Adam Trachtenberg
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What version of Cinema are you using? Transparency changed considerably between R10 and R11.
In either case, you should turn off the luminance and color channels and set the color in the transparency channel. That should bring out the bright color.
I don’t know why you are getting artifacts in with refraction unless maybe there’s a texture on an object behind the transparent object, in which case it could be that it’s getting magnified and thus pixelated. You’ll also need to turn on Best AA if there’s anything behind the transparent object because geometry AA doesn’t work through transparency.
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Works here in R11 but I can’t remember when the functionality was added.
btw, you should do the free 10.1 update.
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The default shortcuts for moving forward and back one frame are g and f, but you can reassign them to the page up/down keys if you want using the command manager. There is not shift+nudge function to go forward/back 10 frames, but if you copy these scripts into your Library/Scripts folder you can assign them the shift + page up/down hotketys and have the same behavior as in AE:
https://www.3danvil.com/tutorials/Nudge%2010%20Frames%20Forward.CSC
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If you scale something down really small it can take a lot of scrolling to get it scaled back up. Instead try setting the scale in the the object’s coordinates tab. You can animate it there too.
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Yep, using a target cam will save you a couple of steps.
The plugin is about $63/US and you can find it here: https://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/steadycampro.html
No relation to the seller and all that.
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As a practical matter you’ll probably want to control the camera’s focal point separately from its position, which means not using the align option. What you might want to do is give the camera a target tag and target a null that’s a child of the camera. That way you can animate the null’s position to direct the focal point.
Or if you really want to get fancy buy the SteadyCam plugin which gives you all kinds of controls. Highly recommended.
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You’ll find it in the Exchange Plugins folder that was created when you installed Cinema.
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There are basically two approachs: simulations and constraints.
With the Dynamics module, Thinking Particles, and plugins like PhyRis and Silver Bullet, you can gravity and collision properties to objects. These are simulations so you don’t have precise control over where objects end up.
You can use Xpresso or the Constraint Tag to prevent an object from going below a certain distance on the Y axis (or any axis). This is just clamping position so there’s no bouncing or other automatic animation.
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Did you install the correct AE plugin that came with Cinema?