Adam Trachtenberg
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Glad I could help. 🙂
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Try the Wrap deformer in spherical mode.
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Looks to me like you could take the default material, make the specular very short and wide, and maybe change the illumination model from Phong to Blinn or Oren Nayer.
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This would be easiest if you had MoGraph. If so you could clone small visible lights on your character and move them around with effectors.
If not, but you have Thinking Particles, you could do a similar thing using the TP Surface Emitter preset.
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A couple of ways to go about it:
1) Make multiple copies of your sphere and scale each one down very slightly;
2) Use the atom array object. You’ll start with the platonic primitive set to “Bucky”, convert it to polys, melt the edges breaking up the pentagons and hexagons, and drop it under the atom array.
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You didn’t cash the cloth before you animated the cube, did you? Otherwise I can’t figure what it might be.
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Go to Help>Personalize.
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True, Cinema can’t render points. You need at least a triangle in order to render something (not including Hair, Sketch & Toon, or Storm Tracer).
In this case you could distribute small triangles on your sphere, or generate particles from the sphere and use a small triangle as the particle geometry.
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This can be done, but it requires MoGraph. What I would do is:
*Create a MoGraph Sound Effector and load sound file;
*Create a particle>wind object to affect hair;
*Create Xpresso tag and:
-drag in sound effector and wind object
-create MoGraph Sample Effector node
-connect sound effector object port to sample effector’s “Effector” port
-connect sample effector’s strength output to range mapper node
-connect range mapper to wind effector’s wind speed port
-adjust range mapper to get the desired effect. -
Ahh … wellll … hmmm … that’s going to be a little tricky! Guess I shoulda anticipated that one. 🙂
One way you could do it would be to use Xpresso to use the sweep start/end parameters to drive the position of the gradient points, but that’s going to be pretty involved.
And easier way would be to use a texture in place of the layer shader in the alpha channel, and instead of actually animating the sweep, animate the texture tag’s Y offset position. The downside is that you’re not going to get a fade as the lines disappear completely. You can either hide that with spline/object placement, or you can add the effect in post with a little rotoscoping.