Adam Trachtenberg
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You’ll want to use the transparency or alpha channel of the material for this. Turn on Visible Light>Volumetric in the light’s General tab.
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I’m not aware of any books, but Mylenium has done some excellent and *extensive* video tutorials that are available (free) here at the Cow.
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The alpha probably appears to tile because you have overlapping UVs. That’s why you’re going to have to dig into BodyPaint’s UV editing tools I’m afraid.
As far as the viewport issue, I think that will clear up if you select “stacked materials” from the viewport>display menu.
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If the decal is going on a curved section you’ll most likely have to flatten the camera’s UVs in BodyPaint. Then you can apply the decal material with UVW mapping and used the texture tag’s offset and scale options to place it.
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Are you using r9.x or r10?
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I don’t think HUD properties carry over when you copy an object and paste it into another scene, or if you merge a file with HUD properties into an open scene. But … you should be able to merge your non-whale scene into the whale scene without losing the HUD properties.
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First, set your extrudeNURBS depth to 0. Now you can get the squares (or mostly squares) by going into the caps tab of the extrude object and selecting Type>Quadrangles, and then checking the “regular caps” option. You’ll probably have to lower the width to get a more regular spacing.
Now you can blow it give it some depth and blow it apart with the Explosion fx deformer. This has a spherical falloff, but you can minimize that by scaling the deformer up quite a bit. r10 file is attached here: https://www.3danvil.com/temp/squares_fly.zip
You would have to do some point-level editing if you want to make the object 100% squares.
There are other ways to do this with Thinking Particles or MoGraph, but AFAIK the method I used in my file is the simplest way.
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Never experienced that, but it doesn’t sound good. As far as graphics cards, I think the mid-priced nVidia adapters give you the best bang for the buck in Cinema. 7300 series and up.
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In my opinion you’re better off using a highlight filter like Starglow in AE rather than doing it Cinema.
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[espinoza] “hey
i have a volumetric light pouring through a hole in a surface. the light is rendering very pixelated. i have made omy ouput settings higher, played with the sample distance in ‘visibility’not sure if im missing anything,”
Sample distance is the key to reducing noise in visible lights. Try reducing it further.