[Alan Lacey]

I’ve loaded NTFS-3G from https://www.tuxera.com/

This freeware enables OSX to write to an NTFS formatted disc. It’s a bit slow, perhaps the full version is faster, anyway it works very well under my Leopard.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

My guess is we all select the right ‘horse for the course’ and swop out between multiple apps (and multiple operating systems?) constantly

I’m still occasionally using shake, commotion and combustion despite not upgrading for years.

Alan (uk)

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[Alan Lacey]

So you can’t then? Lame eh?

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Arrrr thanks Adam I’ll try again. Although I’ve got something pretty acceptable now using an FFD.

All those polys certainly slowed the machine up somewhat.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Hmmm more and more complicated.

The above method does indeed produce many more vertices (via the HN) but these are all coplanar with the original geometry. You need to keep the material displacement mapping switched on to access these vertices for animation.

So it’s not a true geometry baking process, but the good news is that these vertices are still capable of PLA.

Thanks Adam

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks for your patience Adam. If only I could get this working it would be ideal, but no cigar yet!

It’s for a teaching medical piece about laser eye surgery for glaucoma. I need animatable iris fibre, high detail. I’ve got just the look I need using the combination of a nice iris bitmap, used for bump and displacement mapping.

I now need to do a small PLA on the iris surface via the magnet tool.

What I did:

Iris material displacemant mapping (type:Intensity, subpolys on, level:3)
Place the iris under a Mograph displacement deformer (emulation mode)
Turn off material bump map (to simplify view)
All looks good
Put under HN tag (subdiv=3 both editor and renderer)
Make editable
still looks good
Turn off mat. displacement map
All gone!

I hope I’ve misunderstood you and are missing a step?

Cheers

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks a lot Adam. I’ll give it a go.

Are there any implications using HN objcet rather than subpolys?

I only needed subpoly level at two so I hope I don’t end up with an impossibly large number of vertices.

Once I get to using the magnet tool on all these vertices, is there any way or turning off the individual vertex display as these mask the object.

Cheers

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

I’d say exactly the same thing, the missing express slot on the 15 inch is such a disappointment. The 17’s a big heavy beast tho’

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

Thanks Guys.

Yes it was those pesky autoselect buttons: They still leave me very confused.

As I am still about searching FCPs or any other helps files. Which is really the reason for the post. I realize it’s not specfically an FCP issue but not being a Machead it’s only the FCP, Motion and Shake forums I visit.

Alan

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[Alan Lacey]

ctlV = Control V – add edit. I’ve sorted that now thanks David, my bad!

Yes it’s searching a string containg a space that I’ve never been able to achieve using Apple Preview with the FCS help files. Searching on ‘add’ and ‘edit’ leads to enourmous lists.

I do realise I’m a total burke here.

Once again thanks for your patience.

Alan

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