Alan Lorence
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The latest version requires a new serial number. Please contact support at genarts dot com.
It will fix the “freeze at splash screen” problem, as that’s related to the old-style licensing.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
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In pIAE you can’t edit the shapes (images) used for each particle. You need to use the standalone app for that, save the emitter into a library, then load it in pIAE.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
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GenArts, Inc.
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Do you have the latest version of pI3? Check this page for latest version:
https://www.genarts.com/support/downloads/particleillusion/standalone
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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We may have future plans for the Pro Emitters.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
If you just downloaded the trial version, it shouldn’t watermark.
Plus the watermark should be a red X, not small grey squares.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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I should mention that a scanner is ideal because it lights the object from the front. That’s key when creating particle images that will rotate. If the object is lit from one side, rotating it kills the illusion.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
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There’s no way to change the size of the graph window keys unfortunately. You can use the up/down arrows to move between the keys in the current graph, but this doesn’t really help if you want to drag the key positions.
It *is* useful if you want to delete the key (using the context menu or key shortcut) because the context menu actions work on the currently-selected key — you don’t need to actually r-click on the key.
You can also use the “n” key to enter a numeric value for the selected key instead of dragging.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
So the frame with no particles has a solid (255) alpha channel, but as soon as a particle is drawn the areas with no particles go to transparent (0) ?
That doesn’t make any sense. What alpha channel settings are you using? Try the “run with software rendering” option in the Start menu and see if that fixes it. If it does, you need to update your video drivers.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
If I remember right, Lagarith won’t save alpha until you configure it to. In the pI dialog that allows you to select the codec, click the “configure” button (or whatever it’s called) after selecting Lagarith. Then make sure that the codec is set to output alpha (RGBA).
Then checking “Save alpha” should actually save the transparency information. You can test it by bringing the rendered video into a new pI project as background image, changing the background color of the stage to something other than black, and you should see the transparent areas.
If it’s transparent in pI but not in your editor, you’re missing something in your editor.
Premiere and every other NLE should be able to load a PNG sequence as a video.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com -
Choose an output format that supports transparency, like PNG image sequence, or use an AVI codec that supports it, like Lagarith or HuffYUV. You could try “uncompressed” but it may not work and creates HUGE files.
Then the “save alpha” option will be available. After doing this you won’t need to use your NLE keyer.
Alan.
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Alan Lorence
Product Manager
GenArts, Inc.
http://www.genarts.com
http://www.wondertouch.com