[Alan Lorence]

There is a bug in the Background Image dialog that always shows the “end frame” as the last frame in the sequence. If you change it to a lower value and click OK, the value will be used.

When you open the dialog again, it will show the wrong value, and I think you need to change it again to whatever value you need.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Select a single image, and if pIllusion detects it as part of a sequence, it will tell you. It’s pretty particular about naming though — the sequence must be in the format filenamexxxxxx.etx Where “xxxxx” is a number sequence that uses leading zeros. For instance, test0001.tga and test0002.tga make a sequence.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Have you checked the quickstart page?

https://www.wondertouch.com/quickstart.asp

Image, sequence, movie — pIllusion refers to them all as “background images”.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

You can’t add attachments to a post, but you can include references to files on a server. So if you can upload your files somewhere, you can include a link to them in the post.

You can also embed an image into a post, but again it’s just a reference to an image file on a server somewhere else. For instance, if you have found an image of an explosion that you want to show people, you can embed it here:

To do this, copy the image address, then click the little camera icon above (between the “U” and “L” icons), then paste the image address in.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Do the final render in pIllusionRender. On Windows, run it from the Start – Programs – particleIllusion 3 menu.

On Mac… pIllusionRender isn’t released yet. Hopefully in the next couple of weeks.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

I would say use it whenever you have “Soft” edges on particles.

Aharon is better at this subject than I am.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Use “regular” instead of “high-quality” motion blur. I’m trying to figure out why some people are having this problem with HQ MB.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

I honestly do not know which is better for pIllusion. The fastest card I have is the GeForce GO 6800, and it’s quite good for pI3. The 2 solutions you mentioned are even faster (I think), so I doubt you’ll be disappointed with either.

A few years back I was seeing better performance from “game-level” cards than I was from the expensive DCC cards, but I don’t think that’s an issue any more.

I do know that any card that has excellent performance with games will have excellent performance with pI3 though. I personally wouldn’t spend $1200 on a card just for pI3. If you have other DCC apps that would benefit, then yes, but for only pI3 those cards are probably overkill.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Why is working with an image sequence instead of an AVI a pain? Every application I know that supports movies and image sequences makes no distinction between the two. Once you load an image sequence into the application, you can’t tell the difference between it and a movie file.

Here’s how you do it in Premiere Pro:

https://www.animationsforvideo.com/html/imptsapp.htm

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

In case people are wondering, Matt contacted me off-forum about this, and we determined that the SIT file was the problem.

I’ll have to switch these files to ZIP, since the ZIP version worked fine.

Alan.
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