[Alan Lorence]

It seems that if you bought the download version of pI3 for Windows, you didn’t get this library. It was on the CD… there may be another library or two that was on the CD that you didn’t get with the download version either.

I’ll figure out which libs are missing and put them on the website. I’ll post when they’re available.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

I hope to have it ready by the end of the month (August). The only reason it might not be ready at that time is if there are any serious bugs (crashes) found with pI3. I plan on having pIRender and all of the missing features in pI3 for OS X released by the end of September at the absolute latest.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

There are no posted updates for the OS X versions of pIllusion (SE or 3.0) at this time.

If there’s a specific problem you’re having, email support at wondertouch and let me know what the problem is.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

There are a few known crash problems that I’m working on, but I can’t tell if you’re describing one of them or not. Email support at wondertouch and give me as much information about what you were doing at the time of the crash as possible.

Also, if you can duplicate the crash, please send me the steps needed.

Finally, sending me the crash log is always helpful. I can give you more details on doing this when you email support.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Did you look at the “Interface” library that Elvis has on his site? I think there’s something in there that might be what you need.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

Thanks Shawn, now I just need your payment details so I can process your order for 1 million licenses of pI3. Shipping might be pricey though. 😉

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

You can’t do that “puzzle piece” explosion with pIllusion. I think AE has a built-in effect for that… is it called “Shatter”?

pIllusion AE will be released sometime later this summer.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

We actually started working on the Mac version before we started working on the AE plug-in, so the release order is as-expected.

We are also disappointed that we didn’t release at the end of June, but if it’s not ready, it’s not ready. It has been an exceedingly complex undertaking, much more so than we anticipated.

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

There have been 2 “man on fire” examples. The first was of a “human torch” flying in front of the camera 3 times at different distances. That one just used one of the fiery smoke trail emitters on top of a 3D animation of the figure “flying”.

The other example was of a man doing an animated “kick”, and used the area emitter mask option to create the flame particles on the man’s body only (using the alpha channel of the 3D sequence to define where the particles are created)

Alan.
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[Alan Lorence]

As far as I know, Autodesk/Discreet is not interested in upgrading the particle engine in combustion. I haven’t heard from them in over a year.

Alan.
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