Alan Lorence
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COW Coin
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1) Name each of your image files as a sequence: image0001.jpg, image0002.jpg, etc.
2) When you add one of the images to particleIllusion’s shape library, it will detect that it is part of a sequence, and will ask if you want to use the sequence. Answer “yes”.
3) Once it’s done importing, select it and “make active”.
4) Make sure that the “random start frame” option is checked at the top of the “particles” page of the emitter properties dialog, and that the frame speed slider is set to “off” (the far left).
Alan.
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Don’t try to record in realtime (don’t use “record position”). Just advance a few frames then move your emitter.
You could also try converting the movie into a sequence of PNG or JPG files. I’ve found that image files load faster for some reason.
Alan.
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Make the one blocker sort of a big “C”, with the C almost closed. Then use a second blocker to overlap the open part of the C and close it.
Make sense?
Alan.
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When I need to batch render projects, I usually just add the first project then save the file, open it my favorite text editor and make changes there.
I also only need to batch render maybe 3 times a year (at most).
I estimate that probably 90% or more of particleIllusion 3.0 users have never used the batch renderer. So it wasn’t something we spent a lot of time on.
You can use some third-party batch renderers with particleIllusion (instead of pIRBatch). For instance, Frantic Films Software’s Deadline.
pIRBatch just calls pIRender with the needed parameters, so any developer looking for a little project can go ahead and write their own batch front end for it.
Alan.
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Are you using particleIllusion 4.0? No, since it hasn’t been released yet. Our schedules were rearranged in the time since that post was made.
We’re not the best at estimating release dates, and we don’t release until we think it’s ready for release.
Alan.
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Yeah, that’s an annoyance, but we won’t be fixing that in pI3. We’re in full pI4 mode now, which has an updated interface, so that most likely won’t be an issue in 4.0.
Alan.