[Brian Lynn]

One more thing… once I hit Reset my Null locks itself to the top left corner, and I can’t move it at all! I can rotate just fine, but trying to move it along the X Y or Z axis does not work.

[Brian Lynn]

Or better yet, is there another way to get full 360 sphere spin around a Particular object without having to use a Null to get the longitude axis spin without the flipping that occurs?

[Brian Lynn]

This works great! Now if I can just figure out how to control it as well as I can a camera… lol

Thanks!

[Brian Lynn]

The demon warp one is great! But that’s not it… Andrew has that one posted on his website if you’re really looking for it.

The one I’m thinking of might not even have been hosted here. Basically was taking a photo of a gentleman and creating a grayscale displacement map (I think) based on the natual shape of the face… white on nose tip and working back shades of gray the farther back the round of the face, black at the back of the head areas.

Apply the gradient map to the face image and you could get a creepy partial face turn effect that was fairly realistic depending on how detailed your map was…

The effect he used might not even be displacment which would be why I’m having major issues finding it again.

Thanks for the response!

[Brian Lynn]

Yes, turning off the render multiple frames simultaneously worked wonders for the Zaxwerks rendering.

Thanks to all who helped!

[Brian Lynn]

I’ve learned a bit more of the technical sides of all this and I think you might take a look and see:

#1 are you using OpenGL to render within ProAnimator?

#2 are you running Nucleo Pro?

#3 Edit>Preferences>Multi-Processing, is “Render Multiple Frames Simultaneoulsy” turned on?

Brian Lynn

[Brian Lynn]

Graphics card is a Radeon X1600 mobile with 256 ram on it I believe.

This machine is clean for the most part. I have the Adobe video suite, some AE plugins, and Cinema4D on here. Cinema4D should not be a problem though as it doesn’t even really install, it just runs from its folder as all software should in my opinion. I have a couple other tools on here as well like G-Spot and MpegStreamClip, but again, those run straight from their folders, no real windows style install.

I have used this laptop in the past for gaming, but when I sold my old “work” laptop my “games” laptop got a nice reformat and reinstall of its OS.

I have not tried to rebuild my OS since I installed CS3 and the software mentioned above.

I do keep my drivers up to date, however the latest update from ATi mangled my laptops output, made it very yellow looking, so I installed the latest previous driver back on and got rid of that issue. I use DriverCleanerPro to help keep my driver installs as clean as possible.

Thanks for the idea =)

After Nucleo was mentioned I am wondering if I should go back and turn off the “render multiple frames simultaneously” option for the multiprocessing…

This project is long over but I am realy hoping to discover the real cause so I can prevent this in the future.

Brian Lynn

[Brian Lynn]

I wish it was this simple, but I do not have Nucleo. Unless its there and I don’t know it, but I never specifically installed it.

Thanks for the response!
Brian Lynn

[Brian Lynn]

Spyder with a DX4 out would let you display like that, tall image fit properly to your verticle plasma with no rotation. I’m sure there are others as well, but the Spyder is the one I’ve worked with the most on installed systems. Definately ask about the final playback system and the abilities of the hardware.

[Brian Lynn]

Your steam wants to be what resolution?

Maybe try a scan converter between the computer and the streamer. Folsom’s ImagePro is one of the best, while Sony’s 1024HD is older, softer on conversion, but a lot less expensive.

We steam video from live conferences often and the ImagePro is what we use to make computer video into something sized and ready for streaming.

Brian Lynn