can a gradient be added to a mask? I opened someone else’s project and thought I saw an effect or something on the mask but was in a hurry and didn’t have time to look at it. Usually I make a new shape and put a gradient on it and use luma matte on the object below that I’m masking. So the question is can I add a gradient or effect directly to a mask?

thanks Justin here is the file.

Thanks for your reply Justin
I watched another tutorial and I was missing a part of unwrapping and now it’s better but how do I straighten it out? I’m going to put a bunch of text on the plane. attached is where i’m at you can see the text and map is warped.

I know the very basics of UV mapping but haven’t had to do anything to complicated. Now I have ran into something I have no idea what to do. None of the projections help me much attached is a photo of the surface I need to map. I watched a couple tutorials but they didn’t seem to solve my issue.

I have been trying to figure out how to fade clones and watched a couple videos fading clones on a linear path using the mograph color shader (seems like an old tutorial, there was check boxes missing) but how would you fade clones on say a helix? What I’m trying to figure out is how to fade the first or last few clones sequencely. lets say…

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I’m trying to clone a bunch of objects that have different dimensions and want the gap between every object to be the same distance edge to edge. looking at the clones it looks like they are equal distance from center point to center point. Does anyone know how I would achieve this?

Thanks so much for your help Jim

I misunderstood the loop period and now realize turning it up higher is actually slowing it down. For some reason I was thinking the opposite 2 loop period would mean it looped twice and came to a stop. turning the loop period to 5 is perfect. Now ill add this to the rest of my project and I think it’s done.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/pnqvge4fouibeb4/noise_speed.zip?dl=0

ok I put it in drop box

I’m not sure where to upload a file on this new site now. I see attach a photo but the upload linking is gone now.

now ive run into one other problem I have animation speed set to 1 and I want to slow the animation down but when I put any value under 1 such as .3 it isn’t doing anything. If I set the animation speed above 1 it is speeding it up. Can I not go slower then 1 animation speed?

Well what do you know that fixed it. thanks for your help Jim.

I have a random effector on a cloner effecting the Y axis. I added a shader field and made it noise. I tried adding 1,2, 100 whatever to the animation speed and nothing happens. I know the shader is working because I can see the objects moving around when I adjust contrast, scale or other properties but I don’t see anything happen when I change…

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I have a multishader on some cloned sphere and I want to make one of the individual spheres a specific color. I tried using the shader effector but its not working over the multishader.

Thanks again.

After I posted this I was fiddling around and moved that texture to the front and that did indeed fix the issue.

The caps and bevel work but “S” for shell isn’t working.

Thanks Sam

I’m still in R19 so I used the abbreviations you posted in the screengrab. the link to the manual I can’t seem to find the list of the polygon selection abbreviations. that screengrab you posted where did that come from R22?

I was watching a video on something else and noticed someone had 2 textures on an extrude. one for the cap and one for the sides of it. how do I do this?