[Chris Bobotis]

Tudor’s “Aqua Pack” is really neat. It literally turns FreeForm Pro into another plug-in – kinda like Psunami. See: https://reels.creativecow.net/film/freeform-pro-the-aqua-pack

FreeFormPro does things that you just cannot do with other AE plug-ins. – ultimately you should really try it for your self. E-mail me with a demo request and I will set you up.Please mention if you are on Win or Mac and keep in mind that we support GPU’s with 512 mb of VRAM but highly recommend you use a GPU with 1 GB of VRAM or higher.

My e-mail address: chris@mettle.com

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[Chris Bobotis]

Yes. – you would control that part of the effect in Particular.

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[Chris Bobotis]

I believe I saw a tutorial on the web that uses our product FreeForm in conjunction with Particular to this kind of thing with money. In a nutshell, you would create an animation in a pre-comp with the FreeForm on a scan of you favorite currency then use that sequence as a Particle in Particular. Do a Google search for the tutorial.

HTH.

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[Chris Bobotis]

FreeForm is a 3D mesh warp and then some. It is bundled with CS5 but still available through us for CS4 BUT if it were my money and I am assuming you already have a 64 bit computer, then I would upgrade to CS5. This way you get all the goodness of CS5 and FreeForm bundled with it. When you are ready, you can always look at FreeForm Pro for CS5 and higher… FreeForm Pro really kicks… but then again I am kinda biased.

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[Chris Bobotis]

Thanks for chiming in Angie. And you are right… displacement maps are the way to go with the bundled version of FreeForm BUT “FreeForm Pro” offers a lot more control. We expose control points and tangents for use with expressions and trackers (amongst other things) one of the project files that ships with it was created by Dan Ebberts – in that project he manipulates controls points via expressions (very cool). Another project is the floating dice sample. This one is a flat plane that is folded into a dice shape then we use the built in “Generator” to replicate and animate with. Mylenium masterminded that one – very cool. Free project files (over a dozen now and counting) are available at: https://www.mettle.com/Products/FreeForm-Pro.php

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Chris
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[Chris Bobotis]

Roland, thanks for chiming in.

Kevin, I sent you a file that resolves this.

The problem:
The bundled version of FreeForm will not respect user deformations when you change the number of rows and columns. Instead it will snap back to a flat shape. FreeForm Pro does… this is just one of the many things we added to FreeForm Pro.

In your case, you had set 1 row x 2 columns. Default is 2 x 2, so when you reset Freeform to get back to a flat shape from your funnel shape, you also reset it to 2 x 2.

What I did to resolve this:
The trick is to reset and then immediately adjust the rows and columns to 1 x 2. This will respect and create the animation between the flat shape and the funnel because both keyframes now have the same number of rows and columns. As you see in the project file I sent you, this now works.

HTH

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Chris
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[Chris Bobotis]

Looks great Tudor.

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[Chris Bobotis]

@Todd:

Just tried updating manually = same message update not applicable.

Chris
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[Chris Bobotis]

Todd.

Tried updating through Help> Update and got that message.

Will file original bug report right now.

Thanks for the help Todd.

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Chris
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[Chris Bobotis]

Hi Todd,

Just tried updating and I get : Update 10.0.1 not applicable?

Strange!

Chris
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