Diane Koro
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Wow, I do believe I’ve gotten this to work!!!
(I had posted some attempts that went awry but since nobody responded I’m just going to overwrite it).
Thanks for helping, this is going to come in handy quite a bit (no more faking in photoshop!)…
dk
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I just want the default gradient (left to right) to be 90 degrees, or top to bottom, and the alpha to stay at the default 0 degrees (left to right). That’s all I need done. So its a tube with orange at the top, yellow at the bottom and fading off at the right…see below which I did in psd…
The numbers in Start and End were default numbers when I selected the 3D option…
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hmmmm, pretty sure I did that — twice — but let’s see if third time’s a charm…
Technically I think my issue is resolved as one of the random things I tried was adding a compositing tag to the sphere and unchecking “seen by transparency,” that seems to have fixed it, although I don’t understand the mechanics of that…
I’ve also learned that using the “display -> visibility%” tag was causing lots of problems so I’m in the process of replacing that with just animating the materials, which begs the question, when exactly do you use the display tag?
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Well I uploaded it some time ago but the mods still haven’t gotten to approving it yet…in the meantime (and assuming this post will tak just as long to show up) I’ve determined that its the combination of the transparent sphere and the transparent wrapped text where the problem arises…
I increased the size of the wrapping, here’s how its looking:
…but here’s the scene without the sphere (looks fine)…
…and the sphere with the underlying text (problem comes back)…
I tried increasing the ray depth setting but that didn’t help.
Any thoughts on a workaround?
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Ooops, I typed the above a bit fast, the image is actually the first frame after the frame with visibility at 0%. In addition to the transparency, note how screwey the text on the sphere looks (the letters are ITEC)…I can upload the file if needed.
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yep, that was it (renders fine to avi). I’m all set, thanks for the all the help!
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Tried that…has the same effect…but thanks for the tongue twister 🙂
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But when I do that it changes “abruptly” and not “smoothly”…unless, again I’m doing something wrong…(I drag the blue onto the object and keyframe it, then drag the white onto the same object and keyframe that at a later spot on the timeline)…
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Excellent, thank you!
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OMG I can’t believe it was that easy to fix. thank you!!!
