Elvis Deane
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Yes. Save your images out as a sequence of TGA, TIF or PNG files and check the Save Alpha box in the Output Options screen. That will get you a transparent background.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
What codec are you encoding the AVI with, that will affect the final quality of your AVI tremendously. And what’s your intention to use the final footage for (for the web, out to an editing program for broadcast, just to view on your own PC)?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
There’s an old library of lightsabers here, as well as a tutorial on using them on my website (in my signature).
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Elvis Deane!
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Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
What compression codec are you using when you save the AVI? By default, you’re probably saving out to uncompressed, which is around a meg a frame for a 640×480 image size. XVID and DIVX are good ones to save out to for viewing purposes.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Could be a video card driver issue. Do you have the latest certified drivers for your card? Actually, what type of video card is it, and do you get a warning about hardware rendering being turned off when you start up the program?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Velocity is the speed in which a particle will move away from the emitter. In the case of the Crazy Squares, the particles aren’t moving so Velocity won’t do anything.
The Life graph is what controls how long a particle is on screen, and the apparent speed of some emitters is really determined by that due to things like the Color over Life gradient, and the other Over Life graphs. If you were to increase Life with the Crazy Squares, then lower the Number, you’d get a lot closer to slowing down the speed of the overall emitter.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
No, it has to be a line emitter to let you follow the countours of the arm/body/face, with a very low Life.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I don’t think there’s a library that has it, but it’s an incredible simple emitter to make.
Take a blank emitter from the blank library, go into the Properties, check the Intense button, increase the Size by a bit, and maybe adjust the transparency gradient so that it fades in and out. Pick a bit of a colour to match the lights, and you’re ready to go.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
The multi-word ones in the super emitters are generally sequences of different words. So you would make a series of words as separate images and save them with a sequential name like “word_001jpg, word002.jpg, etc” then choose the first one in the series as your particle shape. pI will then ask you if you want to import the sequence.
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Elvis Deane!
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Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I’d be willing to give it a shot if someone posted a video clip somewhere for me to have a look at.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry