Elvis Deane
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That’s an emitter whose animation mainly comes from the Over Life graphs, so increasing the Life in the Puffs particle type, and then reducing the number should get it to slow down.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
If you render out of pI as a .tga sequence, your particles will have an alpha channel. If its not in the dropdown when you’re choosing a format to render to, you can just type .tga after your file name and it will allow you to save alphas in the Render Settings screen.
Check out the Frameserver portion of this tutorial as a way that has always worked for me to get clips from Vegas into pI with no hassles.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
It’s a capitalization thing. The libraries with capitals are listed first, then the ones that start off with a lower case character appear.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
No, there’s no way to open il3s in SE, but all the recent libraries have been converted to iel files, so there’s no need for it. Some emitters aren’t available in the converted libraries, namely ones that use features only available in version 3.
3 has a lot over SE. Super Emitters, Forces, multiple layers, Get Color from Layer.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I meant what is the source of the video you are trying to load, did you capture it from a miniDV camera, is it something you edited together in an editing program?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
What editing program is the video coming out of, and what compression are you using? I used to have this problem if I’d import a clip in from Vegas that didn’t have certain things checked, and many of those options are available in other editing programs. If you check out this link under Uncompressed AVI, you might get some ideas of what to try.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
The biggest factor that will affect this is the size of the particles. The bigger the particle, the more it will break the illusion, since particles born at the very edge pixel of an opaque part of the background image will be born hanging over the edge of your logo.
Motion Randomness too will affect it, especially if Frames to Preload is set to something high, since then the particles have already been born and are going off in all directions.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Did you install it with your anti-virus on? That’s about the only other thing I can think of that might cause a problem.
Alan might have some better insight into this than I do.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
Not sure if this will work, but try running “reset default settings” from the pI start menu group, then try running the program again.
There’s definately no compatibility problem with pI and Windows Media Center, I just installed it on my new laptop a month ago.—
Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry -
I have a GeForce 7300 with 256mb on my PC, and it works great with pI. Though it was about 3 years since my last video card upgrade, so it’s hard for me to say how a 6600 would compare to a 7300.
Could it just be a driver issue? Have you tried the latest certified drivers?
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
Wilbur of Wumbaberry