Francisco Cueto
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almost there.
The second approach helped a lot, but i forgot to mention that i have to stick some elements inside this “tree”and the second method basically makes it really hard to render the particles that would go “behind”my element in a different layer since i can no longer use any of the Z tools inside particular.
any more ideas?
-F
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and a follow up on this one since they are sooo similar & yet not quite…
first time poster, long time lurker…
I am trying to animate an emitter going up that is about 1/3 from the left margin. I want this emitter to spin as it goes up, to kinda draw like a xmas tree.
In 3D packages I would animate a NULL going up, then place another null off to the side (the distance between them defines my radius) as the first null goes up I also rotate it about the Y axis and VOILA, the null that’s sitting to the side starts climbing up in a spiral fashion. Then all I need is to animate the second null on its local X axis towards the first null, basically creating a spiral with a decreasing radius kind of thing that looks like a X-mass tree (at least its trajectory)
I tried this setup with particular but no luck. I followed all the tutorials I could and read the very recent thread about this, and I am stumped. It seems that since I am using Parenting, the animation info is not passed along via the expression pick-whip method.
any clues how to go about this? I really dont want to open up the 3d app today 🙁
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FYI: Discreet Smoke systems don’t have a Compressed HD CODEC. matter of fact, they dont use codecs. Nor can u compress anything.
🙁
Frank Cueto
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Yes, V4.9 is installed.
Weird thing is,.. all other quicktimes work, Only QT’s with the bmd codec turn out black BUT with audio.
Would be great to get to the bottom of this, since i am trying to establish a workflow where all finished
spots that we keep on a bmd powered video servered can be transfered to the video ipod for our sales staff.thanx
Frank Cueto
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nah, i use XP
I used qt pro for the export, and EVERYTHING that goes thru it plays perfect on my machine.
Except movies that are encoded with the BMD codec.F.
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no ideas on what might be up with this???
at least who is to blame, or BMD or Apple?