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Greg Paterson
April 5, 2006 at 5:10 am in reply to: Feather Blocker Edges?

You can work around this.
Make your first animation with PI and Blocker.
Make a second animation with the blocker moved 1 or 2 or more pixels in the feathered direction you want.
Make a third animation moving the blocker further again.
Three is the minimum, you can use more.

In a NLE or post prod app like AA you can layer the 3 animations giving the layers different transparencies thus creating a feathering of the blocker.

Some trial and error is required to fine tune this process.

Cheers
Greg Paterson
April 5, 2006 at 5:01 am in reply to: Electricity

Something like this:?

Electricity
Greg Paterson
April 5, 2006 at 2:20 am in reply to: Using Video as a Material – Keying?

I would live on my own private Island surrounded by beautiful women … if I had the money.
Same with AA and Combustion ……. $$=nill.
Greg Paterson
March 25, 2006 at 3:58 am in reply to: How to render a single object retaining scene reflections?

Excellent,

Thank you.
Greg Paterson
March 25, 2006 at 3:57 am in reply to: Rolling and oval ball.

Thanks again Bj
Greg Paterson
March 24, 2006 at 12:42 am in reply to: Time for a new monitor – any suggestions?

Hi Alan,

Probably best if you go to a local computer shop and see one in action

What a luxury.
I live in a town of 100k people.
The local computer shops stock a miserable range of computer things.
The next largest town is more than 2000km away so I am condemned to beg for the educated opinions of experienced users on forums such as CC and scrounge through the mountains of conflicting contradictory reviews in hope of enlightenment.

The good side is that I a rarely get fed a red herring here at CC.

Cheers

Greg
Greg Paterson
March 23, 2006 at 6:25 am in reply to: Time for a new monitor – any suggestions?

Hi Albert,

I forgot to ask…………..
How do these Viewsonic monitors go on non-native resolution settings?
My vision is a bit poor and I find that on a 19 inch 4:3 monitor 1280 x 1024 is my limit.

Thanks

Greg
Greg Paterson
March 23, 2006 at 4:11 am in reply to: Time for a new monitor – any suggestions?

Hi Albert,

Is this the one???

VIEWSONIC VA2012W 20″ Widescreen LCD MONITOR

Size: 20 ”
Colour: Silver only
Max Res: 1680×1050
Input: D-Sub, DVI
Contrast(max): 600:1
Brightness: 300cd/m2
Viewing Angle: 140/125
Response Time: 8ms
Speaker: 2 x 1W Stereo
Warranty: 3yrs limited on-site.

How do you find this for animation?
I need to use it with a 3D application (Cinema4d) and NLE.

Thanks

Greg

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Greg Paterson
March 16, 2006 at 2:18 pm in reply to: Light- shadow effect …

Probably not anything to the light rays.
You could put a flash/pulse of light behind the letters in time with the brightest ray emmission, or run a fine line of sparkles around each letter as the stongest ray is emmited.

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Greg Paterson
March 16, 2006 at 5:11 am in reply to: Cloud fly through

You can create several cloud animations in PI with alpha channel, then in a 3d program asign these animations to large planes aranged in a line and then move a camera through the planes.

Greg

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