[Jamie Nimmo]

Glow also depends on the colour of the background and the blur amount for visability. for example, to achieve something similar to the glow effect is the duplicate the layer(or pre-render it out depending on the complexity), add a quickblur, and make sure the blurred layer is above the original and use an ‘ADD’ layer mode. Then just adjust the transparency or add a ‘tint’ effect to color the glow.

hope this helps.

[Jamie Nimmo]

I mean Beam, as in “Effect->Render->Beam” the 2-point plugin. The beam lines connect two circles positions and I guess I need calculate the vector co-ordinates of the 2 points to get the direction and rotate the graphic i.e hand pointing, or arrow head, to point in the direction of the “beam end”

i.e ——->

if anyone has an idea it would be great

[Jamie Nimmo]

I mean Beam, as in “Effect->Render->Beam” the 2-point plugin. The beam lines connect two circles positions and I guess I need calculate the vector co-ordinates of the 2 points to get the direction and rotate the graphic i.e hand pointing, or arrow head, to point in the direction of the “beam end”

i.e ——->

if anyone has an idea it would be great

[Jamie Nimmo]

Okay,
I am back on this project again after we won the job based on the animatic I did before.
I was wondering if there was an “advanced beam” plugin or stroke engine that has position data
for the start and end points????

Or if anyone can add to the point behind the camera problem would be great.
Just working on looks at the moment so if there is any help i’ll try and address it in my comp asap.

Cheers

-Jamie Nimmo

[Jamie Nimmo]

Okay,
I am back on this project again after we won the job based on the animatic I did before.
I was wondering if there was an “advanced beam” plugin or stroke engine that has position data
for the start and end points????

Or if anyone can add to the point behind the camera problem would be great.
Just working on looks at the moment so if there is any help i’ll try and address it in my comp asap.

Cheers

-Jamie Nimmo

[Jamie Nimmo]

I just had a look around and found the 3dmation scripts, but the problem is I have maya V5.5 and it only exports to V6. Damn. If anyone has any other suggestions on exporting 3d camera from after effects to maya 5.5, that’ll be great

[Jamie Nimmo]

or the animated lines tutorial was https://www.creativecow.net/articles/mylenium/line_chart/
seems to be a good way to do it, if you can get it to work that would be great. then will re-build over night tonight to make this thing sweet,

cheers, can’t wait to see how you added the 3rd value for z-space for this.

-jamie

[Jamie Nimmo]

or the animated lines tutorial was https://www.creativecow.net/articles/mylenium/line_chart/
seems to be a good way to do it, if you can get it to work that would be great. then will re-build over night tonight to make this thing sweet,

cheers, can’t wait to see how you added the 3rd value for z-space for this.

-jamie

[Jamie Nimmo]

TTHE ORIGINAL TUTORIAL I WAS DOING WAS THE “ANIMATED MAPS OF THE WORLD”

https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=/articles/mylenium/world/index.html

BUT THEN I TRIED TO ALSO USE THE “ANIMATED GRAPH TUTORIAL ON CRTEATIVE COW AS WELL, WHICH USED A MASK TO DO THE LINES, SEEMS SMARTER, BUT AGAIN COULDN’T GET IT TO WORK IN 3D SPACE

IF YOU COULD GET BACK TO ME CHEERS,
SORRY BOUT THE CAPS LOCK, JUST RENDERING AT THE MOMENT.

-JAMIE

[Jamie Nimmo]

TTHE ORIGINAL TUTORIAL I WAS DOING WAS THE “ANIMATED MAPS OF THE WORLD”

https://www.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=2&page=/articles/mylenium/world/index.html

BUT THEN I TRIED TO ALSO USE THE “ANIMATED GRAPH TUTORIAL ON CRTEATIVE COW AS WELL, WHICH USED A MASK TO DO THE LINES, SEEMS SMARTER, BUT AGAIN COULDN’T GET IT TO WORK IN 3D SPACE

IF YOU COULD GET BACK TO ME CHEERS,
SORRY BOUT THE CAPS LOCK, JUST RENDERING AT THE MOMENT.

-JAMIE