John Baum
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Teaching him how to “fish” 🙂
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It seems to have been a combination of the comp size issue and the auto orient as I mentioned earlier. I used the grow bounds effect to fix the composition size problem.
The part there seems no getting around though is when the sticks track to the back of a molecule they jump, since its only a 2d circle.So I altered my design idea and am using the shape as a silhouette. Looks perfect this way.
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Yes.
One thing that i found that helped maintain the illusion is to back the camera waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy back and then zoom in. Since I had auto orient on I noticed in a top view they were all at different angles till I did this.Now it actually look good as a silhouette, not sure if it will ever be convincing when the various parts are different colors.
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Well I went ahead and pasted your code in anyway and it sort of works.
I have the molecules as solids with a circle mask and set to auto orient to the camera.
While the stick definitely tracks the molecule it is not staying connected.
I think I may be expecting too much here..trying to get a 3d look from 2d planes. Things look good from some angles but alot of the time the illusion gets broken. -
Does the fact I am trying to do this in AE’s 3d space change anything? Because when I pickwhip the start point of the beam to the position of a molecule I get this:
temp = thisComp.layer(“center molecule”).transform.position;
[temp[0], temp[1]]And I understand what you are saying about the parenting to the null means the position values of the molecules aren’t going to give me the numbers I need, but since what I have looks so different then the examples you gave I’m not sure of the proper syntax to make the correction you suggested.
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Vegas is notoriously slow at rendering, though I haven’t tried the newest version.
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I tried it several times with the same result. It looks exactly like the screengrab Claus-Peter posted.
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DOH!
Of course thats all you’ll see when your graphics are black and your comps background is black!
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have you tried updating your video card driver? There were cursor issues with some nvidia drivers.
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I use a RAID 5 array as my media drive. It consists of 4 SATA 200GB drives which gives me 600GB of usable space. I also have a spare drive in the array so if one drive fails I simply hit the rebuild button and several hours later(or more depending on how full the drives are)everything is up and running with no data loss.And I have had to use this feature once and was extremely happy I had it.