Jon Okerstrom
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Hi Jim,
It looks like everything is working as it should – note how that particular present is making the curved edges and bevens shine. It’s also having an effect on the front faces of your object – but in a more subtle way. If you watched a rendered animation, you would see how the different parts of the reflection map affect the front surfaces.
A chrome look is best accomplished by using a black base color and a black and white reflection map with the reflectivity cranked up.
A couple of tips:
It’s not necessarily a good thing to use the same reflection map for edges and faces. experiment!
Make your own reflection map out of colors in your scene – it will help the animated 3D elements appear to be part of the scene.
Jon
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Hi homers,
Have you tried a clean install?
Jon
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Hi homers,
Have you tried a clean install?
Jon
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Hi Keith,
You could always render the animation as a series of overlapping movies and use warping plug-ins to make the jiggle. It would be a different look but might just work.
Jon
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Hi Keith,
Yes, it’s possible to create wiggling text. My suggestion would be to do it with layercycling.
Essentially, you make the text on an Illustrator layer. copy the text into another layer, deform it the way you want, then use Illustrator’s tweening tool to create the desired number of intermediate steps. Put each of those steps on individual layers. What you’re creating is an electronic “flip book.” Each layer in Illustrator is like a page in the book. Going from layer to layer at speed will give you the illusion of text that deforms over time. The frame rate and number of frames determines how long it takes.
Does this help?
Jon
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David,
Tell us more about the system, fonts (names and kind) and your version of ProAnimator.
As an alternative, you can turn your text to outlines in Illustrator… doing this successfully might tell us why the problem is happening with PA.
Jon
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Hi Ryan,
You can do the same thing in the stand-alone version. Just create the black and white transparency map in photoshop, save it as a tga and choose the image in the transparency channel in the material editor.
The real challenge for you may be getting the cross shape to look right. To help you, we’re going to need more detail on how you made the egg shape. Does it have a flat front face with a custom bevel, or is it just a bevel applied to a very small circle? The answer will determine what kind of image map you’ll need to make. If you’re using and edge and a face, you’ll need one transparency map for the face and another for the edge, to make the cut-out complete.
Does this help?
Jon
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That’s one way to do it, but I’d need a bit more information to determine why they’re not all moving in unison.
Try sending me the project file. jokerstrom1 (at) mac.com.
Jon
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Hi Rocco,
People often apply lighting effects like Trapcode Shine to ProAnimator and Invigorator movies to get that “light rays from behind” kind of effect. Typically, After Effects is the hosts for that.
If you don’t have AE, your editor may accept a plug-in that creates a similar effect.
Does this help?
Jon
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The movie helps. Are all of the objects on the same object track? It looks like they’re not and that there’s a slight difference in the motion.
If you moved all of the objects to the same track this should fix the problem. There are other options if you need to keep them in different tracks.
Jon