[Jose Burgos]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “You need to select and copy the keyframes from the nulls in AE and paste them on other layers in AE. You don’t copy the data from maya and paste into AE.
What is DF?”

Yes you where clear.
Crystal 🙂

Digital Fusion.
Node based compositor with a virtual camera finally coming in version 5.
I think only AE is left as a non-node based compositor.
Since I switched from AE to DF, I have never looked back except when I wished it was possible to composite with a virtual camera.

Take care,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “You will need to copy the position, scale, and any rotation for your null objects, and paste it into your 3d AE Layers – do not “replace” the nulls – this will just make your layer invisible.

Hope this gets you moving in the right direction. “

I see you copy and paste the 3D data into the AE 3D layer.
Yes this is what I was looking for.

Wanted to know how you did it in AE so that when the new version of DF comes out, I can compare.

Thank you,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “placed/rotated the text in 3D so that they appeared flat on the floor. BTW – You can set up null objects in Maya to mark where you want your text layer (or any other AE 3D layer) to be. “

This is the part I was hoping for more info on.
You import the Maya camera to the AE camera and then load the nulls from the Maya scene?

Sorry if this seems straight forward but I have not used AE since 4.0 and use DFX+ 4 now.
As you know, the present DFX is not a 3D compositor (will be in 5.0).
So was wondering how AE allows you to load the nulls position and how you use them to allign the text.

Thanks again,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

Question:
The rain on the floor is rendered in 3D using bump mapping and the text is placed using AE in AE’s 3D view using the camera data from Maya and then the rings rendered seperatly are used as a displacment on the text layer in AE?

Thank you,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

Thank you and everyone for giving me all this information.
I have enough data to make a purchase now that I have the graphics card info.

Great bunch of guys you all are 🙂

Take care,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

So what card is the way to go if I get a used dual G4 with 2 gig ram?

Thanks,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

Great link, thank you.

Take care,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

Since it is slow on a Power Book, was wondering how good it works on a dual G4.

Thank you,
Jose Burgos

[Jose Burgos]

OK
I guess it may be better to wait and see what your new version brings before I spend $5K on a Mac and Software 🙂

Take care,
Jose Burgos