Joseph M. morgan
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I would have been embarrassed if one of these had been it. A wiffle ball is a softball sized plastic ball with holes all around it. It’s essentially the swiss-cheese of balls. Here’s a pic (not mine and I hope the owner of the pic doesn’t mind)
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Never mind…. I found the answer right here… just didn’t get the search right the first time…
https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/855798#855804
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Thanks Brian and Adam… got it… it took a while to “undo” all my previous, but failing, attemtps to get it to work. for some reason, the image I am using required me to use inverse volumetric… but who cares…
Thanks…
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Hmmmm… I’ve tried every combination of projection settings with no results… Is there anything I need to do with the light itself, other than dropping on the texture?
Because of yours and Brian’s answers, it seems my approach must be too naive to succeed. This is what I’ve done.
I have a spot light with “Visibile Light” turned on. For now, I’m just using a single frame of the video clip as my texture. That bitmap is sitting in the transparency channel of a texture, which is on my spotlight. The light “beam” doesn’t change at all, unless I turn on Noise. But then, it isn’t the noise from the material, it is the noise from the noise settings… which makes it look more like a fog or diffused smoke rather than the streaks one would expect from light beaming through a film strip.
Am I missing something, or just not explaining myself well. Because I’m beginning to think I might need to create a cone around the visible light (or instead of the visible light), and put the texture on the cone stretched really far horizontally to simulate the streaks I need.
Joe
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I use an HP 9000 series. It’s a dual core AMD 64 bit (Turion TL-64) system with 2GB ram and the “cheap” NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150. I did have to order it from HP directly since I wanted the SVGA+ (highest they offered) screen.
I use C4D and CS2 on it just fine.
Paid about $1200 over a year ago… so you can get a more powerful machine today for the same price.
Joe
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File “File Exists” error happens in similar fashion. You go to burn/transcode, and it churns all the way to the end and then stops with “File Exists” and that’s it.
Though that’s not the exact error you got, it might be a similar symptom. If deleting the media cache files solves it, then I would suspect it might be the same error, just maybe from slightly different versions of Encore.
Anyway, glad you got it working.
Joe
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Sandra,
I know you’ve solved the issue, and I’ve read the whole thread. I’m wondering if this might have the same solution as the “File Exists” error some have been getting.
I noticed you saved the file under a different name and built successfully from there.
I believe your media cache files might have been corrupt. Next time, try closing Encore and making a backup of your project. Then go into the directory(folder) Encore typically creates where your project is located. It is usually named the same as your project.
Under there you will see two other folders, one of which has the word “cache” in it. Delete the entire folder.
Restart Encore and retry the project.
Keep us posted.
Thanks
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Brian,
Did you ever solve this problem?? I have strangely the same issue, and I just created a brand new project, went through all the suggestions in this post… but I still hear no sound on preview….
Joe
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OK… I finally got it… it takes quite a bit of playing and paying attention to the mapping mode to finally get it… but it’s so easy once done.
So.. now… what the best thing to buy? I guess I could spend hours making trees, bushes, grasses and plants.. but there’s got to be something to “pay” for those hours!
Joe
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Funny Brian.. but honestly, you’ve been incredible help to me since I’ve started to use 4D, and suspect you’ll save my butt 100 more times to come.
I really appreciate you.. and the Cow….
Thanks!