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Mike Yenco
December 9, 2010 at 4:03 pm in reply to: How do I create an illusion of sparkles spinning down around (and behind) an object?

Thanks. Looks like just the info I was looking for.

Mike Yenco
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Mike Yenco
December 8, 2010 at 3:02 pm in reply to: New Emitters updates are not showing up in AutoUpdate

Great. I’m looking forward to 3.0.8.2 (the “current”… well 19 Jun 2009… version is 3.0.8.1). Will be nice to once again have automatic emitter updates working.

Mike Yenco
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Mike Yenco
September 8, 2006 at 2:56 pm in reply to: Creating smooth loops with Particle Illusion and Vue Infinite

Alan,

I see what you mean about some emitters just not looking right at low frame rates. I went to create a waterfall sheet loop to use as an alpha plane animation in a Vue 5 Infinite scene and it just didn’t look “right” (had these horizontal bands running through the waterfall). So I created it at 30 fps (no problem) and then dropped it down to 15 fps in QuickTime… much better 🙂

Here’s how the animation turned out:
https://www.yenco.com/animation23.html

Mike Yenco
YENCO.COM
https://www.yenco.com
Mike Yenco
August 6, 2006 at 12:19 am in reply to: Creating smooth loops with Particle Illusion and Vue Infinite

Oh, there was a minor issue putting the lightning loop together. I have been creating the loops at 15 fps (helps to keep file sizes low) and keeps me in sync with a 15 fps output from Vue, but for some reason the lightning effect in the emitters 03_10 library won’t display anything at 15 fps in Particle Illusion 3.0.3. To get around this issue I doubled the number of frames 180 instead of 90, and set the output to 30 fps (PI had no problem with 30). After the animation was saved out, I used settings in QuickTime Pro to save that animation out with only 15 fps which did the trick.

I haven’t noticed this issue with any of the other effect loops I have tried to put together. Does this just have to do with the way the particular effect was designed (seems to affect the entire lightning section in the 03_10 library) or is this a bug of some sort?

Mike Yenco
YENCO.COM
https://www.yenco.com
Mike Yenco
August 6, 2006 at 12:11 am in reply to: Creating smooth loops with Particle Illusion and Vue Infinite

Well, here we go… here’s the latest rendering using smooth animation loops in Vue alpha planes which were created with Particle Illusion 3.0.3. I’m pretty happy with how this one turned out. Not just for the cool Particle Illusion effects, but the way the rain is actually in the 3D scene and lit when the lightning flashes (accomplished with a couple well timed lights).

https://www.yenco.com/animation17.html

Mike Yenco
YENCO.COM
https://www.yenco.com