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[Philip Fass] “Is that any good with 10, or likely to be more confusing than helpful?”
Half and half. It does not cover the new Fcurve editor, layer system, MOCCA3 and a plethora of other minor improvements, but it still contains lots af valid information on all the other functions that haven’t changed.
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yupp. And you need Advanced Render for it to look decent (subpixel displacement).
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Increase the number of rays in the render settings. Echa plane “eats up” one ray iteration befor the ray which determines visibility can pass on to the next layer.
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Parrent a few nulls to your emitter and then simply link your POI and your camera to those nulls using pickwhip expressions.
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[espinoza] “is xfrog just the modeling plug, with no plant library shipping with it?”
No, it’s fully animatable (growth, wind, enthropy etc.) There are 20 or 30 models/ setups shipping with it, I believe, but what you need may not be in it.
[espinoza] “the xfrog plant dvd’s, is that where you get more preset plants?”
Yes
[espinoza] “did that have to be built by hand?”
Parameter animation in the plugin itself.
[espinoza] “we also have a friend that has some poly model trees. would we be able to apply some dynamics – ie, wind, to these objects for natural motion.”
Ditch it. Plant’s have varying stiffness based on the splitting angles of branches and surface areaas of leaves and branches. It’s gonna look like crap or cost you massive work to get it realistic (creating weightmaps or limiting deformer influences). C4D’s Dynamics won’t help you at all.
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from what it looks like the sample tree from xfrog plants, -sweet birch – is a poly model. is that the case with all of them.”No. All models are fully procedural and editable and only represented using Polygons and Spline objects for rendering purposes.
[espinoza] “also with grass – (hair) do i just create a wind object and drag it into forces, or do i need a dynamics tag on the hair object”
Dragging the forces into the list shoudl suffice.
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Go to point mode and select the move tool.
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No. MAX is a proprietary format that can only be opened in 3dsMAX. You need to find someone who can convert it for you, download the 30 day trial of MAX or contact the seller for an alternative version.
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White text on an unstructured background is not going to show any changes in these modes – all pixels are already at their maximum brightness, so there is no way for AE to make them even brighter. Change the text color.
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Like Dave said – PAR correction only kicks in inside AE. External players act dumb on this one and will interpret all pixels as square, hence the distortion.
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No, AE is not multithreaded in many areas and neither are many plugins. For the time being you won’t be able to max out the power of your system otehr than using Nucleo Pro.
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