[Nicholas Toth]

Yeah, you can open r9 files in r8 — but it kind of goes to hell. Textures get lost; and it doesn’t support certain things.
fractals — how can i explain them — a sphere with a sphere on each point of the polygon shape and those spheres with spheres on each point of the polygon shape — goes on and on and on forever..

They are infinite mathematical equations of the chaos theory — AE FLAME generates them in after effects and they look pretty cool but a 3d one is really what i’m searching for.

[Nicholas Toth]

thanks — i have soundkeys and i know how to use it, i just wanted to try something different. maybe write my own stuff, figure it can’t possibly be that hard, and I have a C++ background, it’ll be a little rusty but it could be pretty cool —-

[Nicholas Toth]

Hey do you by any chance have any examples of what you’ve done with it?
Did you track the camera or an object —
I really do appreciate your feedback, b/c this is a 250 dollar difference — and i’m not as rich as ridley scott just yet

[Nicholas Toth]

The magic bullet works great for converting to progressive scan — It does take a lot of tweaking with the de-artifacting though, and runs slow (on my single 1.8ghz G5 4.5 gigs of ram)

[Nicholas Toth]

the tool below the object select tool on the left part of the interface.
it looks like three arrows —
select that and then the move tool and it will move the point of rotation

[Nicholas Toth]

thanks man

[Nicholas Toth]

I just built a small studio using REPTAR GREEN paint from Leows. Just get them to color match REPTAR GREEN, don’t buy the nickelodeon brand, its too expensive. Make sure it is totally flat too, I’m having some problems lighting b/c mine isn’t totally flat.

and don’t forget
8-10 feet away from the green, because it will spill

[Nicholas Toth]

you must change your preferences in Illustrator so your clipboard retains the path data, and copy it onto an adjustment layer in AE

preferences/filehandlingandclipboard/preserve paths — then change the layer from the adjustment layer to a regular layer after you paste in the path.

[Nicholas Toth]

go to:
comp/composition settings

click on the advanced tab and set the render plug in to standard 3d —
it acts kind of funky, objects below an object are projected on top of it — i think

cheers

[Nicholas Toth]

any suggestions for osx?