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Nick Hamilton
February 17, 2009 at 7:22 pm in reply to: Video playing on a flexing grid of particles

Thanks guys, I’ll have a look into those!
Nick Hamilton
February 17, 2009 at 7:21 pm in reply to: Video playing on a flexing grid of particles

Thanks very much, I’ll have a look into that!
Nick Hamilton
December 10, 2008 at 2:48 am in reply to: Tracking scars on a turning face

I thought the mesh warp would be the best way to approach it, although it still seemed pretty tricky to get it working properly. But I’ll give it another try following your instructions.

Thanks very much Andrew!
Nick Hamilton
December 10, 2007 at 1:23 pm in reply to: My 3D boxes don’t have shadows

Ah yeah, I think I see what you mean… thanks very much I’ll try that!
Nick Hamilton
December 8, 2007 at 5:32 pm in reply to: My 3D boxes don’t have shadows

Hey

Is there a way to set the expression to come in at a certain time, and then stop at a certain time?

I had the boxes keyframed to start wiggling at a certain time, and then progress to a more intense “wiggle” (putting the frequency up), and then suddenly stopping.

Is there any way to do this all via an expression? Say they start wiggling on 10 seconds, progress to a higher frequency up until 22 seconds, and then suddenly stop wiggling at 22 seconds as well.
Nick Hamilton
December 6, 2007 at 9:52 pm in reply to: My 3D boxes don’t have shadows

Oh, I was actually using the wiggle preset, not an effect. So I guess presets in collapsed pre-comps also don’t work.

I’ll try that expression though, thanks very much!
Nick Hamilton
December 6, 2007 at 6:38 pm in reply to: My 3D boxes don’t have shadows

Ah, yes this has worked! Thanks very much!

Do you know why after effects acts like this with collapsed pre-comps then?

I had a position wiggle effect on all of the pre-comp boxes. But I’d rather have the shadows, as the wiggle wasn’t exactly necessary, and I can probably get around it anyway.

Thanks for all your help!
Nick Hamilton
December 6, 2007 at 8:43 am in reply to: My 3D boxes don’t have shadows

I’m sorry, the links are as followed. And yes they are showing material options. I’ve added another one with the lighting options on as well.

https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic1.jpg
https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic2.jpg
https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic3.jpg
https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic4.jpg
https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/lights.jpg

Hope you can help!
Nick Hamilton
December 5, 2007 at 7:40 pm in reply to: My 3D boxes don’t have shadows

Hey, I have looked at everything and still can’t see any problems. I have take some screenshots below of layers in each of the compositions:

https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic1.JPG
This is one of the original boxes, cast shadows are on all of the layers, like this. The box was duplicated and then pre-composed again to make this composition:

https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic2.JPG
As you can see, cast shadows are still on here too. This composition was made after I assembled all of the boxes within the main composition and decided to pre-compose them to save space.

https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic3.JPG
This is the foremost composition. The boxes have no shadows, but everything seems to be alright

https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/pic4.JPG
Here is a screenshot with the boxes not collapsed. The shadows are visible ;\

And below is a screenshot I took a couple of days ago. This was before I pre-composed all of the boxes into one composition. So every box is in the main composition. Here you can see a shadow coming off the structure and onto the back wall:
https://nick.nickhtbh.com/pics/room.PNG

If there are any settings you can see which are wrong, could you please tell me. I still think everything is alright though.

(I’m not a very advanced after effects user by the way… I only started using it last month, so if there are blatant errors, please don’t flame :p).