Ron Lindeboom
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It is one thing if a leader or a member *offers* an AEP file for people to explore. It is quite another to *regularly* push on people for them. That is why I closed your last account. We like to maintain a sense of balance and decorum here at Creative Cow. These leaders are volunteers and they offer a lot of ideas and support for our members. Those who persist in pushing on them beyond what is reasonable and respectful of their position as volunteers, find their accounts closed.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Arooonfx,
I have shut off your previous account because you pushed on people too hard by asking that people give give project files or do your work for you. This site does NOT condone such things and I will ask that you actually *read* people’s responses like Chris’s and do what they suggest rather than regularly ask people to send you project files or do your work for you.
Chris and the other leaders here are volunteers and were they to start doing projects for people, they would never get anything else done. There are so many people here that if people thought that they did this, they’d have no time of their own — they’d be doing project files all the time.
Thanks for listening,
Ron Lindeboom
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Courtesy of the Cow’s Search Engine as found in the 2005 Archives…
https://www.creativecow.net/forum/read_post.php?postid=110588257161183&forumid=2&highlight=Ayato%2C22&archive=_2005|11|10
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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You may wish to try this in the Cow’s 3DS Max forum which is far more likely to have someone hanging out there who can address more 3DS Max-centric questions. Just a thought…
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Mike,
When I need to find a song and have a lyric line, I use Google and type an entire phrase and see what comes up. I usually hit it first time.
Ron Lindeboom
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Hi Chris,
Eric has been working on the auto-mailer today. It’s about done and you should see it return either tonight or tomorrow at the latest.
Best always,
Ron Lindeboom
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Cyclonist was arguably the most diverse and full-featured particle system of its time. It was a little rough to get your brain around as it had so many sliders and settings and it could create nearly all of the effects that later were spun off as pre-set effects that you see in DigiEffects Delirium. But in Cyclonist, you were free to import any and all elements you wanted and could use the engine to replicate just about anything you could think of. It was deep and powerful but it was also quite daunting to the person first opening it. Luckily, I knew the designer and used to talk with him regularly and so when I’d get lost, he always would say: “Oh, here’s how you do that…” One of the oddities of the program was that while it was a particle system, it also mimicked many of the paint engine effects that were popular at the time due to films like “What Dreams May Come”. It didn’t handle paint like the paint plug-ins but did it in a way that was quite cool and allowed you to come up with things you never would be able to do had it not been a particle system at its heart. As I recall, Chris never ported this one to Windows and it was a Mac-only program.
Ron Lindeboom
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DigiEffects Cyclonist has always been one of the plug-ins that most people never grasped. I loved it. I used to talk to Chris Athanas of DigiEffects about it all the time and he’d laugh and tell me that “you and 20 others are the only ones who ever liked or understood what it was.” It was one of the most powerful plug-ins I ever used but it is no more…
If you have a copy, you either need to keep an older machine and copy of AE around to run it when you need it, or let it fade into the haze of memory…
Ron Lindeboom
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That’s rare, Rory. I have no idea what happened. Still, we do not want this forum to become filled with Demo Reels posts — the odd one here and there is okay but we’d like to keep the lion’s share of them on the Demo Reels forum.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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Please keep in mind, Rory, that we have a Demo Reels forum here at Creative Cow and those who like to interact on people’s demo reels, tend to frequent that forum and you are likely to often get far more responce using that forum.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom