Tom Schimmel
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Alan,
This is NOT meant to sound ungrateful or as a reflection of your previous efforts with PI.
While I may be in the minority, ever since Wondertouch has been associated with GenArts, it seems with few exceptions, to be going downhill.
Your product is a great one. Support prior to GenArts buyout was great, there was a lot of give and take between users and developers and a very ‘relaxed’ association between everyone involved.
Now unfortunately, the PI product is at best, ‘FUZZY’ in terms of product development, emitter contributions (again very grateful for the libraries each month).
While you may be obligated to remain obscure as to the future of PI, it is nevertheless, getting a little restless out here, when trying to understand the plans in store for PI.
Love the product, the community at large and simply miss the relationship that was just a couple of years ago, very much an active part of the PI community at large.
It’s fine that their may not be an emitter library contribution each month, but at least post that in the forum, so we aren’t like fish, looking for bait to nibble on.
Thanks again for your great product.
Tom Schimmel
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That’s ok and understandable. It’s just you always put forward great monthly emitters.
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As of 6-24-10 8:20pb PDT it is up again – thanks
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Like Photoshop (among others), PI allows the creation of layers so that you can create “background” images with existing imagery you wish to place.
Depending on how you want your “effect” to work, you can place the background image (with its alpha channel intact) in front of your particle layer or behind it.
You can also apply an avi-type file as a background.
Typically we place PNG files (single or an entire sequence) with alpha information onto a layer as a backbone and manipulate the emitter to the object (helicopter, aircraft, rocket, etc.) including wind (velocity), angles, deflectors and emitter masks to correspond with the object (outline / solid / alpha) being used in the project.
The bottomline, PI does a great job working with existing objects that are imported in. And the final effects are very convincing.
FX Designer, Tom Schimmel