[Trelawney]

Thanks Soniclight

Good tips thanks. These were among my first few attempts with PI3 last year, but referenced mainly for the moving blocker component. I will try your suggestions moving forward.

A old college friend of mine is now Head of Music – he likes to use some of my clips so he can teach the kids at his school to score music over visuals. This was an added bonus to have ‘Sir’ in a clip – I was holding the camera.

The garden was part of Cliveden – a stately home near me in the UK – often used in films, as Pinewood Studios is not very far away.

Regards

[Trelawney]

I’ve found blockers to be really handy on still images as well as animations:

https://TrelawneyHope.co.uk/DragonCoast.png

I’ve only tried blocking on a couple of simple video tests, and whilst far from perfect, it did add complexity when I started adding points over frames.

https://TrelawneyHope.co.uk/Forcefield.html and

https://TrelawneyHope.co.uk/Halo.html

I think I might try motion tracking in future, and try pasting the position data into the blocking position to see if this works…

Kind regards

Rod Davies (UK)

[Trelawney]

Nice addition Alan!

Any chance the Catalog can also be auto-downloaded to make for easy emitter browsing inside PI3? (*cough*PI3 Bridge has a certain ring to it) >9o)

[Trelawney]

Hi Soniclight

I work at MS and help to manage and support EMEA vendors (tools & infrastructure). I just wish some of our vendors and customers were as informative and constructive with their tools reports as you have been – that’s really good to see, so 10/10 for effort! >8o)

Not intended as a plug, but I also personally find TechSmith’s SnagIt and Camstasia are great tools for capturing bug reports when I beta certain well known 3d packages (hobby rather than work here) – Great for demonstrating and annotating any issues (or demonstrating techniques).

Kind regards

Rod Davies (UK)

[Trelawney]

Hi Carlito3113

The Red Dot on the PI3 Toolbar (Save Output) allows you to save the frames in a number of formats. This is different to Save As that saves the PI3 project.

Depending on your needs (AVI or PNG sequences to keep Alpha/Transparency) are popular as you can then composit sequences in apps such as After Effects.

If you use AVI, you can use any Codec you have installed (such as DivX etc).

Saving for Web I guess you can use Flash to create a SWF or better still FLV.

(Just my personal prefs here)

Hope this helps!

Kind regards

Rod Davies (UK)

[Trelawney]

Hi there

I don’t know if this applies to PI SE, but does this help? :

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/rabinowitz_aharon/pi3_ae7.php

Regards

Rod Davies (UK)

[Trelawney]

Thanks Alan!

sparkles smoke 10b does indeed look good – you know what they say, practice makes perfect 😉

[Trelawney]

Hi Alan – I received your e-mail, and am all sorted now, thank you.

Kind regards

Rod

[Trelawney]

Hi Alan

I RAS’d into work to re-send my e-mail from there, but to help you troubleshoot, i’ve included the returned messages from both e-mail and form to help you troubleshoot any ISP blocking.

No urgency on my main e-mail though – i’m rebuilding my apps bit by bit this week, and transferring PI3 to a PC that will finally do it more justice than my current one 🙂

Kind regards

Rod

[Trelawney]

Hi Alan

I’d missed the E-Contact Form under “Company” – i’d been looking under “Support” – d’oh

Ok – I pasted my e-mail into the contact form with my contact details .. and it bounced back too 🙂

I was contacting support as i’ve rebuilt my main PC and believe I need to contact Wondertouch Support from my Registered e-mail re: Vista and PI3 re-activation?

I won’t include my SN or PO for obvious reasons here (/hears collective …awwww)

No worries, if you need I can re-send from work tomorrow (- I hope you don’t block microsoft.com too!) 😉

Cheers