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Thanks Alan – I think you hit the nail on the head – it’s almost definitely the super-emitters…

From a compositional standpoint, the easy bit was overlaying the effects as my friend walks up behind the ‘forcefield’ to deactivate it, but once on the other side and he re-activates – it’s a whole lot harder to mask him moving over the emitters frame by frame … but such is the task i’ve set myself!

Thanks again and kind regards

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Hi Mike

Good to see a fellow Vue user here too – and it’s great to see how you’ve put together these excellent looped examples!

The use of animated textures is something that relatively few Vue users seem to have embraced so far, but PI3 is a fantastic way to get the most out of this feature, as you have clearly demonstrated!

(Thanks Alan for mentioning the 100% Tint solution too)

Look forward to seeing even more great examples!

All the best

Roderick Davies

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Hi

From what I have learned so far, I believe the answer is to use the Zoom property to give the illusion of depth.

Kind regards

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Hi Shadu

Much obliged for the links and especially the PI3 file – I agree that’s a definite good place to start!

Now to try it out >8o)

Many thanks

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Hi

Thanks for your suggestion.

I guess it’s hard to understand the movement of the effect without having seen the B5 series (it’s a very striking effect), however in the animation I made, the PI3 beam I used was static and shot in one direction due to the restriction of it emitting particles. As I mentioned the effect I am looking for would ‘carve-up’ the screen like a continuous linear beam (probably with the effect getting slightly larger toward the camera to get the sense of depth).

The static render is just my 3D interpretation of the effect >8o) – In fact it simply consists of red and purple cylinders inside each other, mapped with a animating lava-type effect, and set to glow, but this is for comparison purposes with the PI3 effect if you were able to view the animation clip, where the Shadow ship attacks the viewer.

Thanks again for looking!

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Thanks – and yes it is indeed ye old faithful Daz Millenium Dragon! >8o)

I’ve been resurrecting a load of old renders from Vue 5 Esprit, adding EcoSystems under Vue 5 Infinite, and of course adding some PI FX – i’m having loads of fun, and the enthusiasm of Elvis and Aharon’s tutorials is quite infectious…

Here is my small tribute to the Murder Mystery genre esp. Lord Peter Wimsey & Sherlock Holmes:

Murder Must Advertise

Kind regards

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Here’s the end result if anyone is interested (i’m a new PI user just to show how easy it is).

Dragon Breath

The Emitter is based upon the FlameThrower Emitter included in Elvis Deane’s “Cooking with PI” Tutorial CD, tweaked and applied against a shield-shaped Deflector and overlaid on the original image.

The Vue 5 Infinite render contained a Dragon breath-object that contained light gels to light the area and give a sense of heat.

Thanks again Elvis! >8o)

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Thank ye kindly Sir – i’d nearly forgotten about pIlusionRender…

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I don’t use QuickTime, but for AVIs I use Windows Movie Maker 2 (free) to simply recombine Audio and Video on a timeline, if this is an option for you?

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Hi Dionysus

First chance to check for a reply – and WOW thank you for that excellent project file!

I’d had a try myself (not as good as yours I have to say), but this was what i’d done for a short Vue tutorial.

https://trelawney.hope.users.btopenworld.com/MustangTutorial.wmv

Many thanks again!

Roderick Davies (UK)