johnl3d

I did a quick project using a small image ( square with 2px stroke with alpha ) as a group image set to transparency than I turned off with an off/on pose for each group thing.mov gives a wireframe-ish look thng.zip project includes tga file

mateial effector would effect the skeleton also ....it is not selective I see a pose controling material with sprites as the ash or a boolean cutter I wil post a arnie head with that effect later as I am on "lunch" at work right now. Found arnie head with halloween here http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...49&hl=arnie

I vote for the cylinder very quick examples of each in a chor bang.mov bang.zip

I started to post the tutorial as a blog and am not sure if it will work.... take a look and let me know what you think ...I just started so there is not much to read http://johnl3d.blogspot.com/ I'm new to blogging and this site ....give suggestions I also downloaded wink and could try that

As Caroline said the AM files appear as text thats why its a good idea to zipped things when posting

I like the assembly action thanks for posting

I could not get the effect I think you want with sprites but got it close with streaks..thought it worked before with sprites too even tried v14 train.mov TRAIN.zip

Kelley I think you might have a reportable issue. I tried a quick test and it did not seem to be working correctly..will test later to confirm..at work now

I should have animated the turb and had more lights turned on had the light higher etc etc but hey it was just an experiment lighted.mov lighted.zip v15b does render quick

Are you making the patches you want red a group ? You can then make the group red: read Mr Campbell's answer below

Oh no John is trying to animate Did this in about an hour as I could not find more time....therefore a bit rough in places but the thought hopefully is there valentinesday.mov Thanks to all of TWO

Nice Model

you could try streaks this is a real quick attempt--edit tweaked it a little cannon.mov cannon.zip

the few things I tries took some time and with the combination you have it should take awhile

or setup an expression that will do that

I do not see any render hits for animating the material but that also depends on how complicated a material you use I did this quick test and with a three darksim materials the render time on this was about 4 sec per frame where the simpler ones were 1-2 sec per frame gradient3.mov

here is an older version of the same idea only I modified the bike model to animated it abicycle.mov bicycle.zip

gradient material combiner can be use to combine two or more materials but it is great for effects Here is a simple model with a simple material along with a transparent material I set up a pose to have it become visible the great thing is you can distort the model in the chor or action but the pose works as set on the original model in this QT the model on the left is turned upside down in the chor and slightly distorted the model in the middle is the original and the one on the right is distorted more however the pose makes the object appear the same in all gradient2.mov gradient2.zip

There seems to be some questions on using the gradient material and I was thinking of getting together a tut and do a simple project using it This is the sample using the cone primitive gradient.mov gradient.zip any comments or suggetions welcome

Caroline does the cd show you how to make the smiley face material...it uses gradients also

do a search...upper_right you should find an answer here http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showt...=glowing+planet Sorry Eric i 'm at work and can not answer directly

there is a muzzle flash tut around use the search on the top of the forum . Then set up a on/of pose that you can use to set the flash on and off as needed

Not sure what your question is do you want the gun to point at something particular ? Need More iinput!

a jpeg is a iimage load it there and then apply to the model as a decal

If the laser beam is a model set up a pose to vary the length then adust as needed if I have time I 'll post a simple example tonight