[Trouble with fire tutorial (After Effects transparency)]

its working but whats still funny:

as long as i do not import in after effects the rendered version with the old smoke.tga as an animation movie is smoother than with the smoke.tga with an alpha channel.

smoke_old.mov

smoke_new_1080.mov

 

[Trouble with fire tutorial (After Effects transparency)]

rodney, thanks a lot. it looks like the problem was indeed that the picture used has no alpha channel. with your firev18.tga it works fine.

i will now try your smokev18.tga

[Trouble with fire tutorial (After Effects transparency)]

thanks a lot,

i will try your image and check out if it makes a difference.

[Trouble with fire tutorial (After Effects transparency)]

hello,

thanks a lot for your replies rodney and robcat2075. i tried it with the exr. same problem.

untitled0.exr

 

and here a screenshot of the smoke properties

 

the before posted picture with the white background is the one coming out from after effects. it shows apart from the smoke the whole picturelayer of the smokesprite

 

thanks

[Trouble with fire tutorial (After Effects transparency)]

hello,

i have a question on the fire tutorial.

rendering the smoke with a normal background everything runs fine

rendering the smoke without a background with an alphachannel in the first instance looks fine too

but as soon as i import the rendered clip (w alphachannel) into after effects the sprites show up with the pictureframe

i added some screenshots

appreciate your help

 

w background.tiff

w alphachannel.tiff

in after effects.tiff

[from reusable action to keyframeanimation?]

hello,

i have the following problem: how to change from a reusable action to keyframeanimation without changing the reusable action?

e. g. i use the character thom and i drag and drop in the chor "resolute walk" on him. The walk cycle ends at frame 30. then i go to frame 40 and i want him moving his arm. so i change the bicepbone to the place i want to have it. but when i now play the animation the change of the bicepbone affects also the reusable action. i tried also to turn off "hold last key frame" - no results.

what do i have to do to be able to use reusable actions together with keyframeanimations without interfeering each other?

what i want is a smooth change from the end of the reusable action to my keyframanimation

 

thanks

dren0chill

[Render Times]

Athlon (64bit) 3200+

1gig ram

XP home

 

 

DV 720x480

 

tga sequence

fr 97: 0:46

fr 98: 0:41

 

quicktimemov

fr 97: 0:42

fr 98: 0:41

 

 

DV Pal 720x576

 

tga sequence

fr 97: 0:46

fr 98: 0:47

 

quicktimemov

fr 97: 0:46

fr 98: 0:46

[gpu the second]

i´m up to buy a nvidia GF 6600 GT AGP 128 Mb - i´m rather new to a:m, 3d and even nvidia (till today used ATI) - so would this one be a good choice for a:m?

thanks

[software for text-to-speech]

hi smartsaga

i gave a look at the links you posted and it looks like it fits that what i´m looking for

 

thanks a lot

[software for text-to-speech]

does anyone know any good software for mac that makes the computer speak so it could be used as synch for animated characters? i know there is a tool on OSX but i would need something that works in a phonemic way because i need to have the talking in diff languages (italian, german..) - as far as i know OSX only speaks correct in english.