robcat2075

At the show, was that displayed with multiple projectors?

Is that the Flying Spaghetti Goddess?

I also just noticed an orange nail near the front that decides to flip itself at about 0:32

That would be the "bubbling" I mentioned. Yes, it is undesirable. The lighting is the default setup but I turned off the "Key" light and the "Fill" light and used Ambient Occlusion (AO)

The above were originally in another thread but I am moving them here so that more people may see them...

more nails! The first one has the "damping" set to 0.1 and there is quite a bit of bubbling in the nails even after they should have come to rest. The second one has damping set to 1 and there is less bubbling but it might also be because the nails didn't build up such a deep layer. Notice that the motion only happens when nails are on top of other nails. Single nails on the ground stay put after they stop moving. The third one is amusing for the one nail that gets somehow launched high into the air. LessDampingMoreDampingBigLeap.mov mp4 version: LessDampingMoreDampingBigLeap.mp4

As 'matcap' is a term trademarked by another company (Pixologic) I'm not sure what the rules of usage/distribution are but perhaps that might be why Hash Inc wouldn't distribute the plugins. That's interesting. Would a name change fix that?

YOu need to have the matcap shader in your shaders folder. Try checking your v16 or v17 folders for it.

I changed the point of the nail from a small ring to just one CP and that sails through the simulation much faster even though there's many more nails here... ColoredNails.mov mp4 version: ColoredNails.mp4

Go to the tutorials link in my signature and look at the "Modeling" section. There are several tutorials that may be useful to you, especially the first two.

A lathe outline should only be on one side of the axis. It will get swept 360° around the axis to make the other side when you lathe it.

I dropped a box of nails the other day and wondered if I could do something like that in A:M. I kind of like how these cloth objects seem to be more aware of their true shape than the Newton ones do. They do indeed bend. I'm finding that the stiffer cloth is set to be , the harder it is for the simulation to finish successfully.

Nails made of simCloth... naildrop03b.mov mp4 version: naildrop03b.mp4

A 32-bit number can distinguish between 4 billion+ values instead of 256. In computers that is typically +- 2,147,483,647 Floating point means it can use that precision in different scales. It can draw a billion levels of depth between 1cm and 2cm or it can draw a billion levels between 1 billion cm and 2 billion cm and do it all in the same image if it needs to. A 32-bit floating point number is big enough to represent a pentillion light years in centimeters and small enough to represent the width of the smallest atomic particle at the same time, too. The upshot of all that precision is that you never have to scale a 256-depth depthmap represent a certain distance from near to far. 0 is zero but what is 256 in real-world units? 10 feet? 50 feet? a mile?

OpenEXR is the right way to make a depth map, there's no way an 8-bit map will be good enough. AE can be configured with a text file to read in the OpenEXR buffers automatically, so that should be the standard way to work rather than a work-around. Tell us more about this!

I bet that will be a good novel.

Doe AE not allow you to use an OPENEXR depth map? A:M can make those. If it's a matter of an object entering from out of the frame, you could widen the camera view by a number of pixels equal to the width of the blur and then crop the render back down to the desired size.

I've always wondered if A:M's fast Depth of Field, the DOF you get if you have Multi-pass OFF, could be modified to allow greater blurring. It does what it does well, but only up to a small amount of blur.

Another possibility causing the bad result is doing a lathe when the "center" CP is either exactly on the center axis or crossing past it. The center CPs of the lathe shape should be just a hair short of reaching the center axis.

Excellent work!

I presume this is about multi-pass DOF and not the fast DOF?

If you could post one of the bad ones with the decal for it someone could look at it.

Can you show an example? For that case I would suggest doing the lens flare as a separate pass with everything else in the chor black and all other lights off and then composite that with a flareless render.

Beautiful work! I wonder if maybe a crow is too-often used with Poe?

I presume you are the key creative behind the GIFs that headine the forum. I enjoy seeing them and look forward to new ones!