Tom

Interesting...thanks!

Thanks ...I'll check it out!

Thanks for the suggestions! The first suggestion sounds especially interesting. Can you demonstrate how to use an expression to link a slider to the Chor Glow Properties? That is beyond my ability... Tom

Another question which is unrelated to our discussion yesterday......but it has me stumped so I thought I would put it out there. I'm trying to create a pose slider to turn on a street lamp. Sounds fairly simple...I want the slider to make the outer" lens" of the lamp become about 35% transparent and I want the inner bulb to start glowing...all just by sliding the pose slider. The problem is the Glow feature seems to only have parameters that become visible WHEN you are rendering in the choreography.....so how do you set up a pose slider when the parameters you want to tweak only appear when rendering? many thanks for any insights... Tom Glow-ON.prj

Thanks Rob!

I have uploaded a very simple project which might present an area of discussion on Saturday Live. I am familiar with setting poses for "percentages" but I am less knowledgeable about Poses that are "On/Off". I am wondering if the topic for discussion can be adding an On/Off pose to this simplistic arm with one Pose being IK and the other Pose being FK..? PoseTest.prj

great insight! BTW- I dropped a note to Steffen and asked if there was a way to make Streaks cast shadows...will post his reply if there is.

very good...thanks for the reply!

Rob- I signed into the forums on my phone and didn't remember my user name password so it listed me as the guest... shown above... however, I would be interested in your personal opinion of when to use streaks and when to use sprites? What is your view of their strengths and weaknesses?

Thanks for the reply Rob! What is interesting is I was fooling around with trying to get streaks to cast shadows and I clicked on the little red "X" to opened up the drivers connected to the Streaks in the Choreography window and all of a sudden it looked like it was giving me the option to choose, "cast shadows" in the properties window...but when I went back to look for it, it had disappeared and I was unable to find it again...so maybe I was hallucinating or something. I will remember your method for the future but it might be a nice feature to have streaks cat shadows like the other particles.

Hello- I know that the particles listed as "Blobbies, Hair, Sprites,and Fluids" all have a "Cast Shadows" selection in their properties menu. I believe "Streaks" are able to cast shadows IF certain things are done. I believe it must be a Klieg light with ray traced shadows. There are also other steps one can take but the correct order escapes me at the moment. Does anyone know how to make Streaks "Cast Shadows"? Thanks! Tom

no problem...take your time... there are always little things to pick up along the way.

Thanks to Rob for another Live Saturday tutorial! I agree that the Oswald cartoon was artistically superior to Steamboat Willie...interesting observation. Thanks for pointing it out. BTW- Is there any chance of you posting the video of today's class?

OK ..thanks..

I only have v 19 on my computers... If you are so inclined, maybe you could try it on 17 tomorrow(?)

I'm guessing the fluid properties can be animated so the gravity is normal and then zero gravity takes effect when the blob hits the surface ...

I didn't know that was possible... Will that effect everything in the scene or just the specific blobs?

Yes, his "action" paintings were all done horizontally but I was just looking for an example to describe the animation of something splattering against a wall or other vertical thing. Do you think that is possible to make a blob (or other particle or sprite) stick to a vertical surface?

I have been trying to figure out how to replicate a character flicking paint off a paint brush onto a canvas. Think, Jackson Pollock onto a vertical canvas. I can sort of figure out the flicking of blobs but I don't know if it is possible to make those blobs stick onto something... Anyway, I hope to be there tomorrow. Tom

Rob- Discovered that the Simple Scatter Plugin allows the user to fill various shapes using a drop down menu. We were puzzled why some of the leaves dropped through when we were filling a circle. Excellent that anything can be filled!

great effect!

Very cool! That approximates what Andy was showing us yesterday! So you are just changing the size of the funnel over time? Or just adjusting the size of the Magnitude?

Thank you!!

Interesting...will give it a try. And thanks again for hosting the session today! BTW-Are you able to post a recording of the session today? I always find little steps and tricks that I missed the first time...

Here is the new leaf project rendered to 400 frames. As you can see there is not the cyclic quality of the v12 version. I wrote to Steffen and asked if it was possible to reproduce the original version where the leaves cycle continuously. BlowingLeaves.mp4