flashawd Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hello - I have a hospital scene for a client that requires a modeled EKG machine w/ a heart monitor that they want the oscilations animated on the flat panel monitor. Any suggestions or ideas for this - I was thinking of maybe making an animated gif in another program and importing it in? Thanks for any help -Eric Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefreshestever Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 i would animate the oscillating lines in flash (very easy to do that with flash, also you can find some good animated waveforms on flashkit.com), export the movie as a .mov and import it in a:m... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashawd Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hey Sebastian, thanks again for your help and the great idea. -E Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tralfaz Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hi Eric: A while ago, someone was looking for a method to create an ECG display. http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=27566&hl= I responded with a project file and sample movie (near the bottom of the page). Hope this helps... Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashawd Posted March 22, 2008 Author Share Posted March 22, 2008 Hi Al - thanks for the link - see if I can figure out how you did it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted March 23, 2008 Share Posted March 23, 2008 here's an old project using an expression and sprites heart.mov heart.zip not sure it will help made an action to repeat a sequence of tgas from the qt and got this ..does not show detail unfortunately as I rendered to small decal.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashawd Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 Hi John I actually was able to create it in flash and import it as a targa image and apply as a decal - I had to create a screen and have 3 oscillations on it - so flash was the best way to do it - the only problem is I don't know how to make it loop in AM ... any ideas. Thanks and Happy Easter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 start new action with model. show more drivers so you can see the decal sequence attached never mind I'll try to do a quick visual be back in a few posted a sligtly blurry tut on my blog see if that helps http://johnl3d.blogspot.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimblepix Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 flashawd, A few years back I went through the same sort of problem solving that you're going through now . . . putting a looping texture on a surface. I tried it several ways, but the easiest for me was to just bring the targa sequence that I wanted to loop into Quicktime Pro and save it with Animation compression. The file size was noted. I then copied everything from the Quicktime timeline, put the playhead at the end and pasted several times until I had the amount that I needed for the animation. Then hit "save," not "save as." Amazingly, the file size did not change. All that was left to do was bring in that movie as a decal, and apply it to the surface. Works great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flashawd Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 Thanks John - that was awesome - you have helping people down to an art. Thank you too Dan, that is a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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