oscillating EKG machine

[flashawd]

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

[thefreshestever]

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...

[flashawd]

Hey Sebastian, thanks again for your help and the great idea. -E

[Tralfaz]

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

[flashawd]

Hi Al - thanks for the link - see if I can figure out how you did it now.

[johnl3d]

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

[flashawd]

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.

[johnl3d]

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/

[nimblepix]

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!

[flashawd]

Thanks John - that was awesome - you have helping people down to an art. Thank you too Dan, that is a great idea.