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i posted a free tutorial that shows a fix for this in max9 using mental ray. its at the http://www.fxphd.com site and its a random free tip on the main page. you might have to refresh the site a few times before it shows up. called something like “arch design shader tip”.
enjoy!
//gD
combustin can work well in 16 bit linear (like PNG) or you can work with floating point color in RPF files.
//gD
“stencil layer” feature.
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what is the effect you are trying to do?
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Alvinvision wrote:Tga is the best!TGA can only be 8 bit per pixel.
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a combustion 3d composite doesnt generate a Z-buffer.
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the clone source can be anything. if its a nested comp, you can transform layers in that comp to animate the clone source pos/rot/scale.
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“eltopo wrote:Remember that Shake used to cost 5K?Quote:so did combustion. its price has bounced around from 3495.00 to 4995.00 to 995.00 since 1999.//gD
the revision plugin mops the floor with grid warper tools. its worth a second look
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sweetness
thanks!
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in the past ive used a particle that looks like steam and tracked it to where i want the distortion. set the size/rate etc and then cut it off that fotage and paste it on a black solid thats the same rez/frame rate etc. this becomes a secondary input to a displacement operator applied to the primary footage.
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make sure you are using image sequences and not something like MOV or AVI. these will slow combustion down and its always faster to use image sequences (especially uncompressed ones)
//garyD
quadro FX cards are better than GeForce, yes. they are both good cards tho. within Combustion, what will benefit is the particles and the 3D compositing.
//garyD
keep in mind miniDV is about the worst case footage to key with.
you can set up a digital still camera and take simple, stop-motion type photos at really high rez ans then down sample them after the key. they will result in better work and the options are pretty open. craft stores have uber-bright green/blue boards you can make a mini-cyclorama out of (not a true chroma key color, but they can work).
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