Forum - Your Videos - Superhero Adventures Episode 2 - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Forum - Your Videos - Superhero Adventures Episode 2 - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:15:06 GMT Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:15:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from urbanlamb
edited by urbanlamb on 01/11/2012]]> Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:15:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from candy1 ]]> Sat, 27 Oct 2012 06:33:58 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from ziggy72

Anyway, glad to hear you're taking up the challenge urbanlamb - up, up, and away! Big Grin]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:51:29 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from urbanlamb ziggy72 wrote:
urbanlamb wrote:
haha your "guess" is about right.


So urbanlamb, can we expect some top cape action in the next installment?



Oh yes most definately I will do my bestest to convert his scarf into a cape haha. I forsee a good 10 gig of Raw footage to get my 20 seconds of top notch cape action lol. I spend so much time stitching together scenes and clips but visually it is definately worth it

thanks for this all i could think was "dang they need to introduce wind or animate this cape" the soft body stuff is a bit meh in muvizu obviously its a work in progress hehe. For now this works well enough and I dont care how i get there as long as its convincing in the end Big Grin
edited by urbanlamb on 17/10/2012]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 21:13:25 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from ziggy72 urbanlamb wrote:
haha your "guess" is about right.

He's right you know - this is my (unrefined) way of making that damn cape not become a scarf :

1. Created a sort of hilly strip in Sketchup using a section of terrain someone had posted on Google 3D Warehouse


2. Imported it into Muvizu with Alpha set to Opacity (and single sided).



The blue one is how it looks when you import it, I then applied the texture for Raindrop (from Effects) to make it partially visible, but easier to work with.

3. Stretched out 2 copies of the strip, and lined them up with Soop (made them much more shallow too, as the lumpier version sent the cape all over the place)


4. With Movement Speed set to 75, animated both strips moving straight ahead (arrow key up) to pass through his face. This moves the cape okay, but I'll be experimenting further to find the best kind of shape to pass under the cape to make it look better.



Obviously, set the texture to None before rendering the shots, and there you go. If anyone else finds a better kind of shape to use, please let us all know!

So urbanlamb, can we expect some top cape action in the next installment? ]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 20:53:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from urbanlamb ]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:01:00 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from Dreeko mysto wrote:
Nice job there Ziggy! It looks like you may have slipped something under the cape (an invisible ground plane maybe) and moved it about slightly as the "flying" animation was going. Probably not how you did it but a fair guess I think.

Looking forward to seeing how you really did this! Toast


Yeh Mysto, I have played around with this and a ground plane or a small box shuffling around underneath the cape was how I achieved the effect. Interested to see if Zig has a different method. ...]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 07:43:24 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from mysto
Looking forward to seeing how you really did this! Toast]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 05:35:16 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from urbanlamb
Thanks for the solution I must say I would not have come up with your idea in a million years
edited by urbanlamb on 17/10/2012]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 01:44:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from ziggy72


I'll post a tutorial or something as to how it's done, but suffice to say it's a trick not a solution ]]> Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:56:05 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic2215-superhero-adventures-episode-2.aspx Message from urbanlamb




I was playing around and made a little poster even


edited by urbanlamb on 16/10/2012]]> Tue, 16 Oct 2012 11:11:47 GMT