Wow thanks to everyone for their help. I actually posted that over a year ago and have since graduated from school and finished! Ha,. but thanks again and good luck.

Yes, Tried that and then no particles even show up at all.

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I have created a scene with point particles (instanced with geometry) and I hardware render them with full image resolution, as tiff, and tried targa, alpha off, etc. The particles show up...

aT This point Im just tired...i have tried every suggestion but the attributes, for example, in any of the shaders, like "special effects" which is supposed to show glow, in the open position, does...

Hi. Up until yesterday, when I opened the attribute editor for any material I had, under the "Special Effects" option there was a "glow" with a intensity slider. and the option of hiding the...

Not sure if this is an animation question or special effect. However, I would like to have text written on a chalk board and then blown off into a tunnel.

I tested this out by creating text,...

cool thanks, i was going to render them separately. I instanced my atoms and their are just so many. I will have to just lessen the concentration somehow but I fear the effect wont look as good. ...

Thanks, that worked great. I will just use dissolves to "tween" the surface to the atoms. I am basically doing an animation with a voice over that explains "...the human body is made up of...

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I am trying for an effect where a polygon mesh of a human body dissolves (morphs) into atoms (which would be instanced to particles) but the particles would need to maintain the shape...

Hi, When I go to open the render globals, this is the error I get:


Error: Could not find a control with name: modifyExtensionCtrl


The window opens but nothing is in there.

Does anyone...