rendering wiht particles

# 1 16-07-2003 , 01:25 AM

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ok simply question...i hope

I have created a scene with a kewl little shader for a a planet

i have 2 rotating moons aroudn the planet that emit particles ..tails if you will...comets i guess..

anyways

How do i render the ful scene to an avi... without

A) losing the detail of the shader
B) getting the particles to display..

any help is greatly appreciated

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# 2 16-07-2003 , 01:44 AM

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depending on what kind of particles you're using, you might need to render them seperately with the Hardware Render Buffer, composite them with your original rendered scene, and render as an avi with Premier or After FX or something.

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# 3 16-07-2003 , 01:49 AM

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if its not too much mucking round could u explain how to do it?

or point me to a tute?

they show up in hardware but not in software...but in hardware the shaders look crappy

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# 4 19-07-2003 , 03:44 PM

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ok so the what type are the particles? look in the particles attributes and see if the particle type has s/w after it. If it does it's rendered with the software renderer if not then it's with the hardware one. The hardware ones dont generally come out nice and if you want to apply shaders and stuff you will want to change to the software ones.

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# 5 19-07-2003 , 05:48 PM

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in the hardware render buffer options, you'll want to use select the geometry mask option to hide geometry so only the particles remain. More than likely, you'll also want to use some blur and quite a few passes for each to get a nice look. Just takes a little experimenting to get the look you want.

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# 6 20-07-2003 , 02:19 AM

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ah kewl...whats best the render them too?

format wise?

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# 7 20-07-2003 , 07:22 AM

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That depends on your medium of delivery.

i.e, videotape, web, cd etc.

Usually when I do my renders for my reel, or the web, I'll just ouput to standard 601 DV res. (US - 720x486 or 720x480)

But if it is just a quick render test animation, you can do like 320x240 or 640x480 to save on render time.

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# 8 20-07-2003 , 07:25 AM

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ah not size...format...for compositing..im gunan use after effects

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# 9 21-07-2003 , 04:01 AM

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Oh! hehe.. sry.. my bad user added image

For that I would HIGHLY suggest any UNcompressed format such as Maya .iff, .tga, or .tiff as they all handle an extra 8 bit alpha as well.

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# 10 21-07-2003 , 07:16 AM

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in the hardware render buffer options

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where do i find that ^ ive looked everywhere but where it is obvioulsy

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# 11 21-07-2003 , 11:50 AM

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window>>rendering editors>>render>>attributes

user added image

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# 12 21-07-2003 , 10:44 PM

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thanks for the help so far guys.

okies got them bother rendered out...in tga format

ones the particles with a blur on them (thankx mtmkinley)
and the other set are software tga files

im gunan use after effects...whats the best method of merging them?

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