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# 1 11-05-2011 , 09:30 AM

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hey guys i really want to make a propeller or a plane look like its going really fast, almost like that solid circle you them turn into on real planes, any tips/advice on how to achieve this? ive tried keyframing with rendered motion blur it looks rubbish user added image

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# 2 11-05-2011 , 10:17 AM

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Ive never done this, I would look into a disc with a blured image in it(transparencey) revolving at say every 20 frames in a 24 frame per min shot, also set the shader to fade in and out at 20 frames. There is most likely a better solution......dave

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# 3 11-05-2011 , 10:56 AM

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use a circular ramp.

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# 4 11-05-2011 , 02:14 PM

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cheers guys ill give both a try

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# 5 11-05-2011 , 02:54 PM

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If you try my one let use know how it went..........dave

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# 6 11-05-2011 , 08:10 PM

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the texture idea worked well, 20frames is a bit slow, 10frames is good. , sorry honestdom i dont have time to go with the ramp idea so i dont know if its better user added image

but the texture is really good for what i need user added image

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# 7 11-05-2011 , 08:32 PM

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ok another question i have the transparency from photoshop but how do i get the transparency in maya user added image

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# 8 11-05-2011 , 08:55 PM

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I use a mentalray mai material x shader, in the advanced dropdown plug a alpha into the cutout opacity(will post one I have done for a leaf to see what I mean) make shore the alpha is luminus is ticked in the file node..........dave

Edit: the good thing about this shader you can you another transparencey layer in it

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# 9 11-05-2011 , 09:05 PM

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haha, the ramp idea was to save you time making a couple of maps in photoshop. perhaps i should have explained more. user added image

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# 10 11-05-2011 , 10:29 PM

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im so sorry to be a pain but i cant figure out this alpha channel stuff, i have an alpha channel created in photoshop but every time i try to export using a .tga format the alpha channel tick box is greyed out user added image

seriously stressing over this now user added image

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# 11 11-05-2011 , 11:02 PM

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im so sorry to be a pain but i cant figure out this alpha channel stuff, i have an alpha channel created in photoshop but every time i try to export using a .tga format the alpha channel tick box is greyed out seriously stressing over this now

Originally Posted by chilledoutredhead

Save it as a .png or something. The alpha channel map needs to just be an image, the photoshop thing is if you are embedding transparency within an image, which you're not, you're creating an image to dictate the transparency of another one.

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# 12 12-05-2011 , 08:27 AM

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hey guys thanks for the help, i solved the problem(ish) haha my problem was that photoshop wasnt letting me save it out with alpha channels, then for some reason it started too. so that allowed me to finally save the alpha matte. and i tried just saving it as a separate image and then plugging it into the transparency channel but that wasnt working either. I think it was just the software playing mind games with me as it was late user added image

but i just couldnt get them to work!
solved now.

thanks again.

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