Forum - How Do I ...? - Spinning propellers? - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Forum - How Do I ...? - Spinning propellers? - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Fri, 08 Jan 2016 20:12:38 GMT Fri, 08 Jan 2016 20:12:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from braj MrDrWho13 wrote:

You could render a very short clip as a png image sequence, only selecting the required layers which should give it a transparent background.


Yeah, that does give the best results, a bit of work though either way, it would be nicest if the engine could do this natively, like a simple menu item, right-click an object, select 'capture object view as 2d' and tada, a new image sans background is added to the library, ready to be employed. But that sounds like a bunch of work for probably little benefit to most users.

(oh, and setting the movie duration to minimum (.8 seconds) results in a very manageable 2 frame output. Nice.)
edited by braj on 08/01/2016]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 20:12:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 braj wrote:
Yeah, thankfully I don't need to use Photoshop for this. It would be great though if Muvizu allowed you to take screenshots of layers within itself as transparency supporting PNGs so we could 'sample' Muvizu images without having to trim away the surrounding bits. No matter how well this is done, it would be easier, faster and better quality by leaving out any backgrounds to start.

You could render a very short clip as a png image sequence, only selecting the required layers which should give it a transparent background.
Alternatively, Muvizu has a screenshot function built in. Press f11 to take it, and it's in C:\Program Files\Muvizu Play\MuvizuGame\Screenshots\PC
edited by MrDrWho13 on 08/01/2016]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:30:16 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from braj Fri, 08 Jan 2016 19:27:10 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from ziggy72


I added a link to it on the Wiki.
edited by ziggy72 on 08/01/2016
edited by ziggy72 on 08/01/2016]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:18:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from PatMarrNC that propeller looks great....]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 15:15:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from MrDrWho13 WozToons wrote:
MrDrWho13 wrote:
Ah, it was woztoons who initially did this:
http://www.muvizu.com/forum/topic2054-how-do-i-.aspx?p=f#post11680
(I can't find a tutorial though.)
edited by MrDrWho13 on 08/01/2016


It's in the post above my video in that thread.

Oops, I thought that was what Ziggy posted here, thanks for pointing that out. ]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:45:19 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from WozToons MrDrWho13 wrote:
Ah, it was woztoons who initially did this:
http://www.muvizu.com/forum/topic2054-how-do-i-.aspx?p=f#post11680
(I can't find a tutorial though.)
edited by MrDrWho13 on 08/01/2016


It's in the post above my video in that thread. ]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 08:43:24 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from MrDrWho13

(This object is made in 3 parts, but using lineal keyframes allows me to move them to appear as one object)

The propellers do look good, and I'm sure there was a tutorial for Ziggy's method somewhere.

Ah, it was woztoons who initially did this:
http://www.muvizu.com/forum/topic2054-how-do-i-.aspx?p=f#post11680
(I can't find a tutorial though.)
edited by MrDrWho13 on 08/01/2016]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 07:21:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from braj

edited by braj on 08/01/2016]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 05:14:21 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from braj
EDIT: that's not actually correct, uncompressed AVI straight from Anime Studio Pro did the job. I actually couldn't get VirtualDub to do the trick with the image sequences I tried.
edited by braj on 08/01/2016]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 04:09:06 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from ziggy72
http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1281-transparent-videos-as-textures-in-muvizu.aspx]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2016 01:40:38 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic5412-spinning-propellers.aspx Message from braj
I was able to get it working somewhat by using the Direct Object Properties with keyframes, changing the angle through 4 frames, then going back to the first and repeating the cycle. It would be cool in this sort of instance to have a cycle function so you just set up what you want to cycle through and animation once.]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2016 23:05:46 GMT