Smoking Props
kwannie
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I was just wondering in the smoke plane and cherry on the cigarette in the the new smoking props product are animatable. The promo shows the smoke being animated but I cannot see how to key frame the randomizer script.
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not new just new in bundle
I already own them and honestly haven't looked
apparently got it with dog8 and canine poses for under $7 too
It seems odd to have a randomizing script for the smoke if the sole intention is for still shots. I'm dying for the vendors to finally start supporting animator's needs in DAZ.
render them out as a mp4 in Hitfilm and use it as a texture in iClone
I don't tthink the randomizer is meant to animate the smoke. It sets a random opacity and mask out of the available choices for each of the 5 planes. The masks are not sequential images, so animating it would look odd. The smoke would jump from one shape to another, not like a smooth rising smoke plume that fritters away after a foot or two.
yeah found that with Strangefate and Roguey's smokes for Red crow inn and Medieval bedroom
I animated them in the end with Enlight Pixaloop on my iPad
How do you think they did the animated effects in the promo video? It is so misleading
Promo video? Where?
North, sorry it was linked within the DAZ forum maybe
I can't call it a Promo video, my apology. Whatever the source it is stll misleading since the product was offered with the bundle in that video.
https://www.facebook.com/DAZ3D.FanPage/videos/746431596133648
That looks like something else entirely. What can I say? Marketing...
The only way I've gotten smoke to work in Daz was with like Kindred Arts' Fireworx, but it's not really made for it and it gives good results but you can tell it's not an animation setup, you just have to keyframe the scale and rotation a lot. Or just get action essentails and comp it in in After effects, or get Blender 2.82 and use Mantaflow as it is amazing.
LOL, Yep North sly and conteptuous demons, they are!!
Oh hey!! Bennie always like you two cent. Well clouds by philosopher is amazing but you can't get the clousd to shape up like smoke trails. There used to be a produt on content paradise for poser, and way back there was a product called weird juice for poser that could do firey smoke trails. I wonder if these planes would work with Mcasual's smoke script.
I was thinking, if one could start with a donut like tube and morph it so it turns in on itself one could trail a smoke texture through it
Mcasual did something like that for a water effect. The problem would be the shape of the smoke trail. A torus would just give you a column type shape.
google for a smoke footage and blend it with a video editor
really easy to do
Thank you Ruphuss, but I have absolutely no idea what you mean by blend it with a video editor. I got the look for smoke footage part but blend it to what? A plane in DAZ or something else?
you put your render into a video editor
i am using vegas pro
one channel for the render
one channel for the footage
the footage must have an alpha channel to be transparent or you use chromakey effect (greenscreen)
Here's a Photoshop tutorial on how to blend smoke footage on a 2D picture:
I've been meaning to try this myself!
Ahhhhh, that is indeed cool but I don't have any high the end tools required. I'm limited to open source right now.
Hitfilm Express
Well, it isn't open source or free but I'm pretty sure I saw a tutorial on doing that with Affinity Photo - it's usually worth checking the video, at least until they use some patented "Do magic" tool that no other application has for most of the heavy liffting, as most of the basic tools are available in all applications (and sometimes making the translation can be more educational than just following the steps in a walk-through).
I been hearing a lot about Affinity Pro so I might just have to give it a whirl. Hitfilm requires registration even for free version, maybe somebody could help me dispell my fears about giving out email, phone number, home adress and on and on. The only reason they offer "free" stuff is to get you to register and agree to let them have the right to sell your personl information and track you all about. Yes, I know paranoia!
I don't use my real name on Facebook or birthdate and you can have multiple gmail accounts
yes a bit spammy admittedly
not as spammy as Renderosity etc
is much like DAZ with free software and a store