Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Shadows with AVI backgrounds

desler opened this issue on Mar 04, 2002 ยท 12 posts


EdW posted Mon, 04 March 2002 at 1:26 PM

Even with the Pro Pack the only thing you can animate as far as a textures are the color, highlight, ambient and reflective colors. You can't change texture maps during an animation. Hope Poser 5 addresses this. The only thing I have tried that even worked somewhat was to create a long plane like a film strip and create a texture using the sequencial frames from the animation and place this strip in front of the box and use magnets to squish the strip on each side of the box. Then move the strip along the xtrans on each frame to create the illusion of an avi. I also used constant interpolation. It does work, but it's hard to set up and get the magnet falloff zones to work right. When I set it up I used it on a tv prop which gave me a little room to get the strip squished before it cleared the prop. With the ability of exporting to the other programs (I use Cinema and World Builder) now using the propack, I doubt I would ever try it again. Too much work for something that should be very simple if we could just use an animation for a texture. Ed