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Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:57 am**

Just a test I did.

http://www.blackbullet.se/Maxwell/LightRampTest.mov

// Tobias

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:02 pm**

looking goood!

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:05 pm**

wow, what?! how?!

that is very cool, but i'm to ignorant to know how you did it

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:11 pm**

Easy, I just made a map like this:

Converted it to a .mxi.

Applied it to my model. Scaled the UVs and then keyFramed the UV-positions.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:18 pm**

That is very clever... I don't think I can do it in Rhino yet though! Maybe with version 4....

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:21 pm**

You could very well use this for alot of animation lighting tricks! ie; a train passing by is what I thought almost immidiately.

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:28 pm**

pretty cool fx.. I like it..

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:57 am**

the forums are having a creative peak today, haven't we. Cool stuff SLR.

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:28 am**

Very innovative! I'm thinking of various different ways to use this - such as animating a computer screen - Of course you would need a VERY long bitmap of screenshots stringed together.... It would end up looking like a strip of old-fashioned film...

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:32 am**

Thanks

michaelplogue wrote:Very innovative! I'm thinking of various different ways to use this - such as animating a computer screen - Of course you would need a VERY long bitmap of screenshots stringed together.... It would end up looking like a strip of old-fashioned film...

Yeah, I tought of that to, but easier would be if NL would listen to my wish:

http://www.maxwellrender.com/forum/view ... hp?t=21027

// Tobias

Posted: **Fri Jan 26, 2007 2:56 pm**

Agreed! I recall requesting the implementation of animated maps (via either video file or image sequence) way back in the Alpha days....

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:13 am**

I am trying to mimick the same thing so i screen grabbed your image form the post and cropped and saved it into a photoshop rgb JPG file.

Then I created a poly plane 1uv each way. Assigned a Maxwell material to it then removed a layer, added an emmiter, changed it from luminense to texture and assigned the image as a mxi texture emmitter.

When I render it using a multi light no matter what the intensity of the texture emmtiter it always comes out all sparkly. Even if I load a black and white photoshop file (RGB mode) it still gives a really bright multisparkled effect.

Am I doing something major wrong?
Thanks for any tips
Peter

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:43 am**

wonderful!!!

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2007 5:30 pm**

acquiesse wrote:That is very clever... I don't think I can do it in Rhino yet though! Maybe with version 4....

It's a question of the Rhinoll plugin. This kind of animation can be done with other render engines now. Will rhinoll for Rhino 4 support animations?

Nice animation and good idea.

Posted: **Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:03 pm**

p3tamaxwell:
Did you really open the -jpg in the renderer and resave it as an .mxi?
Cuz when you try to set an .jpg as lightsource for the emitter, it renders
all sparkly.

Thanks all.

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Animated MXI-Light - Test

Animated MXI-Light - Test

that looks great

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