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Author Topic: How do you make dynamic shadows?  (Read 6824 times)

Howitzer X07

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How do you make dynamic shadows?
« on: July 12, 2008, 04:25:42 pm »
The website's tutorial on shadowing only shows how to do it for pictures, but I want to know how to make objects and figures cast shadows in my videos. If it's some sort of default setting, my program isn't working properly. I've looked under the element editors in scenes, but that doesn't help at all.

I have another unrelated problem. Let's say I have two elements, and they are both the same figure. How do I get them to execute two different sequences at the same time? Whenever I try to address this, the last figure that I added controls what all the other figures like it do.
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Re: How do you make dynamic shadows?
« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2008, 06:29:35 pm »
As for the first question. if you can render a picture with shadows you should be able to render an animation with shadows. Just double click on the item in scene mode and make sure that for shadows that cast shadow is checked. Then you have to go to build light and create a light and go to advance and make sure that shadows is checked.

Now that I think about it are you talking about the tutorial on the left. that is more like a static baked on shadow. you can't animate that unless you put in an animated texture with terranim8or.

As for the second question, i don't know exactly what you mean but if you have 2 or more objects in a figure, sequence mode will treat them as one object. you have to put each object in its own figure and put them in scsne mode to animat them seperatly. hope that helps.
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Re: How do you make dynamic shadows?
« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2008, 07:47:05 pm »
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Howitzer X07

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Re: How do you make dynamic shadows?
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2008, 10:24:32 am »
Thanks for the shadowing tips. Apparently I just had a lighting problem and never noticed when I fixed it.

To clarify my second question:
Let's say I have a figure that I have named a "giblet." In scene mode, I have two giblets. In this project, I have two sequences, "pick nose" and "walk the dog." How would I get one giblet to pick nose and the other one to walk the dog at the same time?
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Re: How do you make dynamic shadows?
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2008, 10:57:18 am »
This is strange. It should be possible to animate different instances of the same figure independently, as you normaly do with two different figures, (since v0.9 http://www.anim8or.com/release_notes/index.html#new_features)
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Re: How do you make dynamic shadows?
« Reply #5 on: July 13, 2008, 02:23:05 pm »
That explains it, since I was using v0.85. Wow, the new version is like Christmas; it's everything I wanted, and then some. Thank you immensely, that solved all my problems.
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