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[ENSONIQ5]

One problem with the clouds could be that lighting does not pass through transparencies in Anim8or, ie the front trans map will be totally blocking all illumination other than Ambient from the ones behind.  Adjusting the Emissive colour and value will provide an apparent illumination that is independent of actual scene lighting, not particularly accurate but might provide the look you are after.

Also, nice modelling and animation, and great to see you are willing to take the advice of others.  Your model has improved considerably as a result of ADSohr's advice.  Great work, keep it up.

[CoriDavis]

Yay! thanks. my planned uses for the anim8or program is making various movies.  I'm starting with this one, and my next project will be a very long movie based on a book I wrote.  Don't worry about rendering, I use the "render bits and pieces" strategy, which I will have to use for this video because of how many different views it will have.  (that and my models are typically medium to high poly)

[davdud101]

Would that be because you subdivide a lot, or just generally use a lot of polys?

[CoriDavis]

nope, I rarely subdivide unless I absolutely need to.  for the palm tree, I subdivided only the top part where the spikes are, if you notice how the spikes are alternating, like bricks on a house, and not just stacked. I did that by subdividing and then deleting the lines in between to make the pattern. so really, I subdivided, and then un-subdivided it. but it still made it over 1000 polys.  either way, it looks good.

[ADSohr]

For things like that it may be easier to use sudivide faces instead. Then it won't end up being too high poly.

[CoriDavis]

that... didn't make much sense... subdividing makes less polys?

[CoriDavis]

Does anybody have an idea on how to make a sound wave effect?

(aka. when Elizabeth Swann falls into the water at the beginning of Pirates 1 and the medallion makes that "sonic boom"?)

[davdud101]

Make a cone, then use morph targets and maybe transparency.

[CoriDavis]

hmm. I knew I was going to need morph targets, but would a transparent cone warp what's behind it?

by the way, how do I attach the camera to an object?

[3Dgeek11]

Well, this looks pretty darn good!

No shadows, but hehe.
The test animation is good, and the model looks good, so keep at it.

[CoriDavis]

thanks!  the real movie looks awesome already. only... I rendered a clip and now I can't find the file!

[CoriDavis]

ok, I found it, I had to do a search on my computer, and it's NOT in the folder it's supposed to go to. these save to the weirdest places! once, it was saved to my desktop!

[davdud101]

aw man sometimes that happens to me like i'll save it in some temp folder in some wierd place where i won't find it!!!!