I need a particle generated in the following way: the particle is generated and as long as lifetime passes the particle should fade in size to make it soft at the end, or particle generator would create a hard particle stream. What I mean is the following: in the real life as far as you go from the emitter as soft you get the effect. Imagine a smoke from a jet fighter that is strong near the exhaust and fades away with distance to a point that it is very soft… so that was the problem.
Topics: smoke/flame
Bilinear Offsets
Sometimes you need to move your bilinear offsets closer to your subject, but once you exit the EditOffsets menu, you find that your controls points have resized to the corners of the screen and have distorted your subject. The trick inherent in this tip is to get your subject back to it’s original size and shape while retaining the offsets. (I can’t take credit for this, Chris at Method is the clever guy who figured this out)
Grid Making
Various methods to make a quick and easy grid of any size.
Page Turn in Action Using a Deform Node
Creating a page turning motion in Action.
Keyboard Shortcut to Drag a Frame Out of a Clip
Here’s one of those shortcuts you may have missed when it was added to the interface!
Simulate Z Motion
While tracking an object manually, use the axis’ vertical size to fit a particular feature of an object.
Day for Night
In general, night is all about brightness ratios, and having something of orange color to contrast to the blue fill of the night. (Actually, moonlight is pure daylight bouncing off of the moon, but we think of it as blue since most ambient light in the city is tungsten or sodium which has a markedly
Tracking Two Moving Images
This tutorial explains how to track one moving clip to another moving clip using one point tracking.
March 2nd 2000
Combining Two Mattes via Source Nodes
Here is a sample setup to take two mattes and combine them using source nodes
Optical Mix
This technique will give a result closer to a true optical film mix than any other method available using Discreet tools alone.