The file is simpler than you think. Check the vector layer, it's just a circle which increase and decrease its size. All the rest is work of the particle layer: look at its proprieties, all velocity values are in zero, that avoids any movement. The cloud in version 7: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54411/...

Go to the particle layer proprieties and set zero to velocity value (it's 0.05 right now) Ooops, couldn't open it saying "newer version". I'm using 8, your's must be 8.1 :cry: Anyway: your clouds "fade" looks very pretty in the gif: the vanishing like an explosion - how did you ...

Many times, fade out doesn't look good with particles. I prefer to make them reduce the size to zero. Check this file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/54411/AS8/forum/nube_01.anme good idea - that's the way a actually start them. I just call it fade in/out for that's what it looks like. So I guess I'll als...

Ok.... I see what you mean. You want thre clouds to stay for longer. The particles looke like they reset after 24 frames or so.... Can you make a longer lifespan for the particles in the particle settimgs? Say for 100 frames? See if that works. D.K I set it in that file to 0 which means no end at a...

Is the ort of thing you mean? http://www.polliefillers.com.au/forum/cloud.mov It is a mov file very low quality. D.K yes, but only something like this. I guess it's just the shape that you moved in and out. Actually I wanted it to make with particels but they won't last in the final stage - they fa...

When I use text with huge letters I have a serious prob - on the working screen I see a beautiful red but rendered it looks kinda blured or rather washed out. Understand what I mean? It seems that this happens only with text but that's bad enough :cry: I've tried different BG colours but am still no...

what I want to have: some cloud that slowly appaers - like maybe the ghost off a bottle thing - and then stops still existing and than vanishing again like playing backward. How to make things appear and disappear I know, but using particels I'm not able to let am start from a center point and end u...

Well - you don't have to buy it, if it stinks. Personally I find any film with something selfmade much better than anything bought from CP. Be it a selfmade photo, a scanned in drawing, or just a collage of some google image search results - everything is better than CP. well - the smell I won't ge...

[quote="FloridaJo"]Actually I tried rotating all points.
It don't work.
Here's a screen cast of the issue.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCERHLd571E

Thanks[/quote]

Saw it and in my opininion that is rotating objekts and not rotating points.

But I see you already solved your prob. Fine.

[quote="slowtiger"]You always should render all elements for compositing at the same size, even if characters only use a small part of the screen. This is because some video editors would stretch any imported material to current project size, so rendering everything right in that size save...

>> as a habit I try to keep AS scenes short - and I aim where feasible to render fg action separately from bg. (so I plan to segment the whole by both "depth" and time.) thanx to you and all others - asking here led me usually right to where I wanted to go and saved hours of experimenting...

glad you've stuck at it... learning new things can sometimes feel like you have a mountain to climb. hope the view from the top and the thrill of the ascent has made it worthwhile so far. you misunderstand: I'm willing to install that PRG - but not the new one with all that (sorry) trash. That's wh...

Hi D.K., hadn't red your mail yet and since it gives me a satisfieing answer I'm fine. All I can say: Loopy Fireplace - total sales for me since year2009 = 86 USdollars Loopy Brick Walls - total slaes for me since year 2009 = 55.96 USdollars = 142 $. I'd be happy if I could earn this for a 2-3 days ...

jonbo wrote:Use quicktime instead of avi. Compression type png, compression depth millions of colors +. Also don't have any background behind you character.

and what to do if I must use avi (for many reasons)?

Thanks. So is there a best practice to get the 'origin' point in the middle of the shape, or just eye it? you can select all points and then rotate 'em via 'rotate points' - the button next to 'scaling points' (in my Win-AS; Mac might be some different place but leads to the same result); the size ...