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Snowballing
10-08-2004, 09:27 AM
Hi everyone,

Here's what I have to do for a video :

In the main scene, there is a television inside a flat. What I absolutely need to do is to have on the screen of this television the image that the scene camera is taking. I guess there's a way to do it in a compositing software, but I doubt it can be very precise.


So if you know a way to do this, it would make my life much better....
aaraaf
10-08-2004, 05:49 PM
You could render out the scene and use the rendered images for the material... or am I mistaken and you are looking to have that crazy infinite mirrored hallway look?
Waple
10-08-2004, 05:57 PM
Hmm, what about rendering out the scene (this first run would have no texture on the tv screen), then use that bitmap or avi as the map for the tv screen and render it out a 2nd time?It works in my head at least.
Dave Black
10-08-2004, 07:06 PM
Neither of those options will work. You will still have a render with no image on the TV screen, which will not look right.

-Dave
Conny
10-08-2004, 07:30 PM
In the second rendering you should have the animation
from the first round running in the TV.
Then you could render a 3rd time with the animation from the 2nd round in the TV.
Keep rendering until the empty TV is small enough.

Conny
aaraaf
10-08-2004, 07:54 PM
The image will be fine and easy to do if the image that needs to be on the TV doesn't include the TV screen itself. :) It's just whether or not he needs the mirrored hall look.

At which point I'd do it like Conny says, in succession until you can't see it anymore... also, it could be cool if it was lit different, since it's on a TV screen, which also might help to not need advanced lighting or anything too complicated... at least for the first few renders that would be the smallest.
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