help with animating moulding (loft along the path)

[joyceanblue]

found this link that does the same
http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/rendfaq/RFAQ0128.HTM
but i cant understand it. any help?

[joyceanblue]

i figured out how to use path deformer but still the result is not satisfactory,ill use scale deformer in loft object instead. still i dont think its the best wayt to do it. but after reading so many posts in so many forum it looks like ther is no other solution.

[eyezac]

sorry i can't help you much on the animating creation..

but i do have to ask about your scene lighting and textures. those windows look nice, and the lighting is sweet! how did you get it like that?

zac

[joconnell]

Its a white coloured building with one direct lighting with raytrace shadows and a skylight as the overally fill in - Fairly straightforward stuff. Try looking up global illumination and final gathering in mental ray or light tracer in the scanline. The other thing is he's used a sharp anti aliasing filter like mitchell netravelli or catmull rom to make the edges more crisp.

joyceanblue - You could use an animated opacity map to reveal on the object - Any loft object will generate mapping coordinates along the length of the object and you could use a gradient ramp in the opacity slot and animate a colour swatch on the ramp from right to left or left to right to gradually slide a white colour along the object - admittedly it wont have a solid cap on it but it'll draw itself on.

The other thing would be an animated slice modifier that will run along the length of the object, if you put a cap holes modifier above this it'll fill in the open gap left by the slice.

[eyezac]

ummm how do you know that if you didn't make it?

[joconnell]

Cos I've been doing this long enough to know the look of something :)

[joyceanblue]

sorry it took me long to answer eyezac this project kept me busy. there is one direct light in the scene using vray shadow (ofcourse vray is the renderer i use). antialiasing- adaptive subdivision min-1 max2, filter area, size 1.5. indirect illumination primary bounce irridance map secondary quasi monte carlo though id use light cache now. irridance preset medium hsph sub-35, gi environ multiplier .9 ofcourse it changes from scene to scene.

here is final rendered image. the quality is not good i know but i had to render it in two days on an athlonXP 1800+, nvidia 5200fx machine. under 2mins per frame.

[eyezac]

well i think it looks pretty nice. looks like you're in the architectural rendering field...
thanks for the reply, hope the project went well.

zac

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