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JustinAlvarez
02-06-2006, 05:20 AM
I'm adding muzzle flashes to an intense war scene. Obviously I need to be able to use multiple instances of the same flashes throughout the sequence. Rather than copy the muzzle flash fileIn node mulitple times and change the in/out points for each copy, i would like to be able to use multiple branches from the one fileIn and offset the time of each branch to the frames that require the flashes - so that later if i change the base flash, all the references to that flash will update automatically. As far as I have found, i'm unable to do this, since the timing paramaters are only available in the preferences of the fileIn and not as a node!?.

Someone told me that I can create instances of the fileIn node, that reference the original, rather than a copy, which is independent of the original. Is this true? if so, how do i do this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Justin :cool:
Vympel
02-06-2006, 06:06 AM
Tried the TimeX node?
Sagroth
02-06-2006, 11:14 AM
Yeah, for outside-of-filein-node time shifts you can use TimeX node, but only one timeshift could be made on the same fileIn anyway - that's documented in manual - so, yeap, you need to duplicate your fileIn multiple times - just copy/paste.
pgraham
02-07-2006, 05:29 AM
Someone told me that I can create instances of the fileIn node, that reference the original, rather than a copy, which is independent of the original. Is this true?
If you're not re-timing, then you can just feed all the copies from one fileIn. So that's a kind of reference. If you're re-timing, then each copy has to load a different frame for every frame you render, so they have to be independent.

Keep in mind that you can re-time all your fileIn copies from the Time View.
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