Beaming/Teleportation

[thatoneguy]

I didn't spend really any time on this, and it's horribly innefficient, but this would be my guess on how to approach that effect. Also, I'm trying to operate from my (embarassingly extensive) SG1 memory, so if you have any reference photos, that would probably be helpful. Especially the nuances that I can't remember.

http://vaporware.w3dzine.net/Asgard_effect.zip

I would strongly recommend just looking over the general ideas in the workspace, and then coming up with a system from scratch. You could probably do that effect with just 3 layers, not the 8 or so I used. Also you could instance footage through the schematic view.

I'm not sure particles would be the best way to do it... but who knows, maybe instead of the turbulence generator, you could just generate some really patchy fog as your source for the vertical patches.

If you get something easy to wield, make it into a capsule and email me, I'll host it online as a resource to the community.

[lordbob]

I had ago with applying a glow effect to a selected area of turbulence, it looked ok but just wasnt right for some reason, you could see the transition between clips of the object being there and disapearing, I would add some images but i cant fin any program that takes images from a video file.

[lordbob]

By the way your file doesnt work

[thatoneguy]

Fixed the link. And while I was inside the system did a quick rewire in the schematic.

And made an untested capsule, well untested on anything beyond the demo image in the workspace: http://vaporware.w3dzine.net/Swap/Beta_Asgard_Beam.ccw

Hehe you can use Gavin's tried and true ways to mask glitches that need to hide in plain sight.

Whip zoom, blur, lens flare or cross fingers and pray they don't notice. You can cover up anything with one of those 4 approaches ;) I don't remember, but it sounds like a lens flare might do the trick in covering up the transition. Some sort of beam of light. Again I'd have to see some example footage to see how they handled the problem.

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