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Squint
04-14-2003, 01:07 AM
Okay, I'm new to this forum, but not entirely new to Maya. I've been playing around in it for about the last 6 months. I'm wondering if there's any way to make a rendered movie actually 'pop out' from the screen using, say, those little red & blue cheapo glasses you get when you go see an Imax movie and everything you see is in 3d.

I thought that AW had a plugin for something like this a while back, but I can't seem to find it now. I was wondering if there's another way to do this in Maya 4.5.

Also, anybody know where I can get some of those cheesy little 3d glasses? This is for a class project.

Thanks for any and all help!
Stahlberg
04-14-2003, 07:39 AM
Don't know of any plugins.
Make two parallell cameras, render one through a plane with a transparent shader 100% red, the other with a green one.
Then composite the two animations on top of each other, 50/50.

The tricky part is the distance between the cameras, you'll have to test it.
Squint
04-16-2003, 04:09 AM
So is it possible to do the same 3d setup but using polarized glasses in maya? I think that the picture is going to come out a little clearer if it's set up like this. The red/blue setup just seems too... red...& blue. :)

Thanks again
Squint
04-16-2003, 02:03 PM
Okay, forget it, I found the plugin that Maya had. I couldn't remember where it was hidden at, but I'll post the link for anybody that might be interested.

(This is a sweet-n-simple plugin, and it holds the distance constraint of the leftCamera & rightCamera to the 'normal' distance of what the human eye would be. Very nice, very quick.)

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/Tmpl/Maya/html/index.jhtml?page=/en/Community/Download/plug_ins/maya_nt/maya_nt.html

Cheers
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