Rotation Blur

[GizmoMkI]

Have you tried using Motion Blur? I've got AM2000 8.5L, and in the Render Panel there's a tab for Final Options 2. Check on Motion Blur, and you can set the Shutter from 90-360 degrees.

You'll probably have to experiment with the settings while finding the rotational speed that gives the best effect for your model.

[Jo B.]

try AM 10.5. it has a multy pass renderer wich sould do a good job combined with motion blur. but to be honest i still use 10.0 and i didn't try it yet. maybe it takes a while to render enough passes to achive a good look.

[Dearmad]

I'd most likely fake it with an alpha map (or two for animation) for transperency and procedural texture or something. I mean if it's for something like a propeller.

If it was animated, using a sequence of decals might work really well, this way you can control how it appears more precisely than with AM's rather half-baked standard motion blur. While I've heard good things about the multi-pass version, the one in the basic package is finicky to get to look good.

Like rapidly flapping insect wings, I'd just model them as a volume and texture them appropriately and they'd appear to a blurry motion, but in reality are jsut partially trtansperent volumes where the wing passes through. Then I'd have stationary wing model for slow wing movements.

[LT Fox Fire]

Since I have AM 9.5 I'll try the motion Blur option. I knew I saw that somewhere but I just had to be reminded and to be honest, I was not sure what it did. I'll post a finished .mov file when I get the blur into the animation. Thanks for all your help guys.

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