Originally posted by Hookflash
Very cool:thumbsup: So, how did you composite it all together? What’s your impression of EI?
Hey HookFlash, thanks for the email… you’ve been following this thread from the begining! Thanks.
I composited the images by using the same camera data in EI that I had in hash. To do this, I had to write a little math utility that would change the values so that the world coordinates would match up. The diference between EI and hash’s world coordinates is the Z axis. They are reveresd. So once the math was done, compositing was pretty easy. I just had to manually render the layers… meaning in order to get the proper alpha channel I had to render all camera blocking geomtry pure white and later apply it to the alpha channel of the appropriate color rotoscope. Shadow buffers from hash were pretty straight forward. Shadow object only feature.
However there is a drawback… It is impossible to line the images up perfectly in all angles… sometimes if the camera moves to extremes the objects are just slightly off… Either EI or hash has a defective camera lense.
Being that EI has many motion pictures under it’s belf, I feel that hash’s camera is suspect.
So, my feelings on EI… it’s a great program. It rocks. But it also lacks. It lacks many ofthe things we take for granted in Hash. Such as the great character tools. But EI is taking steps to add character tools and so far they are pretty good. No dynamics as of yet.
Which brings me to the point of allthis… combining the best of both apps to get the most of them. At least that s the goal.
Thanks for the reply
Mike Fitz
