Nothing too exciting but this does demonstrate creating a simple animation by using a movie as a texture map in the color channel. In this case I used some footage from the Flamingo in Las Vegas. I rendered as a sequence of TGA files and then finished up in ImageReady (it has a handy import folder as frames feature). This technique of rendering to a sequence of high-quality stills seems to be very flexible and gives you more options for finishing things up in another product like ImageReady, After Effects or Combustion. Anyone else have fun ideas of things to do with movies in C?

Hey, that's pretty slick.

Nice gif-animation. How do you upload images like that to the photos section?

For my post in this forum I just uploaded it like any other image. Haven't tried posting it in a gallery but in theory that ought to work as well since animated GIF support is built right into most web browsers.

No, I mean what's the URL where you upload them? I should have been more specific.

When you do a post to a forum you can attach a file to that post (Attach File/Browse to pick it up off your local disk) or are you talking about something else?

Attached Link: http://www.bluetones-productions.com/prepro.htm

I have heard of dropping a video into the bump channel to create an anmation of, say, wind blowing a wheat field. I have mapped videos onto projection screens and computer monitors in my animations, but I have found a weird quirk: for some reason I have to re-load the video file into the shader, and reset the animation points, (when does it start, how long should it run, etc.) every time I shut down Carrara. I haven't the slightest clue as to why, but this means I can't render from the batch queue, but have to render from the open file. But when I do this it looks great! If anyone wants to go to my site, and check out how it's worked for me, your welcome to. All I ask is an honest critique. :>

Sorry about that, hartcons - I thought for a minute there the gif was in your members/photo section. Brain was on hold. bluetone - I downloaded the meetingroom.mpg, but I guess I don't have the necessary codec to view it, although I can usually view most divx, mpeg1, 2, and 4 encodings.

That's strange since I compressed it with Cleaner 5 on a Mac as an MPEG 1 that I know has worked on many other machines, including PCs. Are you on a PC or Mac?

Mac OS 9. QT 4 Pro. Maybe someday there will be a standard, like jpeg, that can make video clips as easy to view as stills.

Wouldn't THAT be nice! That's the same system I compressed it on. I
thought I had compressed it at the lowest common denominator so
that it would work for anyone. ~: