Tango Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 Like most EI animators, I use a lot of different programs to do my work and sometimes it gets hard to remember how to do something or if the option you are looking for exist in the program you are currently using. I am running into this issue now. I built a scene with cars racing inside a stadium. I have to start with my camera at the top (bird's eye view) and finish my scene with the camera at ground level. The problem is that my end position is outside the stadium. Removing part of the stadium is easily done by using a "clip plane" in Houdini, I have done it many times. But now, this is a series and everything is done in EI. I can't find a way to clip just a section of my geometry. I would like to avoid doing it in a modeler and re-importing geometry. I thought of using a clipping map, but it involves a lot of objects. Is there a way to tell the camera not to render geometry before a determined distance, or something like tat? Thanks, Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
interstellar Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 Hi Christian, If your project renders quickly, you could try this brute-force method. Render the project twice: once with all the elements present and another with all the elements present except the stadium. Then, in After Effects, you could composite the two layers, put the first render on top and apply feathered mask to this top layer to clear away part of the stadium. Joe 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 Hey, The Tailor Tool pluggin will clip many pieces of geometry with control of the cutting edge. Not sure what you mean by a "determined distance". The Cutter object can be moved around easily. http://www.eias3d.com/products/konkeptoine-plugins/tailortool/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yhloon Posted May 29, 2013 Report Share Posted May 29, 2013 Hi Christian under preferences, Grid and Scale tab, there is a Perspective Clip at the bottom right corner, maybe that is what you are looking for.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted June 3, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 It's not a matter of having an object (stadium) on or off. I have to be able to slice it with a vertical plane, so the front is not visible to the camera. I have seen the Perspective Clip option but it didn't seem to do much. I will have to see if I can find more info on it. I'll check the Tailor tool plug-in, I have looked at it before and it may be a solution. Thank you all for your suggestions. Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwcc Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 Tailor Tool will do this, but it does not work at all in EIAS 9. (EIAS is aware of this) It works well in 8 but if the model that is getting sliced is very heavy (lots of polygons) it gets really slow. Hopefully they can fix the speed issue with the EIAS9 64 bit update. http://www.brianwhite.cc/temp/Tailor_time.jpg This is a short clip of an animation using TailorTool - I really wished I could have slowed down the cut-away effect and increased the density of the models but because of the rendering time (using TailorTool) I had to make compromises to meet the deadline... http://www.brianwhite.cc/temp/TT_clip.mov brian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted June 3, 2013 Report Share Posted June 3, 2013 Ola Brian! Thanks for the link.. you are correct, Tailor is not EIAS 9 ready yet. Note: I cant see your movie link. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwcc Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Ola Brian! Thanks for the link.. you are correct, Tailor is not EIAS 9 ready yet. Note: I cant see your movie link. Thanks Tom just curious - what does it do when click the link? it is a QuickTime .mov (H.264 mpg) are you on a mac or PC? can you try to right click on the link then download the file? let me know what you find out. thanks! brian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted June 4, 2013 Report Share Posted June 4, 2013 Ola Brian, Im on a Mac (OSX 10.6.8), I cant download too, take a look in the error: “ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.brianwhite.cc/temp/TT_clip.mov Access Denied. Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect. Your cache administrator is webmaster. Generated Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:45:52 GMT by localhost (squid/3.1.19)†Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thingmaker Posted June 5, 2013 Report Share Posted June 5, 2013 Strange. I can see both links correctly. The movie link comes right up and plays immediately. I am on Mac OS 10.8.3. -Derryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tango Posted June 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2013 Hi Brian, I can see both links no problem, on my macbookpro. Thanks for the sample animation, this is what I was trying to do. I modified the design and made it work, you know when you are in a pinch... I know I will need that tool eventually. I keep EI8 around for some plug-ins that are not working with 9 yet. Thanks for your help! Christian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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