post your eye melty abstracts here

[norty303]

Not yet, otherwise I wouldn't have posted what I did

Do you have experience of either of those in the context of what I'm talking about?

P.S. thanks everyone, at least I know its all there, and probably more simply than I imagined it.

[White-Light]

Norty, I've just had a play around.

Soft line endings doesn't have enough range however Power Effect may achieve what you want to.

I can't tell in straight Power mode as you really need a projector connected as in preview all the points look the same, but if you switch mode to Gradient, then its possible to get this (i've left the settings in view):

Image removed as not relevant


In addition to start / finish, you can also adjust the gradient by shifting the mid point manually if you don't want it entirely linear (I've done this if you look in the graph area).

BTW I didn't adjust the 100% end of the graph as its in 50% brightness in the shot above. If you want a transition from 0% to 100% brightness then you need to click the end colour and set the slider to 100% (sorry got it wrong from memory).

[norty303]

That doesn't appear to affect depth though Al, just how the line fades.
Imagine a cylinder of 6 lines using roto clone, viewed from the side (so we're viewing the edge of the cylinder rather than looking down the end of it).
3 or so of the lines will be making up the far side of the cylinder and thus further away than the nearer lines.
So those lines need to be dimmer than the nearer 3 lines.
If you then rotate the cylinder so we ARE looking down the end of it, then all 6 lines will need to be faded farthest away from the viewing point.
So the fading is dynamic based on orientation, not fixed to the line.

[White-Light]

Yeah it just puts a fade on the line. Where there's some motion it may be possible to offset that using speed and oscillation rather than a linear effect however, it could be difficult with a rotating cylindrical arrangement.

At this point I'm going to say you're probably going to need to request this as a feature addition from Bill. I haven't had much to do with Beyond recently so I'm not that familiar with the last few builds, but prior to that I can't think of anything that would achieve it purely on a perspective basis unless something is possible in B3D.

[norty303]

Ok, turns out its very easy to do in Beyond (and Alexey says in QS too). I just had a quick play in Beyond.
Apply a brightness effect and under options choose 'By Z Axis', 'Gradient' and 'Brightness Control' (obvious really!)
I found you then need to lay with the Action Start/End sliders to get the gradient where you want in the image and to get the desired amount of effect

[White-Light]

Ok, turns out its very easy to do in Beyond (and Alexey says in QS too). I just had a quick play in Beyond.
Apply a brightness effect and under options choose 'By Z Axis', 'Gradient' and 'Brightness Control' (obvious really!)
I found you then need to lay with the Action Start/End sliders to get the gradient where you want in the image and to get the desired amount of effect

Thanks for posting this Norty. Just had a play, so simple (2 clicks), yet so hidden if you didn't know! Great thing is I see you can apply it to 4 other axis other than Z, or I suppose with multiple instance of brightness to multiple axis at once for combined effects. Actually looking very useful therefore.

[colouredmirrorball]

what 4 other axes?! beyond has 5D control now?!

[White-Light]

Ok maybe "axis" is a small misnomer.

X, Y, Radius, Time.

[norty303]

I've attached a couple of Beyond cues I've been playing with. My intention has been to simply create some shapes that evolve by themselves in a few different ways. There are a couple of audio triggered effects in them (may be disabled currently) to add a dynamic element to them with music.
I'm afraid I don't have a screen capture app installed on my show laptop at the moment, so no video I'm afraid.
Any good ones I should look at? I try and keep my show PC as clean as possible so don't want loads of freeware stuff on it if I can help it.

Beyond Cues.rar

[swamidog]

working on some stuff for a new show...