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Hi, I just wanted to see if people would be interested in this idea
before taking the time to create the tutorial.<br>
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As for my other pages, like I said before I haven't worked on them
for several months due to lack of review, I hate to say it, but it's
just been too long since I posted them and I lost interest in
editing them a long time ago. I also might not be completely up to
date on any new changes since then, and college just started for me,
so I'd rather not have to worry about having to "pick up" on
projects that have been out of my mind for so long.... sorry :(<br>
<br>
<blockquote>If anyone would like to take them over....<br>
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<p><a
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Build"
title="User:Sascha
Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modifiers/Generate/Build">Build
Modifier</a> </p>
<div style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; padding:0px
5px; color:blue; background-color:lightblue; font-weight:
bold; font-size:smaller; width: 135px; float:left;
text-align:center;">done</div>
<p><br>
<a
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Mode"
title="User:Sascha
Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Mode">Particle Mode</a> !In
need of help verifying accuracy of information!
</p>
<div style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1px; padding: 0px
5px; color: green; background-color: lightgreen; font-weight:
bold; font-size: smaller; width: 135px; float: left;
text-align: center;">in progress <img alt="Inprogress100.jpg"
src="cid:part3.05050700.06090407@gmail.com" height="8"
width="25"> 90%</div>
<p><br>
<a
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Cache_And_Bake"
title="User:Sascha
Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Cache And Bake">Cache
and Bake</a>
</p>
<div style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; padding:0px
5px; color:blue; background-color:lightblue; font-weight:
bold; font-size:smaller; width: 135px; float:left;
text-align:center;">done</div>
<p><br>
<a
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Properties/Strands"
title="User:Sascha
Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Materials/Properties/Strands">Strands</a>
</p>
<div style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; padding:0px
5px; color:blue; background-color:lightblue; font-weight:
bold; font-size:smaller; width: 135px; float:left;
text-align:center;">done</div>
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<br>
I think they are finished, but they may require some minor tweaks.
other than that, they really only need to be reviewed for accuracy
by someone more knowledgeable than myself, and posted to the main
wiki.<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
<br>
I hope to help again in the future when the wiki is more active, but
right now I just have too many things I need to worry about without
adding wiki editing to the list.<br>
I'm fine with creating the tutorial if enough people think it will
actually be used though.<br>
<br>
<i><b>[forwarded email below]</b></i><br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/09/2012 5:09 PM, Kesten Broughton
wrote:<br>
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<blockquote
cite="mid:CAO2fFsUrVjH_ZX+TE97UNDwpVHq7ObzOaW8wv7jg-RgKbEQEmA@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite"><u><b>it's tremendous.</b></u><u><b><br>
</b></u><u><b>Could you put your steps up on your user page and
add a link to the particles page "How to add animations" or
something below the animation? I think many contribs will be
interested in adding something like this to their page.</b></u><b><br>
</b>
<br>
k<br>
<br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Sascha <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:snowleopard.uncia24@gmail.com" target="_blank">snowleopard.uncia24@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="im"> <b><i>"First off, great work! I
especially love the animation of the main step. Any
tricks to how to accomplish that?"</i></b><br>
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Well here is what I did, mostly with free software, but
easily done with 100% free software<br>
<br>
<br>
I used hypercam 2.0 (free) to record a small area (zoomed
out) using the lossless UT Video codec (also free) at about
20FPS, although you could just use your .gif's target frame
rate.<br>
<br>
I processed resulting video clip using adobe after effects
(use virtual dub maybe?) and exported individual frames at a
very low frame rate.<br>
<br>
load all of the layers in to GIMP (file>open as layers),
and <b>change the image mode to indexed</b>, use a small
palette to keep file size down. <br>
click <b>filter>animation>optimize (for gif)</b>.
this step is very important as it crops out the unchanged
pixels (within a box area) between frames. the size
difference between optimized and non-optimized can be
enormous if only a small part of the image changes each
frame.<br>
all that is left to do is save it. remember to specify the
ms delay between frames to run the animation at the right
speed. <br>
the resulting animated gif will be very small. the one I
uploaded was 30 frames at a total of only 26 KB<br>
<br>
it's a bit of work, but the results are well worth it, and
it can help greatly to explain the process in certain
topics.<br>
<br>
use lossless recording if at all possible, it will just make
the automatic .gif palette generation in gimp produce a
smaller palette, and will just look nicer and be easier to
work with than say, an mp4 recording?<br>
a smaller palette may not reduce file size much, but it
could cut down a bit in some animations. The most important
thing is to optimize for gif, or wiki viewers will be
loading several 400 KB files instead of a few tiny 26 KB
files. If the animation has a lot of stuff moving,
optimization won't help as much.
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<div>On 05/09/2012 3:45 PM, Kesten Broughton wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">Hi sacha,<br>
<br>
First off, great work! I especially love the
animation of the main step. Any tricks to how to
accomplish that?<br>
I've put my comments on the Discussion page and added
a picture at the bottom incase you find it helpful.
Discard it otherwise. (note, i didn't follow proper
naming convention for the pic, but not sure how to
edit it now).<br>
<br>
In general, i think you should add a few more details
to your steps (as outlined in my comments on
Discussion). This is especially important if we are
having non-expert reviewers, as it really slows things
down having to look up steps i'm not familiar with.
You can either give details yourself or provide links
(if they exist) to other wiki pages that describe
steps in more detail. <br>
<br>
I'm about half way done. I'll try to finish it off
shortly.<br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Mode"
target="_blank">http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/User:Sascha_Uncia/Doc:2.6/Manual/Physics/Particles/Mode</a><br>
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Kesten Broughton<br>
President and Technology Director, <br>
Solar Mobile Trailers<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.sunfarmkitchens.ca" target="_blank">kesten@solarmobiletrailers.com<br>
www.sunfarmkitchens.ca</a><br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="tel:512%20701%204209"
value="+15127014209" target="_blank">512 701 4209</a><br>
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-- <br>
<br>
Kesten Broughton<br>
President and Technology Director, <br>
Solar Mobile Trailers<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.sunfarmkitchens.ca"
target="_blank">kesten@solarmobiletrailers.com<br>
www.sunfarmkitchens.ca</a><br>
512 701 4209<br>
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