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pretty simple. take a plane with about 8x8 segments and add a noise modifier. you will have to adjust the amplitude/frequecy of the noise to get the desired effect.

if you want a wad of crumpled paper, you can do it the same way, only with a lot more noise, and you can squish the vetices here and there to make it look more spherical. you can also use a sphere with a noise modifier and an opacity map, but that gets kinda wierd, and doesn't work too well.

@ darkstar, no you cannot keyframe the evnironment background to my knowledge. and to get the forms you have to download the streamline program. in the program you have to log in to the FIRST account. I don't know what the password or anything is right now. once in, the forms are in the file "2006 autodesk visualization entry" or something like that.

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Thank you very much for your help. By chance though does anyone about a free movie editting software that works good with quicktime filles?

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Just download the trial version of adobe premier. Gets you 30 days, more time than you need, to put the animation together.

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where do you download it from?

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Adobe.com at least the last time I check its on the company's website.

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Well i am pretty much done with the bed and making a couple other models and then moving on to texturing and animating.

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COOL, WHAT'S WITH THE BED AGAIN? :confused:

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Well I have been working with cloth for a while and finally got it to look ok and since time is getting short I got to do other things. The textures won't be there in the actual animation there just fillers.

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looks real good. i like how the edges of the sheet turned out, kinda like there is a crease or a fold there.

how did the paper turn out?

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I only got teh bed down then had to study for some tests and work on projects. Ill finish the paper today and post tonight hopefully.

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Yay! My animation is almost done! :D

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Since were getting closer to due dates for animation I felt like releasing a pic from my animation to ask for help on how to get a certain effect.

I want to zoom in on teh computer and its turned off. I want the screen to have a small light source in the middle of the screen like it is just starting up, then flash or blink whiting out teh screen for a second and then it goes back to teh computer and it somehow opens and looks like a vortex or black taht would pulls the camera inside teh computer. If anyone can picture this and help me would be nice.

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Also I made some trophies are team has earned so far.

cant get a glass look some of the parts of the trophy though.

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On the entry form for the ava, the part taht talks about music. I have some non copyrighted songs that I didnt create but want to use. How would I write taht on the form?

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for the entry form, there is a line on the the form where you write the name of the song and artist. be sure to include a copy of a paper that gives you permission to use copyrighted material with the forms.

for the glass, turn up the specular level and the glossiness of the material. that will help a lot.

for the screen thing, you can use a gif or an avi file as a moving texture for whatever happens on the screen. for a glow, use a omni light with the glow and ray lens effects on it. put it inside the monitor so it won't show, then pull it out whe you want the glow to show.

for the vortex, use a tube with a cool swierly texture on it, and hide it inside the monitor, only to expand it when the time comes for much vortex-pwning.

i had written a better tutorial on this, but my computer messed up on me, so if you need a better explaination, let me know an ill type it up again.