3D Animation Q/A

[gardener]

I have a question:

Can you integrate a animated gif picture or a video onto an object as the material?

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by gardener

I have a question:

Can you integrate a animated gif picture or a video onto an object as the material?

Yup, This in done in the material editor (press "M") Instead of choosing a bitmap or a picture as a texture choose the video file instead. Make sure in the parameteres below you set the frame when the video starts playing and if it loops or pingpongs. And you dont have to have it just be diffuse. You can also use the moive file for the other maps as well.

[Mr.Fraggs]

hey all what time is it due for submission ? east coast time ?

[Kevin Thorp]

5:00 pm Pacific = 8:00 pm Eastern.

But I'll bet there will be gridlock on Autodesk's upload site as hundreds of teams try to upload massive video files at the same time.

[Morgan Gillespie]

That is exactly why we uploaded ours before. A smoking 249.75mb. Cutting it close cannot even describe it.

[legotech25]

Originally Posted by Mercury Rising

That is exactly why we uploaded ours before. A smoking 249.75mb. Cutting it close cannot even describe it.

Question about file size... We tried rendering our animation, and it came out to 2 Gigabytes!!! how can we tone that down? is that a rendering problem and/or an animation problem?

background info... we have one character, sparse animation, and a slideshow of about 14 pictures in the background.

[Hyniora]

take a look on the number of frames you've put.... we had the same problem, but with 18GB... and 2.997 frames/s.... xD
hope it helped

[legotech25]

Originally Posted by Hyniora

take a look on the number of frames you've put.... we had the same problem, but with 18GB... and 2.997 frames/s.... xD
hope it helped

what do you mean by number of frames?

[BuddyB309]

Originally Posted by legotech25

what do you mean by number of frames?

Okay things that can jack up size of the video:

1- size of the video: If your video is 4096x4096 is going to be a larger file size. Render if out in 740x480

2-type of video compression: Your enty should be a Quicktime file and should have the NSTC codec. An umcompressed avi is ungodly large.

3-frames per sec: make sure your frames per sec are either 30, 24, or 29.97. If you set your frames per second to 60, 120, or 129,382,483,384 its going to be larger than it needs too

4- length of video: sometimes a program will render out 2 hours of black. Make sure your video is only the size it needs to be. Play the whole thing. If the little slider is still moving after your video is done playing, Then you have unwanted time of blackness.

[legotech25]

Originally Posted by BuddyB309

Okay things that can jack up size of the video:

1- size of the video: If your video is 4096x4096 is going to be a larger file size. Render if out in 740x480

2-type of video compression: Your enty should be a Quicktime file and should have the NSTC codec. An umcompressed avi is ungodly large.

3-frames per sec: make sure your frames per sec are either 30, 24, or 29.97. If you set your frames per second to 60, 120, or 129,382,483,384 its going to be larger than it needs too

4- length of video: sometimes a program will render out 2 hours of black. Make sure your video is only the size it needs to be. Play the whole thing. If the little slider is still moving after your video is done playing, Then you have unwanted time of blackness.

Ok, we tried following all of these things, but it's still 2 gig. Is there anything else I can try? If not, we're fine with not submitting. (we had plenty of trouble coming up with a concept. The animation is cool, but there's no real point to it)

By the way, thanks for everyone's help

[team 2244]

HELP US ! ! !
We are from Free Access Evolution Team and we are having problems trying to upload the animation. We developed the animation with all the specifications provided in www.autodesk.com/firstbase, but the upload didn't run. So now, we are thinking of making a new site to put our animation there, so we could tell FIRST the password to enter on the site. What do you think of this? Do you think t's possible?

P L E A S E A N S W E R U S ! ! !

Pedro (#2244)

[team 2244]

HELP US ! ! !
We are from Free Access Evolution Team and we are having problems trying to upload the animation. We developed the animation with all the specifications provided in www.autodesk.com/firstbase, but the upload didn't run. So now, we are thinking of making a new site to put our animation there, so we could tell FIRST the password to enter on the site. What do you think of this? Do you think t's possible?

P L E A S E A N S W E R U S ! ! !

Pedro (#2244)

[rastermon]

Originally Posted by team 2244

HELP US ! ! !
We are from Free Access Evolution Team and we are having problems trying to upload the animation. We developed the animation with all the specifications provided in www.autodesk.com/firstbase, but the upload didn't run. So now, we are thinking of making a new site to put our animation there, so we could tell FIRST the password to enter on the site. What do you think of this? Do you think t's possible?

P L E A S E A N S W E R U S ! ! !

Pedro (#2244)

You could put it on your website, but who knows if it will get included on the DVD, or judged.. send the link to FIRST.
I assume a mentor - or someone with upload authority was trying to upload the movie? I had no problems last night.

Rob

[team 2244]

yes it was a mentor who was trying to upload, but we received the answer from autodesk and they told us to stay calm, and try to upload...xD

we are trying to stay calm...xD

Tamires(#2244)[Hyniora]

[legotech25]

ok, so we got turned the file size down quite a bit, but now we can't figure out how to put in audio while in 3ds max 8... can someone help us out? (again)?