Electric Image Animation System 7 Tutorials
Texturing / Importing Texture Images pt. 2
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Subtitles of the Movie (Electric Image Animation System 7 / Texturing / Importing Texture Images pt. 2)
Back to the main Material Window and let's turn off this texture. Click on the small. and it will disappear and the image is ignored by EI. Let's add a different image. Click Add and I'll pick this file. This image is very small and stretched. Let's go ahead and render a Snapshot. Kind of blurry. Double-click the image and go to its Projection tab. Now I'll change the Scale values to something smaller and let it Tile. Let's render another Snapshot. It looks better but the tiling is too obvious. This is a case where the image needs to be prepared properly in another program. Let's take a look at it in Photoshop. I can simulate the Tiling with the Offset Filter. Go to the Filter list and click Offset. I know my image has dimensions of 400 by 400 so I'll Offset Vertically by 200 and we immediately see the problem. The line here is where the top edge and the bottom edge meet in EI when the image is Tiled. This is an easy fix. I'll just Clone another area with the Rubber Stamp Tool over this line. There. Let's apply the Offset Filter again. This time, zero pixels vertically and 200 pixels horizontally. Now we see the scene where the left and right edges meet. Just another application of the Rubber Stamp Tool and now that's gone. Just save the image. Back in EI, Electric Image will use the revised image texture, and we'll change the Tiling Type to be a repeat pattern this time. Let's render a Snapshot. Much better. The image is still being tiled, but the tiling is much less obvious. You can use a still image or even video as a Texture in EI, and EI can use several file types: QuickTime, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, and several others, but EI has its own file type for images in animation called the Image File Type. If you run into a problem with your Texture working properly try saving it as an Image File, or .img, and use that instead. If you're creating your Textures in Photoshop you may need to install the Electric Image Image File Type Components into the Plugins folder in the main Photoshop folder. These extensions can be found in your Electric Image install disk. We'll talk more about the Image File type when we get to the rendering lessons.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Electric Image Animation System 7 |
| Author: | Scott Simmons |
| SKU: | 33996 |
| ISBN: | 1-935320-45-9 |
| Release Date: | 2009-06-01 |
| Duration: | 8 hrs / 102 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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