woah, keyframe diffuse color change, a way to save animated shader??

Mistara

woah no one told me  cans keyframe a colo(u)r change in diffuse channel. 
this solves so many problems

 

so i guess next question, can save blinking colors in nla clip

or can save a pose of every channelcept the texture map

WendyLuvsCatz

You can keyframe almost everything in the shader tabs

including glow channel colour and intensity if using an operator

and use image series

in displacement even

its probably my most used feature in animation as works in other render engines too like Octane 

Mistara

kewl,  wanna see if can save as a pose.  fighting fatigue atmo.  ate too many nutter butters.

WendyLuvsCatz

Mystarra said:

kewl,  wanna see if can save as a pose.  fighting fatigue atmo.  ate too many nutter butters.

 

I have saved various animated shaders and could use an NLA clip not a pose as such

Mistara

might be able to notepad hack a single frame. mebbe 

WendyLuvsCatz

I am lost 

you want to save a shader you just save a shader

if you don't want it animated you remove the keyframes

dunno why or how you would save a pose for a shader

but if you wanted to change the animation to one you could do an NLA clip for it but it would be for just that shader

Mistara

huh rosty gallery won't play animated gif

can't post test anywhere

Mistara

SadKitty_Carrara said:

I am lost 

you want to save a shader you just save a shader

if you don't want it animated you remove the keyframes

dunno why or how you would save a pose for a shader

but if you wanted to change the animation to one you could do an NLA clip for it but it would be for just that shader

 

would save a pose for a shader if it won't overright the loaded texture map

Mistara

4 years later  NLA still mysterious.

Mistara

SadKitty_Carrara said:

You can keyframe almost everything in the shader tabs

including glow channel colour and intensity if using an operator

and use image series

in displacement even

its probably my most used feature in animation as works in other render engines too like Octane 

image series on a prop  is the real fun stuff.

 

scifi funk made a tutorial on it. avi on a blimp.

his tutts are down, rummaging thru old flash drives for it.  

WendyLuvsCatz

Avi gives me nothing but grief in Carrara.

why I use image series

you seem to see no issues maybe you have better codec packages with your expensive video editing softwares 

Catherine3678ab

I render stills, paste 'em together in Pinnacle.

Mistara

i using the SONY software.  until i can get my mini mac

Mistara

image series, you go to every frame to upload an image in shader room?

or you upload the whole sequence at once?

WendyLuvsCatz

Mystarra said:

image series, you go to every frame to upload an image in shader room?

or you upload the whole sequence at once?

At once

when you open an image you can choose sequence 

Mistara

SadKitty_Carrara said:

Mystarra said:

image series, you go to every frame to upload an image in shader room?

or you upload the whole sequence at once?

At once

when you open an image you can choose sequence 

that sounds more realistic. 

i have a personal rule of 10 seconds.  if is 300 frames or less i render uncompressed avi.

i didn't put money into gpu, went for the ocatcore. octane does look nice tho

WendyLuvsCatz

don't need a great GPU if not using a GPU based renderer

it just worked out cheaper for me to settle for less CPU and  the price of Octane with a decent card

I actually love Carrara native engine but would need a multi Xeon render farm to get the times

Mistara

nm

Mistara

beginning to feel christmas,  carrara animated shader. 

started a site folder for Carrara3dX

about to try shader on other pc   ...  aww it added frames, but not the key frames, applied omly the first red frame

tha nla tab doesnt show when i select clor track or the object

a lil bummed it didnt work.  on other pc was abl to apply it to 2nd object in same scene

Mistara

when i save the cube to tray, animated shader saves with it.

so i guess one workflow would be to load in the cube to bring the shader in

WendyLuvsCatz

The shader itself should save too, drag the ball into the browser

Mistara

it only saved the first frame.  on my pc  

i don't understand why the nla tab doesn't appear

hopefully these brain teasers are protecting me from alzheimers

WendyLuvsCatz

Mystarra said:

it only saved the first frame.  on my pc  

i don't understand why the nla tab doesn't appear

hopefully these brain teasers are protecting me from alzheimers

NLA you need an animation group

odd the shader didn't save with keyframes

Mistara

tried grouping the shader track with the cube to make animation group.  group is grayed out

woulda thought anything with keyframes would activate the nla tab.  

mebbe a 2nd shot of jamieson will revv it up

Mistara

i want it to do more than change colors

want shimmering with noise speckes and turbulence

DesertDude

As far as I know (...which isn't very far...) animated shaders can't be part of an NLA track, despite evidence they *possibly* can be. I started a thread a while ago, but I think the concept is a dead end, or was never fully implemented.

(Pure speculation on that last part...)

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/339011/animate-shader-in-an-nla-clip#latest

Cheers all

WendyLuvsCatz

forgotten what I have tried with my music visualization that worked or didn't

I just managed to give Carrara a Nil pointer error playing with Veloute and Shoestring shaders animated though

DesertDude

SadKitty_Carrara said:

forgotten what I have tried with my music visualization that worked or didn't

I just managed to give Carrara a Nil pointer error playing with Veloute and Shoestring shaders animated though

Wendy, you're Nikola Tesla level genius 

 

Mistara

was hoping to save only selected channels in the shader

WendyLuvsCatz

DesertDude said:

SadKitty_Carrara said:

forgotten what I have tried with my music visualization that worked or didn't

I just managed to give Carrara a Nil pointer error playing with Veloute and Shoestring shaders animated though

Wendy, you're Nikola Tesla level genius 

 

The high tension powerlines I follow to the shops are sizzling in the rain, I was imagining Tesla coils sparking and crackling

Mistara

so far, the only thing works is to set the shader on an object. save the obj,

bring obj into fresh scene to bring in the shader, then apply the shader to obj desired

tried again to save as shader, only saves the first frame

and i just noticed, lol, selecting shader in bottom shader tab, shows all the instances the shader is used on 

attached is the primitive, if anyone wants to test bringing it into scene for the animated shader.
(not really zipped, manually typed zip extenstion)