It's curtains. Looking for a way to start.

[hizenberg]

Hello,

So the idea is to have a translucent curtain that appears over a black-ish background. Think more sheet than curtain; it has creases and some folds--it looks 3D and wavers a little in the wind. A rectangular sheet that billows gently and just a little. After a brief interval, a series of images will fade in and out behind it.

I'm guessing from the very little that I know that this might be an After Effects kind of thing; but I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in flash, adapting the page turner code. I've tried a few trials, to disasterous effect. So before moving further, I wanted to get some ideas.

Petefs references 3dsmax in another thread (http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=47065&highlight=sheet). I'm not seeing any of that environment available for the mac.

I'm grateful for ideas or pointers.

--hizenberg

[petefs]

Maya runs great on mac osx ; )

But all that aside, it could be done in after effects certainly (fractal noise to generate a displacement map for a nice textile scan). To simulate this in flash using actionscript is another story. Let me think about it for a little : )

[hizenberg]

Thanks Pete, I'll look into after effects for this, but I'm so much more wanting to learn one app at a time. Old dog, you see. I'm just getting used to having given up fortran.

I appreciate your giving thought to a flash approach.

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Maya runs great on mac osx ; )

But all that aside, it could be done in after effects certainly (fractal noise to generate a displacement map for a nice textile scan). To simulate this in flash using actionscript is another story. Let me think about it for a little : )

[petefs]

I'll give you a hint -- It's going to involve a few copies of a textile texture, some masks, some rotation, and some black->0%alpha gradients. It's just a matter of analyzing how cloth moves in a slight breeze. I think I have a movie of that on my HDD so I'll get around to looking at it in a few hours. It would be a nice effect to have in my arsenal ^_^

[petefs]

by the way, how are you doing with the soft focus text? if you're still having problems with that I think I can whip something together while I'm at it : )

[hizenberg]

I'm grateful for that (believe me)--and for the hint above. (Please don't do any extra work; you've been a tremendous help already).

The best answer: bite the bullet and brain fissure my way through After Effects. Why does art have have to be so damn hard.

I really am quite grateful-

by the way, how are you doing with the soft focus text? if you're still having problems with that I think I can whip something together while I'm at it : )