Samples of what effects do?
Is there a tutorial or something that shows/explains what the various effects can do on sheets? Like some examples of what it looks like/can be used for?
I'm trying to blend some poly's of different shades of oceans so it goes from a light to darker blue. I feel like the edge blur is what I want, but a general place or list of the various effects and what they do/how they work would be great.
Comments
You can check out Ralf's videos on youtube. He goes through each effect and demonstrates what it does.
Meanwhile, I've a fair hand at blending. Show me what you have and I may be able to assist.
Cal
This is the video Calibre mentioned above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y9NRUm2jHg
They're also all listed with a brief description in the accompanying program manual, page 65 and onwards in the current version.
Thanks Monsen! I figured there was, but I'm actually away from home, so the manual is not available easily. But I'll definitely keep that in mind.
Loopysue and Calibre, thanks. I will watch his video to see what I can get from it. I like Ralf's stuff, so I'm sure it will be what I need. I'll post my map a bit later Cal. I'm still pretty new so its nothing super special, but I'd appreciate the help.
If you would like to take a look at what I've got so far. I have made sheets for the layers of ocean depth. Still not as smooth a transition as I'd like, but I think its passable.
Any suggestions on how to smooth out the transitions further? (*I forgot to turn the effects back on before I uploaded the FCW)
Here is a jpeg of it for anyone that doesnt want to open the FC
To smooth out the transitions a bit on the sea things, try making the "Edge Fade, Inner" effect have an "Outer Opacity" of 0% instead of 30% and try pushing the blur amount on the Blur, Alpha up a bit (say, 4 or so). Doing those two things gives this:
Those ocean transitions aren't going to get much smoother due to how the textures work. You can get a similar but less costly to compute effect by turn off the Blur, Alpha effects and setting the Edge Fade, Inner to the following settings: