Return-Path: Received: from smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net ([64.202.165.183] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 4675185 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:22:52 +0200 Received: (qmail 10342 invoked from network); 3 Apr 2012 20:23:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (76.254.61.90) by smtpauth03.prod.mesa1.secureserver.net (64.202.165.183) with ESMTP; 03 Apr 2012 20:23:19 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1257) Subject: Re: [AE] help with displacement From: sus In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:23:18 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: To: "After Effects Mail List" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1257) Thanks - I'll look at it again. Is Freeform in AE5.5 the same as = Freeform v2 on the Mettle site? On Apr 3, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Chris Bobotis wrote: > FreeForm should do this. Did you add an AE light and camera when = trying FreeForm? >=20 > Check out the tutorial section of our website. You should find some on = FreeForm and 3D displacement mapping. >=20 > Cheers, > Chris > Mettle.com >=20 >=20 >=20 > On 2012-04-03, at 3:20 PM, sus wrote: >=20 >> I need to deform a surface with texture which is within moving video. = The deformation needs to look like memory foam and needs to be based on = text and/or illustrations (as if a title has been pushed into foam and = is slowly un-deforming back to a flat surface). =20 >>=20 >> I made a displacement map for the text and have tried mesh warp, = displacement map, path distort and DE_FreeForm but none of the results = look like believable 3d z displacement. The pixels look like they are = displaced in x and y, but they do not look they move or are shaded in z. >>=20 >> Any suggestions for either a specific technique or plugin? >>=20 >> Cheers >> S >>=20 >>=20 >>=20 >> +---End of message---+ >> To unsubscribe send any message to >=20 >=20 >=20 > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to