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| Hi, It sounds like the problem is not the displacement - FreeFrom can handle this - but the fact you need the lighting and shading to go along with the distortion. This is actually the problem we faced when doing the building projections for Melbourne (see my earlier post). We used a combination of FreeForm to do the distortion, and the plugin Z-Born Toy to get the lights and shadows. Both plugins used the same displacement map, and the result worked well. Z-Born toy is not free, but you can download the demo to see if it works for you. You will definitely need to read the help files though! http://www.frischluft.com/zborntoy/index.php Normality is a free plugin that does some similar things, but last time I checked it didn't generate shadows from light sources. But it is free, and again it might help you out: http://www.3dcg.net/software/normality/ Otherwise you could try experimenting with the CC Glass plugin, which comes with After Effects, and is OK for simple bump maps. Cheers, -Chris On 04/04/2012, at 5:20 AM, sus wrote: > 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). > > 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. > > Any suggestions for either a specific technique or plugin? > > Cheers > S > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to <ae-list-off@media-motion.tv> > |
