25 comments

• Comment Link Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:11 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

  Hey Rupert, wenn du bei meinem Resultat genau hinkuckst wirst du feststellen, dass sich die Farben da auch addieren. Das ist der "Add"-Effekt des Halo-Materials, den kannst du unter "Add" in den Material-Eigenschaften des Halos justieren.
• Comment Link Sunday, 27 May 2012 15:12 posted by Rupert

  Hi Gottfried
  
  Supertolles Tutorial erstmal. Auf die Idee bin ich nicht von selbst gekommen =) Danke auch für das motion Trail tool und die super Erklärung. Super - Nützlich ^^
  
  Ich hab im moment allerdings noch nen Problem. Ich weiss nicht obs an der Blender Version liegen könnte, aber immer wenn man hintereinander 2 trails hat mischen sie sich zu einem. Das ist ganz schän nervig wenn du versucht überlappende zu schaffen. Ich weiss nicht wie du es auch in deiner Beispielversion so gut hinbekommen hast das man immer erkennt welcher der teile des trails vorn ist. Ich sag mal wenn man durch nen großen laser schaut soll man die trails dahinter nicht mehr sehen. Bedauerlicherweise addieren sich die Farben für die Kamera. wie haste das hinbekommen?
  
  Danke für die Hilfe
  
  Rupert
• Comment Link Wednesday, 16 May 2012 12:30 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

  Hey Andrius, you can change the color of the background in the world settings :)
• Comment Link Tuesday, 15 May 2012 20:53 posted by Andrius

  Hi, its very nice tutorial, but I don't know how to make a white background. Maybe someone could help me?
  Thanks.
• Comment Link Tuesday, 13 March 2012 23:42 posted by Blendernoob

  just use "clamp to" instead "follow path" contrain,
  ikey start- and endframe while moving along the path with "g",
  then all frame interpolated particles get shown too.
  
  So, you do not get the "perl chains" like shown in the tutorial but continous light-streaks
  
  => you can use blender curves instead of the add-on curves (at least in 2.62)
• Comment Link Thursday, 29 December 2011 13:08 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

  Hey Chuck, unfortunately the Halo material is not yet implemented in Cycles. So at the moment, this is only working in Blender Internal renderer...
• Comment Link Wednesday, 28 December 2011 14:43 posted by Chuck Fletcher

  Hi, any idea how to get the streaks to appear with the cycles renderer? It works OK with the blender renderer but I can't see the streaks with cycles. I'm using an emitter but the single vertex particles arent visible.
• Comment Link Thursday, 18 August 2011 13:02 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

  Hey 3pointedit, I just checked r39488 and it's still there
• Comment Link Monday, 15 August 2011 12:27 posted by 3pointedit

  Great tutorial Gotttfried, I was trying it on a recent release (from 14/08/2011) but could not find an alpha value in Halo Texture. So I could not get the streak to fade at the ends. Has the particle/ strand texture changed since you made this tut?
• Comment Link Wednesday, 10 August 2011 06:31 posted by Karl

  Hello Simon. Yes I thinking of the same. Use a Bezier curve as follow the path. I try.
• Comment Link Tuesday, 09 August 2011 22:59 posted by Karl

  Hi Gottfried and thanks for a cool tutorial
  
  I tried several times to install your AddOn Motion Trail but it did not work for me
  
  http://www.pasteall.org/blend/8092
  
  http://vimeo.com/27507313
  
  
  I would like to write/type my name with this turorial and then do the loop as long than the 150 I need at least about 250 frames. How do I extend it.
  Thanks
• Comment Link Monday, 08 August 2011 23:18 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

  Mikey: Weird, the part you mention is actually an explanation and not a step-by-step-guide. So if you follow it step-by-step you probably will get lost. It requires some basic knowledge of color theory, though. I'm trying to explain a part there that I had not seen covered in other tutorials. I'll try to be clearer or try another explanation in further tutorials on the subject.
• Comment Link Monday, 08 August 2011 16:17 posted by Mikey

  I'd Love to do this tutorial, but it assumes a VERY high degree of texture knowledge. Starting at around 6:30, anyone who hasn't been using blender for many years will get completely lost. There is no mention of what you're doing, or why. It's just - "do this, this this this and then we have this". That section of the tutorial is not for anyone of medium or advanced knowledge of Blender - only experts. It's too bad. I watched that section 8 times, and get lost every time. I appreciate you doing this, but just realize that almost nobody will be able to follow it.
• Comment Link Thursday, 21 July 2011 23:06 posted by Joel Godin

  Ah, just after I posted I figured it out. Force field, curve path, check Path Animation in curve edit panel. But yes, the particles are not interpolated, not the emitter. Hope that gets fixed.
• Comment Link Thursday, 21 July 2011 22:48 posted by Joel Godin

  I used to be able to get particles to follow a path in 2.49, but cannot get it to work in 2.58. Any ideas on that?
• Comment Link Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:41 posted by str9led

  Best tutorial. Thank you very
• Comment Link Saturday, 25 June 2011 18:35 posted by Gottfried Hofmann

  Hey tarik - crouch is working on an update for the motion trail addon that should be ready in about two weeks - I hope that fixes the issues with 2.58!
• Comment Link Saturday, 25 June 2011 17:28 posted by tarik bagriyanik

  here it is:
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo3TnPkE-cQ
  
  blender 2.58 was unstable with Motion Trail, too much crashes.
  and i have trouble on "writing" a hand made text. it was not easy, but i did finished.
  
  Thank you for all your tutorials, and for quick replies.
  i also try to follow http://www.blenderguru.com (Andrew Price). He is also good at this blender 3d.
• Comment Link Sunday, 19 June 2011 14:53 posted by woutie

  Hi Gottfried,
  
  thanks for this great tutorial.
  Hope to learn from you soon!
  
  Greetings,
  Wouter
  The Letherlands
• Comment Link Sunday, 24 April 2011 16:23 posted by yahya

  thank you verey much
  its verey nice tutorial
  i hope to find a lot of it
  
  
  yahya - syria