i'm trying get the material effector from theforce.net to work but i cant get the sphere to burn any help this this one?

not sure what your doing but here is a material effector




http://johnl.inform.net/pages/matteffect.htm






In case you are using sprites/hair/streaks these matterials do not work with materal effectors

thats the one i am trying to do but i follow all instuctions and i can get it to work

this is the one i am trying to do but i cant get it to work http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/mater...n_animation.htm

The one I directed you to is the same method just in a newer version of AM

ok thats cool to know but how come i cant get it to work

did you try my project ?
if not try that first

otherwise try something simple

make a material that is red
apply it to a material effector
put thom in a chor and have material effector touch him
where it touches should turn red

Post your results

here's a v12 version

wireframe with 3 material effectors
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the other is I think v10

hmmmm i think i know what i did wrong in the tutorial it said i had to change the aim to somthing but i asumed it ment the role cause i cant find the aim can you point out the aim? and i'll see if i right when i get home

Aim is really the rotation angle of the material effector
If you set up material to start from right to left then by rotating the material effector you can get it to work left to right or top to bottom etc.
By changing the scale in the material effector setting you can adjust the results of the material effect also. I'll try to get a tut out this week

just a quick example

shape and material effector did not move but rotated effector and scaled it as the frames increase


could have some use


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will try to set up tut

cool i'll try it now

ok what is going on here? i set it up just like in the tutorial but it didn't work it just effected the ground a bit

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and heres the project

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well i tried a few things and i got some ware but i still didnt get the effect i was looking for but its still kinda cool

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Cuboos
can not see what you did you did not embed material or model in project file. Make sure you embed before saving.

oh sorry my bad here ya go

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cuboos

Your material was fine you just were using it incorrectly for the model . I rearranged a few things and then added another idea. On the qt you can see a cube burn using your material with a pose slider. This makes an alternative to the material effector that effects everything it touch as you noticed the ground change in your test. I then used your material with the effector to burn thom out of existence.
Your material is made to work from the direction left to right.

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have fun