Fade Effect?

Here we go! I just made the Event Horizon bigger to cover up the problem:

blackholerender.gif

Note: It might run a little slow first time through, but then it should speed up.

-Max
 
whoa !

awesome stuff max !
is this the animation you had the freeze problems with ?
what mac do you use for rendering ?
is your background a hdri or are you moving a plane with the image ?
glad i could help with this !

- archie
 
No, this is a different animation.
As for what Mac, I use a 5-year-old MacBook Pro (still running fine! A little slow with rendering though)
And the background is a really great 3000x6000 pixel HDRI panorama I found in Wikipedia, here it is if you want to download it:
Link

Thank you for helping! I never would have quite gotten it without your help. :)

-Max
 
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Looking at a few more black hole pictures, I have realized there are a couple more things I need to fix.

1. I need to make the event horizon smaller, but there's a problem with that.
2. I need to add a second Einstein ring juuuust outside the event horizon, which I'm not sure how to do.

As for making the event horizon smaller, that itself isn't a problem, what the problem is is that it reveals an unwanted ring of mirror-distortion as seen in the picture below:

http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae163/Maxo12110/BHProblem.png?t=1280430972

See that mirror effect, just inside the first Einstein ring? I need to get rid of it in order to make the event horizon smaller.

As for the second Einstein ring, I'll do that after we figure out how to get rid of the unwanted distortion.

-Max
 
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podperson said:
I'm not clear on what you're trying to fade, but it seems to me that a quick visit to Uncle Photoshop / Acorn / GIMP / Pixelmator would solve the problem in a jiffy (feathered selection -- "boom"). If it's the distortion you want to finess, well that could be achieved in the aforesaid compositing tools too.

(If you wanted to animate the effect, you might pay a visit to Aunty Final Cut Pro or Cousin Motion.)
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Back at the beginning of this thread you show the following screenshot..

2010-07-29_1239.png


And I am wondering what are you using here - it's obviously not Cheetah3D (or is it)?

:confused:
 
Maxo12110 said:
Looking at a few more black hole pictures, I have realized there are a couple more things I need to fix.

1. I need to make the event horizon smaller, but there's a problem with that.
2. I need to add a second Einstein ring juuuust outside the event horizon, which I'm not sure how to do.

As for making the event horizon smaller, that itself isn't a problem, what the problem is is that it reveals an unwanted ring of mirror-distortion as seen in the picture below:

http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/ae163/Maxo12110/BHProblem.png?t=1280430972

See that mirror effect, just inside the first Einstein ring? I need to get rid of it in order to make the event horizon smaller.

As for the second Einstein ring, I'll do that after we figure out how to get rid of the unwanted distortion.

-Max
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hi max,
i'm very honored by your confidence only i've run out of tricks !
we had that mirror problem above already and i tried several hours and couldn't solve it.
now a second einstein ring, i have no idea.
it's also a function of the sphere geometry which we cannot change when we want to animate it.
i may give it another try but am very very skeptical.

- archie
 
Nice work

Very good your materials.:icon_thumbup:
I think it´s very good for movies with spaceships in space.
 
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@Archie: Sorry it took so long to get back, somehow the reply notification ended up in my spam folder!

That's fine if you can't, no worries, I guess I'm kinda being a little too perfectionist. :p

-Max
 
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