08-26-2008, 06:20 PM
ok, i think i've found what is causing the 'freezing' problem. when i have 'cubic' turned on, and animate expansion from a higher value to a lower value, the freezing 'leafy' cubic problem shows up, but not when expansion is static. this does not happen with cubic turned off.
it's tragic i'm having to keep from animating expansion because for doing explosions it is usually required to have expansion higher at the intial moment of a blast and then bring it down later on in the blast to keep it from expanding too much. many vfx filmakers also have this problem when filming practical blasts because sometimes they do not expand quickly enough at first so they speed up the start of the blasts in post.
perhaps this might be listed as a bug?
it's tragic i'm having to keep from animating expansion because for doing explosions it is usually required to have expansion higher at the intial moment of a blast and then bring it down later on in the blast to keep it from expanding too much. many vfx filmakers also have this problem when filming practical blasts because sometimes they do not expand quickly enough at first so they speed up the start of the blasts in post.
perhaps this might be listed as a bug?
BRIAN DEMETZ
Senior Technical Director
Final Light VFX
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