The actual effect is great to simulate your character running at speed etc.

To use the Cosmic Hero Effect 07 just add it to your scene. It will show with a dummy sprite. At the desired point on the timeline  you want the effect to play, just open the Sprite Editor and switch to the Effect sprite. It will then play. You can then Hide the dummy sprite for the parts you don't want it visible by using the Show/Hide button on the top toolbar.

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

How to use the Cosmic Hero Effect 07 as in the vid?



YouTube Tutorials Here

Hi Eho

Have you seen the two video tutorials below? They will take you through the process of creating a character from a single image. This should get you started. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvo83Qjx_2s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wu-L0jpOEM

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

Considering I was recently involved with a company that still try to market what amounts to 1994 styled Powerpoint Audience-patronizing presentations, I'd have said this was a superb addition to their quest. I will watch this and see how I can mix it with iClone.

Armstrong.

The CTA is really fabulous and meets our needs for animation, but as I am of Brazil and for you Americans, it's kind of complicated the lack of detailed tutorials and personalized think about for me here in Brazil. I read English well but is complicated when we have questions we want to take. We want to buy the program and the packages but must be well prepared with the program. Please help me.

Hello, friends. I'm from Brazil and our company is very interested in acquiring the CTA so I can work in the animation of our characters, but there are still some questions that need to take. As yet there is no training of Reallusion in Portuguese, I'm having to learn practically alone here in the company about the program. I downloaded all the tutorials and manuals possible but have not found something very detailed step by step how to do certain processes. For example, what programs were used to model those characters (Flash?) And how to outline these in detail.
I found the tutorials need to be detailed in this direction. How do I build my characters in detail, finally, more detailed step by step. Can anyone help me please?

For what its worth if you go into the developer area there are LOTS of written instructions in there and I was able to put together a custom animation of the mascot of my college. I have some kinks to work out before I share it but I found the instructions very informative and they had step by step images with good instruction.

Schwabby

I fully understand your point and hopefully in the near future some complete beginners tutorials can be introduced that will indeed take you step by step through the basic procedures.

In the meantime I would advise spending some time with the CTA Help Guide which will explain the interface and where all the buttons are placed. Then when you are watching the tutorials they will be easier to follow.

Thank you for the feedback. It is appreciated.

                                                                

Peter
Forum Administrator

www.reallusion.com

I'll have to agree with some of the comments here... when i first purchased the software I almost wanted my money back because I couldn't do some of the things I wanted with it. I literally had to open the tutorial in VLC Media Player (free software) so that I could slow them down to 1/4 speed and TRY to figure on what they were clicking.

The narrator would say "Switch to xxx view and click the yyy icon to do this..."

And I was like, "How do I switch to that view?" Then when I finally figured out the view... I was like, "Okay... where is the yyy icon?" and I spent several more minutes trying to find it.

Take a look at one of the videos for Swish (a FLASH program) for example... they do them properly...
http://www.swishzone.com/tutorials/max3/wizard_gallery001_walkthrough/

They go through each step... then they tell you what button they are going to press, what it does, show you where it is... etc. You can actually follow along and do each step. Even if you had never heard of the software... after one of their tutorials I'm sure you could use the software.

I appreciate your tutorials... but please... please... don't assume we know how all the features of the program work and/or where they are. Remember... it is easier for us to fast-forward past something we know than it is to watch the video 5 times trying to catch a glimpse of "What the hell did he just click?"

Thanks,
Jerry

Askjerry... everyone else does.

FINALLY Visconti.............. FINALLY. This always has been one of iCLones biggest understated potentials.
I'm up for this.:cool:

Armstrong.