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be careful, though. They won't anti-alias.
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Brad Friedman
Sent: 01 June 2005 16:53
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Re: Tag Channels
my recollection is that you just import em like any other sequence of
images. They'll show as a bright patchwork of colors in the shapes of your
objects. I filtered out individual objects by color and used them as
mattes.
my plan for my thesis was to render out a matte pass at a higher res than
the beauty pass. the color was going to be a black and white hold out of
the main character (because fur doesn't work well with tags and my character
is full of fur). And I was going to spit out a tag pass along with it.
That way, the fact that the tag pass is not anti-aliased would not be as
much of a problem. I'd scale down that layer in the composite once I had
extracted the non AA-d matte.
But if what Matt said is true (I checked my mail archive to be sure I was
not confused about what was said) then it may not work on animated
sequences. Which would be a shame. I'll have to run tests before I start
rendering. But thats months away for me.
-brad
Byron Nash wrote:
Forgive my ignorance with the FX Tree I don't use it much. I poked around
the Docs and the FX Tree effects but couldn't find much about the Tag files.
Do you have to do anything special to them or just import them?
Byron Nash
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> owner-xsi@(protected)
[mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Brad
Friedman<BR><B>Sent:</B> 01 June 2005 16:53<BR><B>To:</B>
XSI@(protected)<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Tag Channels<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>my recollection is that you just import em like any other sequence
of images. They'll show as a bright patchwork of colors in the shapes
of
your objects. I filtered out individual objects by color and used them
as mattes.<BR><BR>my plan for my thesis was to render out a matte pass at a
higher res than the beauty pass. the color was going to be a black and
white hold out of the main character (because fur doesn't work well with tags
and my character is full of fur). And I was going to spit out a tag
pass
along with it. That way, the fact that the tag pass is not anti-aliased
would not be as much of a problem. I'd scale down that layer in the
composite once I had extracted the non AA-d matte.<BR><BR>But if what Matt
said is true (I checked my mail archive to be sure I was not confused about
what was said) then it may not work on animated sequences. Which would
be a shame. I'll have to run tests before I start rendering. But
thats months away for me.<BR><BR>-brad<BR><BR>Byron Nash wrote:
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