Strata 3D Help

Yes thats wright i need help,

I'm attempring to put a flame onto a missle I rendered. But It wont work. In the fiel with just the flame it works when you press the render button, I get a nice blue flame. But the second I move it into the missle file it stops. Or when i move the missle into the flame file. The flame file is a .ssh and the missle is a .s3d. Is there a conflect or something. If you want me to send you the files just5 email me at jager@evula.net

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Jager, what are you modeling the flame as? Are you making a fountain object with a flame texture+metaballs or using a lens flare or did you make the geometry by reshaping using bezier modeling?

Sorry but you really didn't give enough info for anyone to help you heh. If you're using a fountain effect it needs to have the timeline set forward a few seconds to show up.

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Just put them in the same graphics file when you start.

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I DONT KNOW. I didn't make the file. It was DownLoaded of of stratcafe. In teh modles section under resources. in Sci-Fiction. I will send you the file. but from what I can tell its a cone with a colour/texture that looks like a flame. But I will try to set the time line ahead and see what happens

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Just checked the colour. And it sayes its a fog. I had the 'flame' in place where I want it. and set the time .02 secs ahead. But then strata crshed. so I'm trying again

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By recreating the fog i was able to get the affect to work.. thanks though

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Look (url="http://"http://jager.evula.net/pictures2/misslewithaflame.jpg")here(/url) to see the almost finished missle

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Originally posted by Jager:
Look here to see the almost finished missle

Not bad. But you need to work on the texturing and detail.

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I dont have any textures that would look good.... But details are comming

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Looking quite good now but the bottom and right fins need to both be rotated through 180 degrees in the z-axis. As I remember, you may need to ungroup the fins first.

ewan

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(This message has been edited by Jules (edited 07-01-2002).)

I know. i only cought that last night after I got home from work (1AM) so it took me forever to fix it.. Very slow at night. Anyways when are you going to be back on AIM ewan? Because I would realy like it if you could continue to help me along. My next project is to make a simple ship

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Ok next problem
(drum role)
I need some help puting backgrounds into strata files. i have the background as a .JPG and I dont know what to do now..

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