Height Mapping in V5

PeterWright wrote on 11/2/2004, 12:33 AM
After doing this fine in V4, I'm trying to do some height and/or displacement mapping in V5 to make some text float, and failing miserably.

I've read 3 tutorials and watched two DVD sessions, but they're all V4, and as there are differences in Parent Child compositing in V5 - I'm hoping this is why I'm failing.

Anyway - can anyone point to a V5 tute on this?

Thanks.

(I'm doing some work for clients who have "water" in their name, and own beachside resorts, so it's too good a chance to miss!)

Comments

Spot|DSE wrote on 11/2/2004, 12:40 AM
The differences are minute.
What I'd do were I you, is download the tutorial veg from the VASST site. (I assume that's one of the tutorials you saw) and dissect it in V5.
Track one is controlling media. (Parent)
Track two is media being controlled. (child)
Track three is underlying media.
Track one is in Custom Compositing mode, set to Height.
Track two is child to track one, is likely your text track or logo track.
So, water goes on track one, text or logo on track two.
PeterWright wrote on 11/2/2004, 1:20 AM
Thanks Douglas - I'll try it out in a while - client (different project) about to arrive - I think I'm suffering from "too much knowledge" - I read somewhere about having to use Mask Generator in V5, and also some confusion about Parent Compositing mode vs Track Compositing - two similar buttons.

At the moment I've got a logo two tracks lower that is "floating", yet it's not a child of any other .... anyway gotta go ..

PeterWright wrote on 11/2/2004, 5:39 PM
Solved .... it was the compositing buttons that confused me.

Because this involved parent - child tracks, I assumed (I know, never assume anything ...) that it was the Parent Composite Mode button where I had to set the Custom/Height Map, but it wasn't - this needs leaving as source alpha and the Track Compositing Mode is where the Custom/Height mode is set.

I thought I was going mad - several lower tracks with logos, video etc were all "floating" happily, whilst the one track I wanted to float wasn't.