Wax 2.0a released.

satish wrote on 3/26/2004, 12:09 AM

Wax 2.0a for Vegas has been released and is available at http://www.debugmode.com/wax/ . Wax can work as a standalone app as well as a plugin for Vegas to create advanced 3D and 2D effects including 3D text, rotoscoping, use 3D models, particles etc.

Wax is the next generation of the PluginPac plugins. You can still use PluginPac and Wax inside Vegas but with this Wax release PluginPac Plugins are phased out (except the FrameServer).

Features.
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1) Use graphics acceleration available with your video card for preview as well as render

2) 2D and 3D Plugins and transitions for creating effects. Full featured 3D compositing with 3d objects, lighting, shadows, texture generators, etc. Plugins include the following...

---- RotoMate - rotoscope/paint over video with fully keyframmable shapes and masks
---- Shatter - create explosive effects
---- ModelLoader - load 3d models from .3DS, .MD2 and .MS3d files
---- Particle Generator - generate various natural particle effects like fire, smoke, rain etc
---- Text 3D - create extruded/beveled 3D text, and much more...

3) Has native support for Plugin Adapter technology - can load and use VirtualDub filters, DirectX plugins and Windows ® Movie Maker presets inside Wax (inside Vegas when you use Wax as a plugin with Vegas)

4) Compatible with Vegas 3, 4, and the upcoming 5.

Wax comes with sample projects (created using Vegas 4) and a UserGuide. Please view them before starting to use.

Thanks
Satish

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Comments

mark2929 wrote on 3/26/2004, 12:34 PM

Not sure what that means Tom sounds like a British rail sandwich to me
This is what I typed

@a href="http://www.vegasusers.com/vidshare/textdisp?mark2929-satish_
title_test">mark2929 Plugin Test@/a>

I replaced the < With a @ so it wouldent turn into a hyperlink

rextilleon wrote on 3/26/2004, 12:38 PM

I can see my avi file in the preview screen but when I apply modeler nothing happens--can't see the resultf of the fx---???

satish wrote on 3/26/2004, 12:42 PM

John, i sent a mail to your yahoo account (the one you have specified in the debugmode forums profile), please reply..Thanks

mark2929 wrote on 3/26/2004, 1:12 PM

Just Had me Dinner and come back Links now working thanks Tom

PeterWright wrote on 3/26/2004, 7:23 PM

Wow, I just tried out the sample vegs, Satish - what an awesome tool!

I'm extremely grateful ........ here comes another learning curve!

Peter

prairiedogpics wrote on 3/26/2004, 7:40 PM

Satish,

First, thanks for all the work!

I can't seem to rotate/postion/scale 3d text, though? What order do you add these?
I'm using Wax as a Video FX in Vegas 4. I add the Wax FX to my clip, Wax opens, I add Postion3D, then the Text 3D (your manual says I have to add Position 3d before the item it's affecting). The "HOST" video clip is under that. But any changes made in Position 3D don't affect the text.

Maybe Mark, above, who posted the clip above can fill me in.

I just want spinning 3d text on top of my video clip (I DON'T WANT the clip to spin, just want it as a background element.)
I'm sure it's a simple answer!!!!

Dan

J_Mac wrote on 3/26/2004, 9:39 PM

Thank you. John

johnmeyer wrote on 3/26/2004, 10:39 PM

Thanks, Satish, for you help. Just so other people know, you need to have the "split screen view" turned off. This is the icon just above the preview window that enables/disables whether you can see the effect. If it is "pushed in" when you load the Wax plug-in, it won't load. Pop it back out and the plug in loads.

mark2929 wrote on 3/27/2004, 2:18 AM

Daniel Sorry time difference (Just got up) Yawn Umm Right its still all new to me. But here goes.. You added wax to your clip.. The host Video clip appears.. Add 3D Text to the media pool In WAX.. underneath The host Clip.. Press the twirly For 3D Text and you Have all them lovely Controls at your disposal. You have about 3 or 4 different categories. The first twirly Category you use to type your Text, Font, Size, ect when Finished turn the twirly (Dont want to Much Clutter) Then move onto the other categories.

I just scroll down change each setting so as to get a keyframe up Then see what each One does.

Great Fun :)

mark30 wrote on 3/27/2004, 2:29 AM

WOW.....Speechless here...
Satish with this you help us all getting a better position in in the NLE world.. thanks thanks thanks...

sdmoore wrote on 3/27/2004, 5:42 AM

WOOHOO! It's released! Can't wait to try it out ... downloading it now. Many thanks Satish.

Cheers,

Scott

satish wrote on 3/27/2004, 9:36 AM

Put the Position3d just below the 3dtext plugin. "Before" = "Below" in the way the tracks and plugins are composited, from bottom to top.

DDogg wrote on 3/27/2004, 10:39 AM

OK, so the guy is good, modest to a fault, will not take a dime, and has been working on this nearly a year if I remember correctly. So, how to say thanks? I have a proposition for you advanced users and I hope it will not be seen as impertinent to suggest it but I know he would never do, so here goes -

Satish made a comment to me that stuck in my brain when I suggested he do some really flashy veg based demos as well as a streaming video to showcase the power of WAX2 and potentially enhance his career.

He said something like, "Hey, I'm just a programmer, I'm not artistic like the people that will actually be using WAX2. That stuff is very, very hard for me to do, and I would rather use the time to better the code."

I think it would be a great thank you if some of you highly experienced users could work toward the goal of creating some killer demos files and maybe even a video demo that could be streamed from his site so as to just knock the socks off of the viewer.

Again, as I just lurk here most of the time, I hope nobody is offended by me making such a suggestion. I just think this would be a very cool way to say "thank you". BTW, Satish, I hope I have not embarrassed you! :-)

mark2929 wrote on 3/27/2004, 10:51 AM

Sounds like a really good idea to me !

cyanide149 wrote on 3/27/2004, 11:34 AM

Or, we could just send him money....

DDogg wrote on 3/27/2004, 11:53 AM

That would be for him to say, however I think HQ demos would be worth more to him.

The concept of paying back someone's specialized skill set with something from your own specialized skill set seems the perfect respectful barter, and has much more worth than money.

Since I'm not much of an artistic person, I try to pay him back with hours of - frankly, mind numbing testing :) Maybe some of the heavy hitter artistic types can do 'their thing' for him in their own way.

It just seems like a right thing.

prairiedogpics wrote on 3/27/2004, 1:47 PM

Okay, I just can't get this to work, Satish (moving/spinning text).
1. Apply Wax Fx to clip.
2. Wax plugin opens. Host media (video clip) is on track 1(inside Wax).
3. If I put the Text 3D on track 2 (below HOST), I cannot see the text I enter.
4. So I put the Text 3D in track 1 and HOST on track 2. Now I can see the video clip and the text on top of it. I can keyframe the the bevel, extrude, and matierials for the text. So far, so good. So I move HOST to track 3 (because I need room for Position 3D on track 2, right below Text 3D)
5. So I put Position 3D below Text 3D, on track 2, and changing Position 3D's parameters has no effect on anything. Not on Text 3D or the video clip.

Please help.

Dan

Later:

Okay, now I see if make Text 3D a SUBSET of HOST (not on Track 2, but a subset as the hierarchy tree shows), I then have all the postion, rotate, scale, properties and I can keyframe all those. So, can't the host media be a video track (because i can't see it underneath in this fashion). Does the host media have be transparent media?
Still confused. I want moving, spinning, rotating text with a video track in the background. Sorry to nag, just excited about getting this to work!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 3/27/2004, 1:59 PM

Try inserting an Empty Event on the track above your video on the Vegas timeline. Then add Wax to that empty event and in Wax add the Text 3D to HostMedia1 (which is now the empty event) and Rotate to your heart's content using the Rotate 3D controls that are added with the Text 3D. This gives to the added option of moving the text on the Vegas timeline independent of the video just as you would a Generated Media title.

~jr

prairiedogpics wrote on 3/27/2004, 2:04 PM

Got it, JohnnyRoy! I just tried the same thing you instucted right before I read your post.
Success!! Thanks, Satish!!

Dan

Erk wrote on 3/27/2004, 5:16 PM

I think Ddog's idea is a good one. If I can think of a worthy demo, I'd be happy to contribute.

Greg

DDogg wrote on 3/27/2004, 5:29 PM

Greg, thanks for bringing this part of the thread chain back on topic. :)

"If I can think of a worthy demo..."

I think any demo is a worthy demo. The more the better. Simple ones, complex ones, hey they are all good as they may show somebody exactly what they are looking for. Thanks again for the reply.

vectorskink wrote on 3/28/2004, 2:50 PM

God bless you Satish!

jboy wrote on 3/31/2004, 10:59 AM

How's this new ap going for you guys, who have it up and running properly ? I'm downloading .NET as I peck, but am wondering if I should wait until Satish squeezes any bugs out of it ? I'm running an AMD XP /W2K/ box,and noticed a few of the guys running similiar rigs seemed to be having problems...

satish wrote on 3/31/2004, 2:45 PM

I would recommend waiting for another couple of days and use the upcoming 2.0b version which has fixes for all the known issues. But some users have it running fine on win2k so it's worth giving a try...