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Anthony, If you have your "Set Graphical Editor" (View> Advanced Options) set to "Default" it will behave as you describe? DG

Anthony, XP; Vista; W7? DG

SOUNDS GOOD!!! DG

Anthony, If I have read your post correctly then I don't think that what you say is necessary. I have my desktop etc images set to open in NX2 but I can still set PTE's Ctrl + W to open an image in Pixbuilder or CSx or whatever. DG

This one is called "The Ozone Layer". DG Ozone Layer.zip

How about a cone? DG CONE.zip

Mick, That is the problem!! Our hobby and our software is 2 dimensional and we are trying to simulate 3 dimensionality with the tools that Igor has supplied. If we could give an image or an object "depth" then we would not need all of the trickery that has gone into some of these demonstrations / illusions. Imagine a PIPE which has first four sides along its length - like a square drainpipe. Then imagine 4, 8, 16 etc sides and keep going until the pipe is a round pipe. We could "tear" an image into 4 strips and put one on each face of the square pipe. We could do the same with the pipes with 8, 16 etc faces but to be able to wrap the image around a round pipe we would need an infinite number of impossibly thin strips to create the illusion of an image wrapped around a pipe. With a sphere it is even worse because from North Pole to South Pole the strip required is pointed at each end and has width at the equator. Even then it could not be wrapped around the sphere from North to South. DG

I "knew" that was coming! Within the context of this thread that's great. Before it started I expected the Eagle to be going around the wireframe. Any new "Wireframe" ideas? How about a PIPE? DG PIPE.zip

Whilst "Wireframes" are not AVs in the accepted sense, there has been a little interest lately. Can I suggest that anyone with a "wireframe" that they want to share post it in this thread? I'll kick it off with "Wheels Within Wheels". Three Spheres - a blue one inside a green one inside a red one - all moving in different directions. Three Looping Slides repeated. Use the left and right arrows to move forward and back - escape to abort. It will give us something to occupy us until August 1. DG Wheels Within Wheel.zip

Maureen, Notwithstanding what I wrote in the PM, I noticed this morning that the last slide - the zoom - is showing the left hand edge right at the end - minor point. DG

Not subtle enough I'm afraid . Nicely done though. DG

To be serious I, like many AV'ers (I suspect), would like to see 3D animations used in a less "in your face" way. The more traditional slide show makers aren't really interested in Cubes and Spheres and Wireframes (I don't think!). For introductions, endings and Menu slides - great! But in a real slide show with REAL images I have yet to see advanced 3D Animation being used with any subtlety. When I see something I'll let you know. IMHO and all that - other opinions are available. DG

Joy, Typically, how many tracks would you have? DG

Tom, It's called "thinking outside of the box". It's just the theory - not the end product. I'd like to see someone use this in a more conventional AV situation with images. No Lin, not Snow Globes and Cubes! DG

Lin: DG

Here Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, Kitty, here Puss, Puss, Puss (Mary Ford). How many repeats? It looks like more than one slide? DG P.S. Went back and checked the time - one rotation.

I leave that to you - I'm all "wireframed" out!! DG

Correct Lin, As I said, I chose to put in an image for convenience. Can we now expect to see little upside-down pots containing an illusion of a snow scene rotating in a wireframe creation? DG

Objects Enclosed Within Wireframes Pictures To Exe allows us to create the illusion of three dimensionality in animated objects within a two dimensional space. There have been many fine examples over the last couple of years which have been posted here. I added a little contribution recently by showing how I rotated text around a spherical object by splitting the text into front and back halves and placing them in front of and behind the spherical object. The next obvious step is to enclose an object within another object whilst rotating both. The following is a description of the method. A Template is added to this post to illustrate my method. The Template can be run as a slide show or examined slide by slide while reading this explanation. First, as always, prepare your ingredients. In a suitable editing package make a semi-circle by drawing a 600x600 pixels circle in an 800x800 pixel transparent layer and erase the right hand side of the circle. Save as a PNG file. In PTE, add a Frame to a blank slide (Frame 1). Add another frame to Frame 1 and rename it "Control". Add a frame to the Control frame and rename it "Front". Add the previously prepared Semi-Circle (Red_Circle) to the Front Frame and Rotate its Y Axis through (+) 20 degrees. My Template is built at 1280x800. If your project size is different, click on SIZE in the "Size Position…." box of the "Red_Circle" to ensure that you have an "Actual Pixels" element. Using the "Clone" procedure you can now right click on the "Red_Circle" element, click on Copy and then use Ctrl + V (Paste) eight times as shown in the Template. (I have added the rotation angles to the names of elements of the Front Hemi-Sphere for reference). Note that there is no zero degree element. In Slide 1 of the Template drag the arrow between the Key-frames to see the effect. To complete the Spherical object I did the following: Click on the "Front" frame and COPY. Click on the "Control" frame and paste. Rename the lower "Front" frame "Back" and rotate through 180 degrees. See Slide 2 of the attached Template. I was now able to create the illusion of enclosing an object inside the Wireframe Sphere. My object was an image (600x400 pixels) which I reduced to 71%. Click on the "Control" frame and add the object/image. Right click on the image and click on "Order" and send BACK ONCE. The order of the objects from Front to back is now the front half of the Hemi-Sphere; the image; the back half of the Hemi-Sphere. Now to create the illusion of rotation of the Sphere through 360 degrees: I found that I could rotate the Control Frame from 40 degrees through to -60 degrees and maintain the front to back relationship. See Slide 3 in the Template. By setting up the first and last Key-frames of the Control Frame at 40 and -60 degrees respectively the illusion begins. (Click on the first and last Key-frames for the Control Frame in succession to see that they are identical). By "Looping" or repeating the slide multiples of the time frames for the illusion are obtained. Note that to maintain the image stationary values of -40 and +60 need to be added to its first and last Key-frames over the same time interval. Click on the "Slice of Toast" Icon for Slide 3 to produce a Looping Slide 3. The enclosed object can now be animated and this is shown in Slide 5. Here I have rotated the image through 360 degrees during the 100 degree rotation of the Control Frame. Other combinations are possible by changing the Slide Duration and Angle of Rotation of the Control Frame e.g. using a 10 degree interval between "Red_Circles" would allow for a 90 degree rotation during the illusion. Clicking on the "Slice of Toast" icon for Slide 5 produces a Looping Slide 5 to demonstrate the effect. Objects in Wireframes.zip DG

7.0.5? 7.0.6? DG

If your music file is a SINGLE MP3 then I would add an offset equal to the Title Slide Duration to it's track in the MUSIC OPTIONs. You could also add the same offset to multiple tracks. You could then add a different piece of music to cater for the Title slide at the beginning. DG

Rob, The other option would be to output from PTE as an MPEG4. Virtually the same quality. However, the file size would probably prohibit an online transfer. DG

If the monitor is 1366x768 (16:9) then the graphics adaptor will still support 1920x1080. You won't be able to set it to 1920x1080 until a 1920x1080 device such as the projector is connected. Assuming that your Control Panel looks the same as my desktop's W7 version: Control Panel - Appearance and Personalization - Display. Identify which "monitor" is the Projector. Use that as the Main Monitor - turn the laptop's monitor off - it will be of no use to you. Set the output to 1920x1080. DG

Set the laptop res to 1920x1080 when the projector is connected. Control panel / Display. DG P.S. If the laptop's normal display is less than 1920x1080 or is, maybe, 1920x1200 (different AR to projector) then, in display, set the projector as the main display.

I understand - it is just the project file. It is not like a Photoshop Temp File!!! DG