Links - Rain Styles - Components - Tutorial

[Lin Evans]

Hi Guys,

I've finally completed the series of Rain Styles and associated components - I will try to finish the Snow Styles later today...

Below are links to files as described:

AVI Rain Tutorial - Please use because it explains much of what follows:

http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/raintutorial.zip (145 meg zipped AVI tutorial and explanation)

A set of three Rain Styles which are multi-aspect ratio. They cover 16:9, 3:2, 4:3 and 5:4 aspect ratio's each. Included is a text file in .rtf format which explains all. The three styles cover rain coming from the left, the right and straight down for each aspect ratio above: Also included is a single 16:9 example style showing how lightning and raindrop PNG file can be added. Also a "black" jpg which can be used to fade-out the entire show if desired or needed....

http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/rainstylesarchive.zip (23 meg zipped archive)

Zipped rain sounds in mp3 format - contains two mp3 files which have rain, wind, thunder, etc.

http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/rainsounds.zip (4.8 meg)

Zipped archive of six PNG "rain on window" files in 16:9 aspect ratio and six jpg examples. These can easily be used with any aspect ratio image by simply sizing the rectangle.

http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/raindropsPNGarchive.zip (less than one meg)

A set of seven lightning PNG files which can be used with your rain animations as explained in the tutorial and seen in the rain example style.

http://www.lin-evans.org/styles/lightning.zip (1.8 meg)

Let me know if there are any questions...

Best regards,

Lin

[PhilPhoto]

Thanks so much Lin - very much appreciated. I continue to admire your skill and willingness to share.

Best wishes.

Phil

[cead]

Lin.

Thank you very much for the tutorial (explanation) and all associated objects.

Sincerely,

Frans

[Lin Evans]

Thanks Phil, Frans - it's coming along and I'm getting the 'snow' styles designed now.... Hopefully I'll finish them up tomorrow...

Best regards,

Lin

[michaelr108]

Hi Lin

Thanks very much Lin ,PTE never stops amazing me and the members like your self who share their talents with us

Thankyou.

Michael

[Lin Evans]

Thanks Michael - hopefully I finish the snow styles today and a quick tutorial now that I have a working tutorial software..

Best regards,

Lin

[Tauratinzwe]

I'm struggling to learn PTE. With Lin's tutorials, things are beginning to make some sense. I found that his rain styles made it difficult to view the screen at the drive-in, so I've tried to get the wipers on my car to work. As you can see, I'm having problems with the masking. Not quite as easy as in Photoshop. Anyway, thanks to Lin, Davegee and The Dom for the instructive posts and styles/templates they've made available to encourage us beginners. 

 

[Lin Evans]

Looks great Leon - keep at it! Masking will make more sense as you play with it more frequently. You'll also discover innovative ways to make masks using Photoshop. One way I like to do it is to copy the image I want to create a mask for then use the copy in Photoshop to paint in black and white and sometime even add some areas of transparency so you have an exact and position independent PNG format mask to use in PTE.

Best regards,

Lin

[tom95521]

Hi Lin,

Experimenting with Animation modifiers. The rain drops are ping pong panned in X direction and shift panned in Y direction to simulate rain. Not as good as your version but a good learning experience.

Thanks,
Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APFZA4NMTKc

Rain.ptestyle

[Lin Evans]

Hi Tom,

That's a novel way to approach it!  It's always fun looking for new ways to create effects. You'll notice that in my little squirrel video I used your "fly away wings" transition on one of my images. The influx of people formerly using Proshow has injected new spirit into creating styles and transitions. I hope theDom comes back and participates in the forum again after the MacIntosh version gets launched. He has some amazing creativity. 

Best regards,

Lin

[tom95521]

Hi Lin,

I woke up this morning and decided to simulate rain. I didn't add sound but it does have 66 individual rain drops that can be customized. PTE can easily handle the animation (at least on my Nvidia 1660 Super), only 10% utilization and about 200 MB memory.

The French diaporamas are amazing, and I also hope Dom returns to the forum. I still remember JPD (R.I.P.) and his spectacular animations using older versions of PTE.

Thanks,
Tom