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iClone2 Motion Editor

Building Materials | SFX

Developer Tools & Plug-ins

Materials

Texture Editing

	Custom texture creation by loading image files, or launching image editing software for texture editing

	Texture channels include diffuse, opacity (mask and alpha transparency), bump, glow, and reflection

	Real-time display of multiple texture effects

	Access precise UV Reference maps to view texture painting guides

	General UV mapping methods include Plane, Box, Spherical, Cylindrical, and Capped Cylindrical

	Tile, rotate, and offset textures for increased accuracy and flexibility of texture alignment

	Normal map support to allow low polygon objects appear with high surface detail

	Customize Particle Effects textures with diffuse and opacity maps.

	UV texture animation support for 3D Studio Max plug-in

	All the textures can be saved for further use, especially for the garment textures.

	Load and Save (Export) texture files for characters, props and accessories.

G2 Clone Cloth - Custom clothing design using images

	Texture template to start any clothing project

	Create custom clothing using any image or photo editor

	Diffuse textures add graphic design to clothing

	Opacity textures cut Clone Cloth into custom character clothes

	Save clothing in character library for storage and future use.

	Export Texture images for sharing or selling as Texture Packs

	Import texture images for instant clothing construction from packs

3D Blocks and Custom Texture Library

	Combine library textures with included 3D blocks to create custom props, accessories, or scenery.

	Instant access to 110 MB of creative textures library

	Diffuse maps include textures for wall, ground, roof, brick, wood, metal, stone, etc.

	Build instant 3D surface detail from Bump map libraries

	Create shiny effects with reflective patterns

	Generate semi-transparent effects or cut-out shapes with opacity maps

Editing 3D Surfaces and Billboards

	Planes with no thickness can be used to simulate 2D marks, patterns and tracks, or stamp effects

	Surface with various curves which can be used to represent curtain, table cloth, leaves and papers

	Mask-out custom shapes simply with opacity maps

	Billboards can always face audience when camera moves, used for creating sign board, talking bubble, produce grass, or distant tree

SFX

Real-time SFX creation and control of Particle System and Fog

	Visual effects engine with preset library of effects and custom tools

	Create and store custom effects using the simplified user interface for powerful particle modification

	Import diffuse and opacity maps for unique texture effects on particles

	Simulate weather in any scene with real-time instant weather presets

Particle SFX positioning and interactivity

	Assign particle emitters to scene objects

	Animated scene objects with attached particle emitters trail effects

	Timeline control of particle emission start and stop frames

	Group and store particles attached to props and accessories. Affect particle behavior when attached to props animation

Characters and Particle SFX

	Assign particle emitters to any character bone segment.

	Animate characters with SFX particle emitter trail effects

	Use SFX modification panel to choreograph particle behavior to characters

	Character accessories support SFX for dynamic scene elements (smoking cigar, magical sword)

SFX rendering

	Real-time instant preview playback of SFX scene elements

	Alpha, Addition or Subtraction SFX scene blending modes

	Output SFX for use in iClone scenes or as Post effects generator exported as alpha-channeled video

	Add multiple SFX elements to the scene with enhanced real-time performance

iClone 2 Feature Illustration

Particle parameters

Texture:
The animation here illustrates two kinds of particles from emitters. The left one maps merely the diffuse texture to the particles while the right one maps both diffuse and opacity textures to the particles.

Start/End color:
In this illustration, there are five leaves with start color set to be white and the end color set to be white, yellow, green, red, and black.
White keeps the original color of the texture while the others blend themselves with the texture..

Start/End opacity:
The maple leaf in this illustration turn to be transparent gradually since the start/end opacity is set to be 255/0.

Blend mode:
Three modes construct this group. They are Alpha, Addition, and Subtraction.

Alpha:

Show the original texture of the particle. No blending.

Addition:
Each particle will be blended with the background objects by RGB value.

Subtraction:
Each particle will be subtracted with the background objects by RGB value.

Size: The Start/End sizes in these two illustrations are (10 x 10 to 10 x 10) and (3 x 3 to 30 x 30).

(10 x 10 to 10 x 10)

(3 x 3 to 30 x 30)

Rotate:
These two illustrations show how the values affect the direction and the speed of the rotation. The larger the number is, the faster particle rotates. The sign in front of the number decides the direction. "+" means CW while "-" means CCW.

Rotate values for emitter1 and emitter2 = (+10, +70)

Rotate values for emitter1 and emitter2 = (-10, -70)

Rotate values for emitter1 only = (-70 to +70). You will see that each particle rotates individually.

Life (Frame):
In the first animation, the life time for each particle is set to be as long as the project. In the second one, however, is set to be varied between the range from 10 to 150 frames randomly. Therefore, some of the particles live longer and the others are eliminated soon.

(Life frame range= 10 to 150 frames)

(Life frame range = 150 to 150 frames)

Force:
There are two force fields affect the movement of the particles. It is global, so even the direction of the emitters altered, the force sustains.

(Gravity Z = 0, Wind Z = 0)

(Gravity Z = -33, Wind Z = 0)

(Gravity Z = 0, Wind Z = -500)

Emitter parameter illustrations

Start/End Frame:
Motion: Right hand animation applied. (Hand animation template: count2)
Emitters: (fire1, fire2, fire3, fire4) link to four fingers of the character.
Start Frame for each emitter linked to finger: (50, 100, 157, 220).
End Frame for each emitter linked to finger: (300, 350, 407, 470).

Quota and Emit Rate:
In this animation, the quota for the emitter is 10 but the emit rate is 100. Therefore, when the number of the living particle is 10, the emitter is forced to pause.

Quota = 10, Emit Rate = 100 particles/sec

Emitter Volume:
In this animation, the pink box's dimension varies along with the XYZ parameters to simulate the range containing the emitters.

Volume (X, Y, Z)= (100, 100, 100) to (100, 100, 0) to (100, 0, 100) to (0, 100, 100)

Direction:
In these illustrations, you will see how the parameters affect the directions of the emitters to send off the particles. The direction is decided by the Longitude-Latitude system.

(Longitude = 0, Latitude = 0)	(Longitude = 0, Latitude = 90)	(Longitude = 0, Latitude = -45)

(Longitude = 90, Latitude = 0)	(Longitude = -135, Latitude = 0)

Spread and Diagonal:
In this animation, please notice that the blue line indicates the angle of the Diagonal. (0 to 90)
The red and blue lines indicate the value of Spread, when Diagonal equals to 0.

Velocity:
The first illustration contains an emitter sending off particles in the velocity of 250. The second one, 500.

(Velocity = 250)

(Velocity = 500)

Direction Randomness:

These two animations illustrate how the randomness values decide the distortion of the paths for particles to move along.

(Direction Randomness = 0)

(Direction Randomness = 60)