Animated gobo

[tianlong]

I have read the manual and tried to follow it but with no luck.

How do I use a black & white QT movie as an animated gobo?

Please, please, please....uh, please?

Thanks,

tianlong

[deke-kincaid]

Use the movie node in textures and map it to light color

mrPooh

[tianlong]

Thanks, but I tried that and Maya won't recognize Sorenson, Animation, or Uncompressed formats/codecs.

More help out there?

[alts]

why don't you kick out a sequence of images and use those. it's not as heavy as a movie file for maya to deal with.

[tianlong]

Thanks, but I tried that too. To set keyframes Maya wants sequential image files that end in NUMBERS
and not file extensions. I tried output with After Effects and Maya Fusion (LE) but can't figure out how
to output files like - alienWarthogDisembowlingMeekPasserby.tga.001

Any ideas? I mean, really. Why is it so difficult? Shouldn't Maya just be capable of using any old QT/AVI or
image sequence (image001.tga) as an image file?

I mean, really.

[slepa]

Most renamers can change file naming structure to file.ext.###. AfterEffects can do this as well. When you type your filename in for the Render Queue, using the following syntax:
file.tga.[#]

The Sequence911 renamer in the downloads section of this site will do this quite easily for you.

[pbuckley]

Save the image sequence in this format - name.####.ext, Maya will read this no problem and AE can save in this manner - I do this all the time.