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Knoll Spark Pack 3.0 Manual custom lens flares and lighting f/x Knoll Spark Pack 3.0 manual Easily create lens flares and lighting effects for AutoDeskʼs Advanced Systems. [ from: Digital Anarchy ] f/x tools for revolutionaries knoll spark pack 3.0 : table of contents Introduction 5 System Requirements 5 Support 5 Registration 5 Installation 6 SGI/IRIX 6 Linux 6 Purchased Installation 7 Get a License for hostid 7 Find Your hostid 7 Demo Installation 7 Knoll Lens Flare Pro spark 8 Four Input Clips 8 Lens Flare Pro Interface 9 Main Page 9 The Lens Editor 9 Edit Page 9 Animate1, Animate2 10 Important Notes 10 Main Page Interface 11 Result button 11 Setup button 11 Process button 11 Preview button 11 Bg + Flare button 11 Anim button 12 Reset All Keyframes 12 User Position 12 Auto-Track 12 Multi-Track 13 Show Center 13 2 © 2006, digital anarchy : f/x tools for revolutionaries | custom lens flares and lighing effects. knoll spark pack 3.0 : table of contents Brightness 13 Scale 14 Angle 14 Global Color swatch 14 Tint button 14 Obscure button 15 Source Size 15 Browse button 15 Lens Editing Parameters 17 Edit button 17 Preview area 17 Scale, Position, Color 18 Elements List 18 Quality button 19 Redraw At End button 19 Lens Primitives 20 GlowBall 20 SpikeBall 20 StarFilter 20 Polygon Spread 21 Circle Spread 21 Elliptical Caustic 21 Star Caustic 21 Faded Ring 21 Stripe 21 RandomFan 21 PolySpikeBall 22 PhotonSpikeBall 22 Aperture Refl ection 22 Chroma Hoop 22 Single Polygon 22 Disc 22 3 © 2006, digital anarchy : f/x tools for revolutionaries | custom lens flares and lighing effects. knoll spark pack 3.0 : table of contents Ellipse 23 Sparkle 23 Chroma Fan 23 Element Parameters 24 Position 24 Anamorphic checkbox 24 Load/Save area 25 Load button 25 Save button 25 Knoll UnMult spark 26 Front button 26 Front option 26 Matte option 26 Both option 26 Knoll Min/Max spark 27 Min Button 27 Median option 27 Max option 27 Square button 27 Knoll Screen spark 28 Get it Free! 28 4 © 2006, digital anarchy : f/x tools for revolutionaries | custom lens flares and lighing effects. knoll spark pack 3.0 : introduction & installation Introduction Thank you for trying out Digital Anarchyʼs Knoll Spark Pack. You will fi nd this set of tools to be remarkably powerful, easy to use, and a great extension of the capability of your AutoDesk Advanced System. Knoll Spark Pack includes the following sparks: Knoll Lens Flare Pro, Knoll UnMult, and Knoll Min/Max. Knoll Screen is available separately as a free download from the Digital Anarchy website, www.digitalanarchy.com. System Requirements Knoll Spark Pack is compatible with any version or higher of the products listed below: AutoDesk™ eff ect® 5.0, fl int® 5.0, fl ame® 5.0, inferno® 2.0, smoke® 2.0, and fi re® 2.0. Knoll 3.0 is compatible with 64-bit IRIX systems, and now supports 32- and 64- bit Linux systems. Support We hope that you fi nd Koll Spark Pack gives you all the control you could want, while still being simple enough that you can set everything up in a few minutes. Itʼs our desire to make sure youʼre satisfi ed with your purchase. If you have any questions, comments, or whatever, weʼd love to hear them. Send an email to [email protected]. Registration Registration occurs when you purchase the sparks. We register you in our database using the contact information you supplied upon purchase, and the serial number weʼve given you. If you need a serial number, installer, or any other material support, just contact [email protected]. 5 © 2006, digital anarchy : f/x tools for revolutionaries | custom lens flares and lighing effects. knoll spark pack 3.0 : introduction & installation Installation To install Knoll Spark Pack, you will fi rst need to download the appropriate installer. This page gives you links to versions for 32-bit IRIX, 64-bit IRIX, 32-bit Linux, and 64-bit Linux. These installers are the same for the demo and purchase. NOTE: On the following page, the remaining instructions are diff erent for installing the purchased version and the demo version. SGI/IRIX If you download the installer from your SGI running your AutoDesk system, the installation process should happen automatically if you are logged in as root. If you download the installer from a Mac or PC, copy the tardist fi les over to your SGI. Make sure Binary is set in your FTP client, and do not change the name of the tardist fi les. If your SGI machine is connected to the Internet, you can FTP these links: For 32-bit: http://www.digitalanarchy.biz/knoll/Knoll_LFPro_3.01_32.tardist For 64-bit: http://www.digitalanarchy.biz/knoll/Knoll_LFPro_3.01_64.tardist On your SGI, log in as root and use the ʻtardistʼ command in a UNIX shell to run the installer. Then type: tardist /<path to the Knoll tardist fi le>/ The directory “user/AutoDesk/sparks/DigitalAnarchy” will be created and all necessary fi les will be copied into it. This directory can not be changed. Linux In Linux, become root and use the rpm shell command to run the proper installer for your system. Type this for 32-bit: rpm -Uvh http://www.digitalanarchy.biz/knoll/Knoll_LFPro_Spark-3.01-1.i386.rpm Type this for 64-bit: rpm -Uvh http://www.digitalanarchy.biz/knoll/Knoll_LFPro_Spark-3.01-1.x86_64.rpm Alternately, you can download the fi les from our website at these locations: For 32-bit: http://www.digitalanarchy.biz/knoll/Knoll_LFPro_Spark-3.01-1.i386.rpm For 64-bit: http://www.digitalanarchy.biz/knoll/Knoll_LFPro_Spark-3.01-1.x86_64.rpm 6 © 2006, digital anarchy : f/x tools for revolutionaries | custom lens flares and lighing effects. knoll spark pack 3.0 : introduction & installation Purchased Installation Once the fi le fi nishes installing Knoll Spark Pack (see previous page for the initial steps), a Notifi er window comes up asking if you would like to install a license. If you are a registered owner, or are trying out a time expiring demo without the red X, then select the ʻYesʼ button. The Install License window appears asking for the specifi c license for your SGIʼs hostid number. Get a License for hostid To get a license, please contact Digital Anarchy at [email protected] or call (415) 586-8434. We will ask for the eight digit hostid number shown in the Install License window. We will authorize a permanent license or time expiring demo license which must be entered into the Install License window. Write down your hostid number and Knoll Spark Pack license number and keep it in a safe place for future reference. If you are installing from Software Manager, after the license is entered, the Manager will ask if you want to save the distribution, and if you have any other software to install. If you are done installing software, then hit ʻNoʼ twice. You can then launch your AutoDesk system and access the Knoll Spark Pack. Find Your hostid If you need to fi nd your hostid number in Unix, in a Unix shell type ʻsysinfo -sʼ. You could also run the Install License utility again. The Install License utility can be found at /usr/AutoDesk/sparks/DigitalAnarchy/INSTALL_LICENSE. Your hostid in Linux can be found by typing ʻ/sbin/ifconfi g/ʼ. Demo Installation Once the fi le fi nishes installing Knoll Spark Pack (see previous page for the initial steps), a Notifi er window asks if you would like to install a license. If you are trying out a demo version, simply select the ʻNoʼ button. The three sparks will function in demo mode, rendering a red X over the image. After you decide to purchase a fully functional license, simply run the Install License utility again. This can be found at /usr/AutoDesk/sparks/ DigitalAnarchy/INSTALL_LICENSE. 7 © 2006, digital anarchy : f/x tools for revolutionaries | custom lens flares and lighing effects. knoll spark pack 3.0 : lens flare pro spark Knoll Lens Flare Pro spark Knoll Lens Flare Pro is much more than a lens fl are. In fact, John Knoll originally wrote it specifi cally to create the Photon Torpedos in Star Trek First Contact. This spark is a complete lighting eff ects kit from which you can create and save custom lighting eff ects ranging from lens fl ares to lasers. When Lens Flare Pro is fi rst applied, a default Basic Lens Flare is rendered. From there, you can generate hundreds of diff erent lighting styles. Four Input Clips Lens Flare Pro is designed to work with four input clips. When the spark is selected, four blue text fi elds become visible to the right of the Delete button, explaining what each input is for. The fi rst input is the Background (Bg). This is the layer that the lighting eff ect will be applied to. The second input is the Tint control layer. This input is used to tint the color of the light to the RGB values found in this clip. The third input is the Obscure layer. This input is used to automatically control whether a lighting eff ect is on or off , and is usually comprised of a black-and- white mask composition. The fourth input is the tracker layer. This layer is usually comprised of individually rendered out ʻlightsourcesʼ from your footage that the spark can use to automatically track and position the lens fl ares. If you do not need to use any or all of these additional inputs, simply select the Background input multiple times.
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