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Goram, Actually, VB gave you a hint, and I'll expand on this a little bit.
The green screen technique is used all the time in movies and can easily be used with anim8or.

Set your background to green and make a shadow receiving (but not casting) green plane.
Now you can render your video and the shadow should be there.
You can now easily edit the video to make the green color transparent in your video editing software.
All the major NLE programs will allow this technique, including many of the free ones.

Remember, there aren't many things you can use 3d rendering programs for other than, games, still images, and video, so, chances are someone here has dealt with the same thing. Perhaps one of us has even used your exact NLE and can help you further.

Sage

Karate5662,
Actually, you can't make a script that adds them because these materials use the ART attributes. Currently, they are not supported in ASL from what I understand.

I tried that, and even posted my results but later realized that the attributes where not there.
Sage

Since Kubajzz had started a little tool box of his own, I thought it would be cool to begin a small collection of my own as well. Having them on this board all in one place is pretty neat. Perhaps larger collections could get stikied up so that they can be found every time.

This is my first contribution (well, my first one to be added to this new board at least)

Over at http://www.anim8or.com/smf/index.php?topic=1361.0 VBSmiles posted some really great metalic materials to use with ART for really great metallic effects.

I took the liberty of using the export_materials tool to convert that set into a materials script. The export_materials tool only attaches them to an object at the moment, so, I edited the script to appear in the "file" tab of the material editor so that you can use them throughout your project.

Enjoy.
Sage

EDIT: unfortunately, this one did not export the attributes that made these items so awesome, I'll work on editing them to get those in. Perhaps Bob_its will edit (or allow me to mess with) the export script to try to figure out how to include those items.

I have been working with the materials script to export materials to a .a8s file. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/w.watson3/main/files/export_materialv1.a8s

I notice that when I import my exported script, it imports them to the object tab (rather than the file tab) of the material editor.

I would prefer my palet to be global so that I can import it once and use it for any object.
So, when I export my materials in the "File" tab, I don't get any material, but, I do if it's attached to the object tab.
Her's what I get.
<code>
/* basic Material script for Anim8or 0.97d beta
*/
object $obj;
material $mat;
$obj = project.curObject;
$mat = $obj.NewMaterial ( "Gold");
$mat.LockAmbiantDiffuse = 0;
$mat.SetAmbiantColor ((0.957 , 0.831 , 0.498 ));
$mat.Ka = 0.300;
$mat.SetDiffuseColor ((0.957 , 0.831 , 0.498 ));
$mat.Kd = 1.000;
$mat.SetSpecularColor ((1 , 1 , 1 ));
$mat.Ks = 0.500;
$mat.SetEmissiveColor ((0 , 0 , 0 ));
$mat.Ke = 0.000;
$mat.roughness = 3.00;
$mat.brilliance = 10.000;
$mat.alpha = 1.00;
$mat = $obj.NewMaterial ( "Brass");
$mat.LockAmbiantDiffuse = 0;
$mat.SetAmbiantColor ((0.929 , 0.725 , 0.192 ));
$mat.Ka = 0.300;
$mat.SetDiffuseColor ((0.929 , 0.725 , 0.192 ));
$mat.Kd = 1.000;
$mat.SetSpecularColor ((1 , 1 , 1 ));
$mat.Ks = 0.500;
$mat.SetEmissiveColor ((0 , 0 , 0 ));
$mat.Ke = 0.000;
$mat.roughness = 3.00;
$mat.brilliance = 10.000;
$mat.alpha = 1.00;
$mat = $obj.NewMaterial ( "Copper");
$mat.LockAmbiantDiffuse = 0;
$mat.SetAmbiantColor ((0.875 , 0.353 , 0.129 ));
$mat.Ka = 0.300;
$mat.SetDiffuseColor ((0.875 , 0.353 , 0.129 ));
$mat.Kd = 0.700;
$mat.SetSpecularColor ((1 , 1 , 1 ));
$mat.Ks = 0.600;
$mat.SetEmissiveColor ((0 , 0 , 0 ));
$mat.Ke = 0.000;
$mat.roughness = 0.60;
$mat.brilliance = 1.800;
$mat.alpha = 1.00;
$mat = $obj.NewMaterial ( "Silver");
$mat.LockAmbiantDiffuse = 0;
$mat.SetAmbiantColor ((0.714 , 0.714 , 0.8 ));
$mat.Ka = 0.300;
$mat.SetDiffuseColor ((0.714 , 0.714 , 0.8 ));
$mat.Kd = 1.000;
$mat.SetSpecularColor ((1 , 1 , 1 ));
$mat.Ks = 0.500;
$mat.SetEmissiveColor ((0 , 0 , 0 ));
$mat.Ke = 0.000;
$mat.roughness = 3.00;
$mat.brilliance = 6.000;
$mat.alpha = 1.00;
$mat = $obj.NewMaterial ( "Steel");
$mat.LockAmbiantDiffuse = 0;
$mat.SetAmbiantColor ((0.878 , 0.878 , 0.878 ));
$mat.Ka = 0.300;
$mat.SetDiffuseColor ((0.878 , 0.878 , 0.878 ));
$mat.Kd = 0.700;
$mat.SetSpecularColor ((1 , 1 , 1 ));
$mat.Ks = 0.400;
$mat.SetEmissiveColor ((0 , 0 , 0 ));
$mat.Ke = 0.000;
$mat.roughness = 8.00;
$mat.brilliance = 2.000;
$mat.alpha = 1.00;
$mat = $obj.NewMaterial ( "Alien Green");
$mat.LockAmbiantDiffuse = 0;
$mat.SetAmbiantColor ((0.00392 , 0.408 , 0.00392 ));
$mat.Ka = 0.300;
$mat.SetDiffuseColor ((0.0118 , 0.851 , 0.0118 ));
$mat.Kd = 0.700;
$mat.SetSpecularColor ((1 , 1 , 1 ));
$mat.Ks = 0.400;
$mat.SetEmissiveColor ((0 , 0 , 0 ));
$mat.Ke = 0.000;
$mat.roughness = 3.00;
$mat.brilliance = 10.000;
$mat.alpha = 1.00;
</code>

Is there anything I can change in this to get it to send to the file tab in the script editor? I tried changing the first line "object $obj;" to read "file $obj;"
I am assuming that $obj is a variable and this line would be like saying $obj = object;
Thanks
Sage

I assume you were talking about in anim8or.
the answer to that is no.
What you need to do is render your cameras seperately, and then use some video editing software to do the picture in picture stuff (putting the two together.
I believe Ulead to be non freeware.
For some good freeware video editing software, check out www.debugmode.com/wax and http://jahshaka.org/ both are very good, and I use both.
Sage

Excellent tool!!!
I do use plugicon when I want to do use an image (which is most of the time) but, for those other times, I will be using your plugin.

PS... For cross browser compatability, you might try mootools, or prototype (I use both for development at work, and love them).

Sage


edit:: Tested in IE6, IE7, FireFox2, FireFox3... works fine in all except that in IE6, I the preview is a bit messed up. Other than that, it still gives the right code for ASL buttons.
Sage

Kubajzz
These are fantastic tools
Can I make a suggestion?
go to your first post and click "modify", then you can do a brief write up on each of these scripts and a link to them all, so that folks can get them all at one time without having to remember which post it was that had them.
Thanks again for the cool scripts
Sage