howdy,
errr… uhhhh… so i was thinking that blender had a really cool node based compositing application…
but am i right that it only works with the render buffer?!
ack… dang. that’s kinda limiting. any plans on taking pregenerated movie clips or bitmaps? couldn’t be hard to incorporate since blender takes those anyway…
jin
p.s. i’m hoping someone informs me i’m wrong… and with info on how to work with movie clips if you’d be so kind. thanks.
Um, pretty sure you’re wrong. Um … turn on both the ‘do composite’ and ‘do sequence’ buttons, set start and end frames and push the anim button?
can’t get it working…
if it’s gonna load footage clip at all, it would have to be through the ‘render layer’ input but that doesn’t seem to work even with docomp and doseq… and in the add>inputs … there is no footage… i can load an image it seems but no footage…
any thoughts?
jin
sorry, but have you even tried reading the manual for yourself?
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Compositing_Nodes_Input
Don’t panic! You want an Image node, not Render Layer.
And how did you arrive at that totally erroneous conclusion?
RTFM ?
thanks.
i actually searched google for ‘blender 3d compositing’ and pretty much came away with bupkus…
and i didn’t know there was a fing manual online that was being kept up to date.
but now that i know, i shall indeed rtfm.
thanks an fing bunch!
jin
In the app itself: Right at the top. User Pref’s window. Menu item “Help.” Choose Manual.
Whatta surprise.
You’re effing welcome.
i suppose you have python installed?
jin
You might have tried the Help menu / Manual 
Strange place for documentation I know :spin:
Mike
see above
jin
What does that have to do with the documentation or compositing ?
Anyway … not absolutely necessary, blender includes it’s own python, which will run most (all ??) of the included scripts and probably any scripting you want to do.
If you run into an error running a python script indicating a library is missing, that will probably mean you need to install python 
Mike
you guys are telling me to go to help > manual.
that results in a python error.
blender is installed.
python is not.
so i could not and could not ever access any help from that menu.
and since smileys are so popular around here, howabout this… :eek:
jin
What is the python error you get ?
I don’t know if an “installed” python is neccessary for the help menu links to work. I do have python installed though.
Install python, and you’ll know if that’s causing the problem with the help menu.
What o.s. are you using ?
Mike
i’m on winxp.
error: python script error. check console … in the console it says: no module named webbrowser…
probably a python issue.
jin
hi! just bookmark http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual in your browser and you’ll be fine. There’s also a /Tutorials to help u out as well.
If you used the blender245.exe installer it should have created a file called python25.zip in the blender install directory.
If you downloaded the blender245.zip file instead, I would assume that file should be there as well. Inside the zip file is webbrowser.py, which blender apparently finds “automagically” (does on my system), without having to unzip/decompress that file.
If you do have that python25.zip file, then I’m not sure why blender is not finding it unless it’s because you don’t have python installed.
Mike
Huh.
The code:
import webbrowser
print webbrowser.file
Prints out:
C:\Program Files\Blender Foundation\Blender Custom\python25.zip\webbrowser.py
So those links should definatly work without supplimental python installed. Note this is running on my current SVN download, which is what the Blender Custom dir is about.
… Regular 245 does it too. Also, I DO have python 2-5 installed and it’s pulling the package from blender’s set anyway. (Which could probably be guessed if you knew that the longest part of this test was figuring out that my text window didn’t have any file in it at all …)
hey i’m the newb… you tell me.
installed on xp (not just unzipped) and it don’t work. nothing corrupt, everything works fine, use maya everyday to work.
are you trying it on xp?
other than that, i can invite you over to my place of work and show you the error message if you don’t believe me.
and apparently, it is so mystifying that it seems it is on the verge of unbelievability for some reason… ?