All language subtitles for 07. Creating an Overall Plate Distortion

hi everyone

welcome back to our 6th class

in our course on creating high tech weaponry in nuke

in this class

we're gonna create um

some plate distortions that'll kind of

add to the effect of our futuristic weapon

so let's get started

so one of the things that I Learned

that really kind of helps push some of these effects

is creating things that

not only just affect what's happening here in the plate

but actually affect the entire plate

so if we begin by bringing in a directional blur node

and let's say we attach it to our stream

directly in view that we get two

note two little

uh dots here

that's a blur center and target

what you wanting to do is you're gonna wanna put those

right where your muzzle flashes are

this effect is basically linked to the muzzle flash

and it's basically the energy that is being produced

by the light and the heat from the muzzle flash

these are futuristic weapons

so it's safe to assume that these frames here

where the gun is powering up to

you know eject some energy it's gonna be very strong

it's gonna create a lot of distortion heat

light all those kind of things so we wanna emulate that

so if we go to our first

from where we see our first uh

muzzle our lighting effect for a muzzle flash

if we put our targets and blur centers there

and view our directional rapper

will see that if we toggle on and off

there's a slight

kind of bend or distortion to the plate

emanating from the blur center

so what we're gonna wanna do is

we're gonna wanna keep our blur type as zoom

our channels

we can leave it as all

but this for some uh

speed and such

we're just gonna keep the RGB

now our blur length

we're gonna wanna increase that

and that is going to animate

so for our first frame of our muzzle flash

where it's smaller

it's gonna be a certain length

and then the very next frame

it's gonna be a longer length

so the first one here will kinda

play with that and see what works

this is an effect that I definitely love to push

so let's see

so I was actually animating the blur angle

is the blur length we wanna animate

so if we say 50

and toggle

that's quite a bit

so maybe we'll save that value for the second frame

maybe for the first frame will go something like

maybe something like that

so we'll set a key frame there

and go back to zero for where we don't see it

so first frame

we see that

second frame we're gonna increase that to say

maybe even something like that

very extreme

but these kind of things plate really well

so we can always adjust it as we go

that's the beautiful thing about this

is that every layer here

as we go through the shot

we can always go back and layer

if we want our distortion to be bigger or smaller

we can go back and adjust that

and all those kind of things

so we'll leave our plate distortion at this level

right here and then the next frame we will turn

not that not completely off but down

and then our next frame where it's off screen

then we can turn it completely off

so let's take a look at what we've done here

see how that's playing out

and if you notice

you see it gives a

gives it a lot of dynamics

you know you really kind of feel that

that that energy that ejectile eject

ejection projectile from the gun

and it almost simulates

a bit of a camera shake to a degree

which is something we may add later on

to kind of push it even further

these are cool effects

that you can't really push too far so

that's that effect there um

now let's just go back

okay there we go

alright so I think this is um

good enough for this lesson here

um next lesson

next class actually we're going to uh

jump in into start doing some um

interactive lighting on both the gun and the soldier

so thanks for joining us this class

and we will see you next class