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Ornament plug-in for Adobe After Effects

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Author: Maxim Chernousov.
You can find more information about Ornament plug-in. Please, visit Ornament's product page on our site. There you can find freshest version of this product. Also you can find tutorials, samples and actions for our products.

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Introduction

Ornament is a very simple and very helpful filter that allows you create different kinds of new year toys for a New Year Tree decoration. You can create the beautiful toy bolls which are hanging on amazing pendants. It's very helpful for creation of Merry Christmas and Happy New Year videos. You could customize the different parameters which response for adjusting of appearance of your toys.

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Description

Geometry parameters

Rendering mode - lets you choose the drawing mode for your toys. This option is useful when you want to speed up the process of geometric properties adjustment. Keep in mind that checking the Quality checkbox improves the drawing quality but reduces the drawing speed. (Pic.1)

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Draft preview mode
Flat preview mode
Patches preview mode
Pic.1 Several posible render modes
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Faces number - allows adjust the number of pieces from which your toy is consisted.

Radius - sets the radius of your toys ball.

Position - sets a center of your toys.

Scale - responses for a scaling of your toys.

Rotation X,Y,Z - define rotation of your toys by X,Y,Z axes.

Cut alpha - makes transparent pixels which lay under your toys.



Material parameters

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Ornament can be made from glass
Pic.2 Glass toy
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Material - this list of parameters lets adjust material for a toy ball and his pendant. You can adjust how your toys will be looked. By help of these
options it is possible to express your creative ideas a lot brighter

Diffuse color - defines the basic color of the material.

Speculare color - defines the glare color.

Shininess - defines the capacity of the material to reflect light.

Shin straight - defines the shine intensity and adjusts glare size.

Self illumination - adjusts the self-illumination of the material.

Transparency - adjusts the transparency of the material.

Glass - makes the material look as glass. The initial image is then refracted in the glass toy (See Pic.2)

Multi refract - sets a more complicated way for refraction calculating.

Refraction - defines the light refraction by the glass.

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You can apply a texture on toy
Pic.3 Texture on toy
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Optical coefficient - sets the optical coefficient.

Aberration - defines chromatic aberration.

Texture - set an image for a putting under the toy's surface. (See Pic.3)

Texture percent - set a transparency for this texture.

Bump texture - set a texture for a bumping relief.

Bump percent - set a deep of the bumping.

Opacity texture - set a mask for a transparency.

Opacity percent - set a value of the transparency. You can create very interesting composition by mixing several layers with toys
and using opacity textures (See Pic.4)

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Result of mixing two layers with toys
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Toy with an Opacity texture
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Mask for Opacity texture
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Pic.4 You can create sophisticate composition by using of textures

Texture reflection - lets you specify the image to be refracted on the frostings' surface.

Reflection percent - defines how clear the image will be seen on the ice surface.

The List of parameters Material of Pendant set material's properties for a toy's pendant.


Lighting Parameters

For better results try adjusting the lighting properties of the composition. More than that, animating the lighting parameters can make your image sparkle and glare with a rainbow of colors! This will surely make your video a lot more attractive and interesting.

Multiply - defines the light source intensity.

Light color - defines the light source color.

Rotate UV, Rotate WV - define the direction of the light source in polar coordinates.

Opposition light - lets you add a second light source located opposite to the first one.



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Conclusion

Ornament is unique and simple tool designed to help you in creating of a variety of fantastic effects especially for New Year and for Merry Christmas. We hope that our modules will help you to become more successful in your work! Good luck!

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Copyright, AlphaPlugins,LLC, 2006-2009
Author: Maxim Chernousov.
You can find more information about Ornament plug-in. Please, visit Ornament's product page on our site. There you can find freshest version of this product. Also you can find tutorials, samples and actions for our products.