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Guitar strings animation

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 12:22 pm
by kacey101
Hi

Has anyone tried creating a clip simulating the look of vibrating guitar strings?

So far I have created the 6 strings in a 3D space (using 6 iterations of very thin, long polygons - rotated) and I'm using Edge Distort with the Intensity linked to the volume of the audio source to try to simulate the string vibrations. This is looking OK but if anyone has other ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Be gentle, I am very much a beginner with this.

Thanks

Keith C.

Re: Guitar strings animation

Posted: Sat Dec 11, 2021 2:34 pm
by Sadler
Here is my take on this using four nodes and one global. Not physically accurate but a nice feel to it (IMHO).
Screenshot 2021-12-11 141717.png
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and the global:
Screenshot 2021-12-11 141843.png
Screenshot 2021-12-11 141843.png (10.41 KiB) Viewed 2586 times
I give a similar example of adding subtle audio visualisation in this tutorial.

Re: Guitar strings animation

Posted: Mon Dec 13, 2021 4:32 pm
by kacey101
Sadler wrote:Here is my take on this using four nodes and one global. Not physically accurate but a nice feel to it (IMHO).
Screenshot 2021-12-11 141717.png
and the global:
Screenshot 2021-12-11 141843.png
I give a similar example of adding subtle audio visualisation in this tutorial.
Many thanks. You have certainly given me a lot of ideas to think about. I appreciate your time.

Thanks again

Keith C.