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Christian Graham writes:
>
>I'm trying to create a basic model of the Bohr Atom and I want to achieve an e
f
>fect whereby the electron spinning around
>the nucleus leaves a trail behind it showing its previous path. I've got a ni
c
>ely spinning electron but no amount of messing
>about (sorry experimenting) with motion blur and various levels of anti-aliasi
n
>g seems to give me quite the effect I'm looking
>for. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
A good "trail" effect can be had by loading the PREVIOUSLY rendered
frame in as a foreground with a largish dissolve factor, like 75%.
Use "-1" as the frame offset in the IMAGE requestor.