johnl3d

I never played with the materials like evironmental map so I decide to try it with a tga i had played with in PS. I created a planet which looked good until I "flew" toward it. I'll post the project on my site if anyones interested because its too big for the forum because of the tga aplanetdecal.mov

project for tree including tga best I could do in 15 minutes palm.zip

did a quick palm tree in v11.1 palm.mov

playing with v11.1 hair and notice that gravity can be varied in chor ...interesting...anyway leaves minor stem and fruit are one strand of hair will post project later htree.mov

I usually like to respond to questions on the forum/list especially if it looks like fun so yes I did that on purpose ..and wasn't going to redo with sprites but if I have time I might to see the reflection ..that I forgot look here http://johnl.inform.net/pages/9particle17.htm

here's the project V11 right click save target as land.prj

Tried to bounce some streaks...forgot they didn't reflect also...sprites would bounce better land.mov

Project file not including sprite from cd (right click save target as) fontsline.prj

v11.1 fonts all one model all "letters" have a bone translate to constraint with lag based on position then model constrained to path fontline.mov

Boolean cutters don't like sprites..that was my first idea..but early terminate of the render ended that chain of thought. The sprites are wrong just grabbed one off the cd for testing and the action was also done in haste as it wa getting late and I wanted to test the overall effect idea. Will clean it up and post as time allows. I often get these ideas right before I should be shutting down so they are often rough tests . the boolean without sprites was going to expose a crumbled version simliar to this post..use imagination... http://johnl.inform.net/pages/boolmorph.htm

Yes I know the sprites are wromg and some of the action is too but this was the first quick render done in about 45 minutes before I turn in close or way off crumbled.mov

Don't stay a newbie post more often!!!

added a couple of images to v11 hair and renderd for awhile also added some sprites..one of the same tgas as the hair alien life form ? f11_2.mov

a John with some talent...great modeling

to be honest i think the movement...again i "think" is caused by the collisions when the hair "turns on" and just continues at least for the period I rendered. I was just playing with the hair in general and so i posted what you see because it looked interesting. Project below f11_1.prj

got to hand it to yah nice job

setting color thickness kinkiness over time really great idea f11_.mov

project file multimat.prj

v111.1 combiner material v11.1 hair and streaks all on top patches multimat.mov

I did this before shutting down for the night just roughing out an idea so its far from perfect. I used a material that is animated on the z and y axis on two faiirly close planes to add depth. It needs a lot of tweaking and maybe it won't work as I thought it might but will post on it later if I get it to look better and I guess I did 'try" instead of do or maybe in this case dew Tinkering

material on two planes animated looks okay for first try ? h20.mov

I overdid the elevation just threw in a number and rendered and thus we have the crash at the end as i didn't take too much time for the path. I try to do these samples in 30 minutes or less Here's the project less the deathstar decal it made the file too big Jeff any question just emai me dem.zip

grabbed a dem type gray scale off the web at tried this ...another quick example ....can post project if interested found something to fly over too sorry about the crash...no time to fix dem.mov

There is no do AM does it all You make the material real easy (set scale) you apply and select colors you set a few values in chor move x units over x time you render AM does the displacement the movement the color you tweak A lot less work then the displacment map or use darktree it animates itself http://johnl.inform.net/pages/105sim.htm

and here is the project file version 11t ocean.prj