... Thanks Larry, I never though of using a gradient to spawn particles. That looks almost exactly like what I want to do, although I have an actor on video...
Heres a quickie example of a body turning to ash. Again with some tuning it could look pretty good. http://www.3dtrainingonline.com/examples/ash.mov -Larry...
... Hi, ...then, I could try to animate one domino by hand and time shift this animation for all others... Does anyone know how to batch an incremental...
... At the moment, my living room. During the week I'm mostly at Shooters Post & Transfer. (shootersinc.com) It's a 4 week gig that I started a week ago,...
I found it. Go to the graph editor of the objects keyframes from a channel that is be copied (only one channel at a time). Highlight the keyframes to be...
... Thanks, I actually finished rendering since I sent that last post, so I'm done unless they want more. First time I ever rendered anything for HD. Is...
I'm attempting to calc a shattering glass pane simulation using a simple ball with CollisionFX applied and a glass pane object that's all cut up into around...
... Never mind... I think my power supply is fading fast. I couldn't even boot up without it blinking off then on and hanging. I unplugged the internal Zip...
I've experimented with shattering far less polys than that and watched my machine grind to a halt pretty quickly, and that's with 2Gb of RAM on a single P4...
Sorry to hear about the system, but that was quite a funny read. "Lightwave kill my power supply!" It reminded me of one of my systems here, the difference is...
... This is highly disappointing. Why would self collision have such a difficult time with something so simple? Maya can handle such a request in near real...
Have you thought about getting Impact? But I guess that would depend on budget too. Shaun. Nemesis CGI Ltd www.Nemesis-CGI-Ltd.biz Tel: 01424 713344 Email:...
This might be helpful: http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7528&highlight=domino Mitch ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
you can also try this: http://thespread.ghostoutpost.com/PortableTimelineEXMC.zip using the timeline you can copy the selected keyframes of all channels (or...
Sadly, It seems as of late that the answer to lots of these things is, "Buy something else." XSI, much to my chagrin to say, costs as much as one of these...
I understand where you are coming from. Seems to be a lot of this going around. Hopefully, Newtek is working on this and I am certain they are. But it it seems...
How do you jump from one camera to the other...???? ... From: "Alexx" <earthwormjim@...> To: <lw3d@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 5:19 PM ...
Not as simple as sounds. New app months of learning... New plug-in job done. I do feel impact is over price now though. The same old story pops to mind, if LW...
... Pretty much where I was coming from. As long as I can still get the job done in LW it will be our 3D weapon of choice. We are of course a small studio and...
So, it (Impact) costs $1995? The $495 XSI doesn't include rigid body dynamics. And the $1995 version doesn't include Syflex, either. ... From: "Robert Wilson"...
Not trying to buy or sell it, Jon, just lamenting the malaise it seems has fallen over the community. And though it doesn't come with it, there is the ode...