johnl3d

Can the mechanism be done with an expression..I made this simple model rotating two wheel in opposite directions controlled with an expression and then dragged the model into an action and got this machine.mov wheels.zip Otherwise like Ken said make one action and drop multiple models into the chor wiith the action

for sprites,bloobies,fluid set their collision with objects to yes and select the bounce % or die on impact

Looks interesting

I see you have been working out at the gym it shows ...nice work Jeff

Did you save and then reopen that sometimes clears up problems and sometimes closing AM and restarting ..just a thought

better than what I have done

quick streak rain -needs denser sky model so more streaks fall streakr.mov Puddles a Dark Tree simbiot material that animates

I thought it would turn out differently and so thought it looked pretty dumb . I guess I was wrong.

mouthful.mov Rough test of an idea needs tweaking

Not at home now but I assume the streaks are applied to a group on the model then they will follow it and you can control them by the settings in the emitter section A posting of what you are getting would help

I thought I would whip up some planets to help you Two spheres off the CD primitives with easy materials. I used materials so I could animate them tryplanet.mov I animated the materials a little too much but then this was a quicky project tryplanet.zip

Thanks for the info Here is the info above in pdf form cloth_bones.pdf

Also scaling your material could help

Matt Glad you got it to work also ...by the way I'm on an old PC p4 1.7

Glad I could help.. wasn't sure what was necessary (bones) so just guessed. Glad it worked for you

Maybe really rough test This is what I could get in 1/2 hour clothdrag.mov clothdrag.zip

depends on what effect you what lower will slow things down

I loaded the Leopard Queen project and opened a window for the barbarian and did quick render with no problems. This was on a PC Pent 4 at 1.7 Tried the helicopter same results. Will try a full render The helicopter propel group seems to be the problem if you hide this group the model will render fast but if you try to render the propel group it hangs I did a quick modification to the central part of the propel group and it now seems to render fine... the mod might need tweaking mod_helicopter.zip Will look at the barbarian later Barbarian hangs on final render

you can control this sprite smoke etc by adjusting the velocity, life ,size in the sprites properties, also adjusting the chors gravity or using a force as a fan force.

Name a group and apply the material to that group

you tried all these at least Colin's is there http://www.lowrestv.com/arm/search3.asp?bo...ateAdded%20desc

blobwet.mov Tried to have blobbies act as a slow moving puddle but wil wait for fluids or try others ideas first about a hour to render on p4 1.7

Extrude a rose easy and great ..nice job

Same Idea but I used Sweeper trying a few diffrent positions for a round petal then tweaking the swept object

If you are not seeing it in the render are you sure you have particles turned on If nothing else read and do the chapter smoke,wind and fire in TAO