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metal box hits table with soft (cloth) ball newton3.mov

try volumetric lighting for murky water i used it with my goldfish long ago http://www.geocities.com/johnl3d/ click on pictures in menu

thanks will be doing more conventional tests too . Blobbies render quickly if you turn down/or off blobbiness %

11.1h oh i also added some turbulence to the light and turned down the volumetrics volumetrical.prj

this is a rush trial but i put a volmetric bulb in the globe and varied the light's fall off . Not sure if this will be of any use but the light size (gllow) does change volmetrical.mov

Another quick test with hair ....streaks on the left ...blobbies on the right and gravity changing its mind. Also I peaked all the vertices and got a fanfoldish result Just want to mention that even with all this happening render was much faster than before..although I did simulated the cloth with all the emiters turned off first yeahII.mov

Will be doing more tests including a hairy one it was late when I started so threw that this one together with what i found on hand then rendered posted and went to bed. In 8.5 I had invisible cloth with streaks wrap on ball great meteor

Nicely done you really have a way with women

three materials including one with sprites and it simulates great yeah.mov

project file beta 4 v12 transpose.prj

quick example transpose.mov

great character as are most of the ones on the sketch link

v12 beta 3 EXNEW.prj

Based on the squashy bones post I added a rand() expression to the X,Y,Z scaling properties and imported multiple copies and turned on the pose to use the expression in each . Now will have to try to add a simcloth ball to the mix with the original model as a defector but not tonight EXRANDOMSIZE.mov

Great very entertaining loved the whole composition

do a search for clouds there was a lot of discussion on this in the last 90 days or so. for non sprite clouds http://johnl.inform.net/pages/10material16.htm http://johnl.inform.net/pages/roto1.htm again other examples click on search (upper right ) do all forums clouds

Nice job for quick idea

The project file 11.1h included the tga file for the "Wheat" image hope this helps wheat.zip

Thought this might explain what I meant Also Matt alias John Bigfoote is really good with hair he might be able to help wheatfield.mov

I googled for wheat stalk and found a piece of jewelry that had wheat stalks which I then reduced to a few stalks with erase then alpha channeled the remaining stalks and saved as a tga file. Set up hair material used the image for the hair set it to I think 5cm wide and applied to simple model. I think I spend about 20 minutes on this and most of that was setting up the tga file. Hope that helps oh color with alpha channel Oh Pixel Dust is this you found it in old collection of AM stuff remember it was a great face model and thought it was yours

quicky idea wheat.mov

Animating picture is easy with AM and Photoshop. I grab the picture quickly got rid of the background made a path around the remainder exported path as Illustrator path Imported into model in AM with IA wizard applied picture as decal did a few adjustments and rendered like here http://johnl.inform.net/pages/pretend.htm

looks like it would be fun to animate fast.mov

tried the frog I was trying to model and rig with an action and toon render defaulttoonfrog.mov

Mike I think that is part of problem I'll have to adjust the positioning of a few bones since the head and shoulders meet thanks for looking