johnl3d

project 10.5r slower speed and distance remember most of this is default settings for other settings crystal1.prj

basically same project different settings crystallite.mov

10.5 project less background ..camera rotoscope crystal.prj

here's a quickie using the explosion plugin...to just have it crack you could limit the speed and distance of the explosion crystal.mov

Hey Phil...here is a hint..let me know if this helps Its better if you figure this out than you can do this whenever you want questions click on my name and email me

Nicely done

Gene thought you might like a commercial....sorry no sound had less than an hour for newer users render as lines = web words =font wizard spider = illustrator wizard....if I had more time he'd move.. Model of course by Gene 1st render glue.mov

very nice it looks like you had fun with this

Fantastic

Phil materials not enbedded so hard to see what you did i put a pose slider just to control output on simple model see if that helps poseslider.prj

you could control the smoke direction in the chor by controling gravity ...if i have time i'll try it and post and you should be able to control a lot of things with sprites with pose sliders

can you post a sample of what you are trying for...

Nice Modeling Jeff ...yes you need some scales or texture

i always made stripes with the checker set up ...just zero out the appropriate value to make the stripes

this looks better than the older version of AM http://johnl.inform.net/pages/9test1.htm but as a side note you can "adjust " gravity in the timeline which might help you tweak the box falls

oh and thanks Vern didn't know i was on one of yours top ten lists for those who want to play with this here is the project 381k V11.1 lightman.zip

actually i wasn't going to post this because the arrms aren't right and the sprites where too small i fixed the sprites but the arms still aren' t right 789k i'll have to actually think about this one a little to get the lighted arms and even the legs to do want i was thinking probably with a few more constraints lightman1.mov

Matt I always enjoy your posts you have a lot of artistic skill

sometime the idea is better than the results 147k lightman.mov

nice animation and music

I decided to look at bvh files and got one and used shaggy in a very rough attempt to get the feel for using the bvh action. I only matched four points of shaggy to the file which you can see since i did it in shaded mode so it is not very good but you get the idea 653k bvh.mov

your lightening effect was good and i've just been playing with this longer and so just continue to practice and look at how other people do things. Go to my site and download some projects and see if you can figure out what i did if not ask http://johnl.inform.net/ or even here http://www.geocities.com/johnl3d/ also read the stuff at ARM http://www.lowrestv.com/arm/ I use to read every post when it was just list mail and i learned alot and tried alot Johnl3d the old guy

actually all that it was showing was a cheap way to add people to a scene with the woman being an example no real effects here

thanks to ddustin I downloaded the sample files from here http://www.marlinstudios.com/products/people/people.htm I made a plane and used the alphas as a tranparency decal and the other as color and added some flames from Colin...but forgiot to loop them and got this the alpha seems to be a little messed up but it could be my placement STILL.mov

Very nice TREE ! must be great to be able to model so nicely