MATrickz Posted December 21, 2004 Posted December 21, 2004 Here's something I made really quick after seeing one of the animations on the Maxwell website. The topic is in the OT section, you should check it out. Anyways, it made me want to try to mimic liquid with a:m, this is the best I could do but I'm still playing around with it, I'll post some other things later if I get something cool . All it is is a model of a wineglass with a seperate model for the wine with a seperate bone. The wine tilts with the glass because of the bone, but the surface of the liquid is cloth with gravity turned off and a force to give the surface ripples. Its nothing special but it looks cool, although I wish you could see the ripples better. Download the project if you want to see what I mean! Post if you make some liquidy stuff with a:m, maybe this topic can be used for thinking up ideas of how you can make good looking liquid in a:m. -Later Click for the Animation Also Click for the WireFrame Animation Click for the Project Quote
MATrickz Posted December 21, 2004 Author Posted December 21, 2004 By the way here is the site Maxwell go to the animations, there is one with liquid in a ball Quote
Guest mrsl13 Posted December 21, 2004 Posted December 21, 2004 MAT..... That looks really good...lets see it spill....(smile) Thanks for the prj file also..Ill need to give it a study .. Mike C. Quote
MATrickz Posted December 21, 2004 Author Posted December 21, 2004 Here is a screenshot from an animation I'm currently renderiing, its at about 49% and should be done in 9 hours Quote
pdaley Posted December 21, 2004 Posted December 21, 2004 Would you be the least bit interested in including a project showing this technique on the next HASH CD? It's a cool effect and we're a little low on cool effect projects... Quote
MATrickz Posted December 21, 2004 Author Posted December 21, 2004 Definately! The new animation that is rendering right now was actually hand animated, but I'm trying to work cloth into some other water scenes and I'll post as soon as I get it to look right Quote
Guest mrsl13 Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 Ooooo.. that looks cool also...I wana see that animation for sure... Mike C Quote
rbjohnsn Posted December 22, 2004 Posted December 22, 2004 I tried viewing the media file and had an error, so I tried downloading the PRJ file. The problem I had with the file was missing the models. Was the project consolidated before submitting it? Quote
MATrickz Posted December 22, 2004 Author Posted December 22, 2004 hmm..there shouldnt be any missing files . What are the files that are missing? The only thing I can think of are the skylights but those arent needed, that was just for the final render. As for the animation not working, I'm really sorry, winamp really sucks and so I'm converting all of my animations to Quicktime instead. Its easier to view anyways, I hope that clears a few things up, the animation should be up here any second.. For now, I just finished the new animation and converted it to quicktime. (Only700Kb and better quality than winamp! A great free converter is called TMpegEnc) Anyways, I originally tried to make it look like water but it came out looking a little too viscous, so now it kinda acts like some kind of clear syrup. I'm still happy with how it looks though, and I hope you are too! Tell me what you think! I'll keep working on this stuff and update whenever I find something worth telling. The animation and project files are below.. The Animation The Project EDIT:: just wanted to add that it took around 16 hours to render , sorry it isnt longer or better looking Edit once again:: Here are the animations of the wine in Quicktime for those who couldnt view it, unfortunately I deleted the originals so they dont look great now, but at least you get the idea. The Animation The Wireframe Quote
Admin Rodney Posted December 22, 2004 Admin Posted December 22, 2004 Impressive Brandon. Very Nice! Quote
MATrickz Posted December 25, 2004 Author Posted December 25, 2004 http://www.3dshowcase.lunarpages.com/4D/2004/DW%20Final.m1v Another test of a drop of black liquid falling into a pool of more of the stuff. I just watched the previews for the movie dark water lol Quote
Roughy Posted December 25, 2004 Posted December 25, 2004 when playing the vid the framerate drops to near nothing during the last few frames (when it actuly hits). looking at it frame by frame it does look great!, but hard to realy comment without seeing it smooth. Quote
MATrickz Posted December 25, 2004 Author Posted December 25, 2004 Aww, I thought it was just doing that on my computer.. Does anyone know of a good mpeg converter. I'm using TMpeg, and it works great except that it plays slow on quicktime, but works great if you open it in Windows Media Player. Thanks Quote
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