puffy cartoony exhaust

[jakerupert]

Does anybody by chance have a puffy cloud smoke emitter for a cartonny car,

that he could post here for me to examine and use?

 

Thanks a lot

[pixelplucker]

The black outlines looks pretty good, maybe make them just solid lines and not sketch and use a sprite emitter.

[johnl3d]

modified sprite to show in toonmode...added stroke in photoshop..did this rather quickly so could be cleaned up

 

 

pufftest.mov

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project and sprite in zip

 

pufftest.zip

[NancyGormezano]

modified sprite to show in toonmode...added stroke in photoshop..did this rather quickly so could be cleaned up

 

Hoo hoo - very cute!

[jakerupert]

Sorry, seems I didn`t make myself quite clear here.

 

My scribble was just meant to illustrate these small seperated puffy clouds,

but not meant to be rendered in toonshader.

 

Just normal fx smoke with these certain shape and animation.

 

You cartoon clouds are looking very good though.

 

Thank you.

 

any mat emitter anybody that makes that puffy clouds?

[pixelplucker]

How about this?

puffy_cloud.zip

[jakerupert]

Very nice, but I am thinking more of a streak-emmitor like I found in the attachment,

 

but this more to the shape from my first post....

EmmitorSmoke0.mat

DcartestSmoke300410.mov

[pixelplucker]

Very nice, now it looks like a FORD hehe

[jakerupert]

Actually I am looking for something similar to this.

These are just modeled shapes.

 

After some more fiddeling I got an emmitor like this,

 

But not the puffycloudshape, just a ballshape, no change of size and transparancy during exhaust...

DcartestSmokePuffy300410.mov

mp4 version:

 

EmmitorSmoke_A_Dcar.mat

[johnl3d]

try playing with these settings

 

 

apufftest.mov

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pufftest.prj

 

project uses dim tga in sprites folder under materials in data from Hash

[jakerupert]

Thanks a lot John, I will asap....

[robcat2075]

Here's my version of puffy exhaust

 

http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=38007

[Paul Forwood]

Exhaust_x4_c.mov

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This uses four sprite emitters, each with it's own "puff" material. The opacity is set at 10,20,30 and 40% for each respective emitter.

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Edit: Robert, you have been showing some really fine and interesting stuff recently. I love that rocket on a string! Nice render too.

[John Bigboote]

HEY NOW!

 

2 weeks ago I was driving home from work in my 2000 Ford Focus (167,000 miles, running great) and smelled smoke. 3 minutes later, the car was engulfed in flames... police, fire dept, crowd of gawkers etc. it was not the motor...it was a dash-wire short that...caught on fire! The entire car was totalled...windshield burst...airbags deployed...seats and dash/interior looked like a bomb had gone off, I stood by and watched helplessly.

 

I just happened to like the car so much... I bought another one! (I do not drive imported automobiles...)

 

Now, I keep a fire extinguisher and a bag of marshmallows on hand...

 

 

 

 

 

Very nice, now it looks like a FORD hehe

[MattWBradbury]

I think the smoke rising that quickly makes the car look like it has come in for a difficult landy rather than driving flat on the ground. You probably only want that smoke to rise only a little bit and have it increase in size as it gets older, say 1000% larger than when it was emitted and a lot more transparent.

[jakerupert]

yes, but any ideas how to achieve that?

[jakerupert]

yes, but any ideas how to achieve that?

[robcat2075]

I think the smoke rising that quickly makes the car look like it has come in for a difficult landy rather than driving flat on the ground. You probably only want that smoke to rise only a little bit and have it increase in size as it gets older, say 1000% larger than when it was emitted and a lot more transparent.

 

yes, but any ideas how to achieve that?

 

 

Forces have a box that shows their size like lights do. The force that pushes the particles up could be made short enough that it runs out after the particles have risen just a foot or so.

 

Or... the force could be following the car so the particles get left behind and aren't pushed up by it anymore.

[MattWBradbury]

I messed around with some of the sprite properties, and found out what works to get that sort of look. I then opened up the smoke material off of the extra CD and modified it to make it have similar properties to my test. This is what I have come up with so far. It needs a little more tweaking, but I think it's looking good so far.

 

 

HashsmokeEdited.zip

[Paul Forwood]

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yes, but any ideas how to achieve that?

You can animate the opacity and the size over the life of the sprite.

 

Here are four slightly different variations:

4variations_A00.mov

mp4 version (view full screen):

 

 

Anything anywhere near to what you were looking for?

[TheSpleen]

That was pretty good Paul!

[Paul Forwood]

Thanks, Gene.

 

Don't forget, Jake, that your particles can also display image sequences:

 

Trails18.mov

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The only problem, as you can see, is that all the particles are displaying the same frame of the sequence at the same time. You can get around this to some degree by using several emitters with the timing adjusted to start on a different frame of the sequence.

[MattWBradbury]

lol, that was pretty off the chain. You can do a lot with the sprites over their life like color, size, opacity. The material editor is a bit odd to work with at first, but it becomes easier the more you use it.

[robcat2075]

Don't forget, Jake, that your particles can also display image sequences:

 

Butterfly Drive! That's a new one!

[jakerupert]

The one with the flying saucer is quite near.

(maybe you could post the emiitor hear? just asking?)

 

But I guess, finally I almost like the clouds from Robert`s little rocket best.

 

I myself experimented with modeled clouds, with no decent results yet, though.

At the moment due to daily work, it`s hard to find time for more......

[Paul Forwood]

I'll post a project this evening.

[Paul Forwood]

Here you go(earlier than expected):

Rocket3.mov

mp4 version:

 

 

ExhaustPuffs.zip

Just add your own character hanging on for dear life to a piece of string that is trailing behind the rocket.

The sprite image is not perfect. It has a white fringe to it that could be taken out.

[jakerupert]

Thanks a lot!!!

[Paul Forwood]

You're welcome. I think the path to the graphic is wrong so you will have to reset it to the png in the sprites folder if you haven't done so already.

I played a little more:

RocketB04.mov

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