johnl3d Posted May 18, 2004 Share Posted May 18, 2004 just playing with the tree trunk plug in or what trees do at night cloth_tree.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 18, 2004 Author Share Posted May 18, 2004 Got version 11 today now I can add leaves and really try my idea ..make the branches stiff cloth..the posted sample was default... then with leaves the stiff cloth tree branches can move as the cloth reacts to either a force or an object hopefully simlar to a real tree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted May 19, 2004 Admin Share Posted May 19, 2004 Incredible as ever John! Congrats on your upgrade to v11! Upon seeing your little experiments I often say, "Kewl, Why didn't I think of that!" Then I realize there is just no way to think of *and then exectute" the experiments you do. Keep it up! You never cease to amaze and educate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 Thanks Rodney but even you can do these strange things just spend 3-5 hours in traffic listening to the radio play the same songs over and over as you dodge cell phone equipted drivers. You'll get inspired... Now this is another twist on V11 hair..a big hairy army I did a simple animation of a line guy shooting..(at a cell phone. ) then used the animation as the hair decal..the white strip in this film is the model the hair material was applied to. the idea is you animate a variety of "real" characters say for a war scene or wild dance then add them to a field as various decals in hair. You now have a wild crowd for a battle scene etc. By the way the density for this shot was .01 to get the best effect keep clicking the movie so it repeates lineguy.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littleandy Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Wow. I think you have crossed the line that separates the innocently curious from the categorically insane. I mean that in a good way though. Cool stuff! That is a very interesting idea. Now I'm going to be up all night trying to figure out how to use it... -Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dace Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Please, who makes this plugin? How can I get it? Does it work on a mac? Thanks Dace Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 http://www.hash.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4556&hl=treez distributed by ZPiDER Marcel Bricman Master Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 19, 2004 Author Share Posted May 19, 2004 >That is a very interesting idea. Now I'm going to be up all night trying to figure out how to use it Actually I hope it works .....as I think it should .....but I have a few projects that were never posted because the mind is more powerful then the reality of the software johnl3d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iham Wrong Posted May 19, 2004 Share Posted May 19, 2004 Wow! An animated army duplicator made out of hair. Just think what it would be with 10 movie hair systems. Gosh! This opens up a lot of possibilities. You could make hundreds or thousands of marathon runners, cars, huge crowds and surely a field of spring flowers gently swaying in the breeze. What will you thing of next! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtpeak2 Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Hi John Tried your idea with my leaves project. Animated a couple of trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 looks pretty good to me....glad someone followed through..I keep starting to many ideas at once then I'm slow at getting back to them. you're welcome to use anything else I start johnl3d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 20, 2004 Author Share Posted May 20, 2004 did this in 1/2 hour just to try another sample spear000.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtpeak2 Posted May 20, 2004 Share Posted May 20, 2004 Well thanks to you I now know I can add animation to the hair image. Now if I render that with an alpha channel, I could add it to a chor as a layer and build a bigger forest. I'll have to try it out. By the way, how is the tree cloth going? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 21, 2004 Author Share Posted May 21, 2004 I have been too "busy" trying out some ideas and testing things to get back to the tree..by the way let me know if the alpha channel hiccups for you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtpeak2 Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 I did notice something strange today. The color of the model was rendering wrong (defaulting to original color). But I saved the project and reopened it and it rendered fine. The layers for the bigger forest worked well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamgaylord Posted May 21, 2004 Share Posted May 21, 2004 These are great!! Love the cloth tree! Great example of "things aren't quite what you expect". Very interesting adaptations of hair. I think we need a new contest category like, maybe, "The most unusually inventive things done with Animation Master". Or "Pushing the Bounds"... Very interesting work, John and Mark. Bill Gaylord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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