Ratatatat! Particle gunfire eroding a wall.

[kevman3d]

I did this quick and simple little example scene for the last NZLWUG meeting. I figured its worth posting up for people to pull apart.

The key things I wanted to demonstrate here were:
(a) Using ClothFX without any elasticity to create 'dentable' materials
(b) Interaction between PFX and ClothFX
(c) The use of child emitters to create debris and dust from impact of gun fire
(c) The use of LW9 Node based gradients to create 'deep' materials.

The Nodes work, but the distance measurement can be done better (and easier) then the hack job I whacked together there Not in this zip is the transparency gradient I added at the LWUG meeting to show how the bullets could eventually 'eat' their way through the wall, and an improved bump effect.

All the dynamics are currently using pre-calculated pfx and mdd's. Simply clear motion on each to tweak the settings.

Hope this is useful or interesting for people...

Kev.

[Joerg]

Sounds like a good meeting!

[Mr Stressbunny]

Ingenious Kev!

Who would have thought of that. Another top-notch tutorial. If only I'm still in auckland.

I think I may try something like that. but instead of a wall, I'll shoot someone and let blood spray and drip.


sue guan

[HowardM]

good stuff

[kevman3d]

Who would have thought of that. Another top-notch tutorial. If only I'm still in auckland.

Dusseldorf?! No wonder you stopped turning up at LWUG meetings!

Kev.

[kaden]

I thort it was pretty funny when we did that mortor shot just before we left the user group, we had to slow down the collision null right as it hit the wall so it could push the points apart creating a hole, at full speed it just made a dent lol

[kevman3d]

I thort it was pretty funny when we did that mortor shot just before we left the user group, we had to slow down the collision null right as it hit the wall so it could push the points apart creating a hole, at full speed it just made a dent lol

lol! Yes, pushing that collision null through the wall at too fast a speed I think moves in too larger steps to be detected properly. I'll see if there's anything else we can do for the next LWUG meeting in this area - Maybe improve upon this technique in a more realistic 'setting' and see how it fairs creating a VFX sequence for a 'real' scene.

[HowardM]

did you try lowering your calculation resolution?

[kevman3d]

Nope. But point taken...

[design__3d]

how do u lower the resolution of ure calculation?