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3D Studio Max
animating a seedling growing/pushing through soil
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michaelhussar 1 posts23 Apr 2009Hi All
I need to be able to do this for about 30 seedlings and have some kind of procedural control with each
instance growing differently
I tried using cylinders and path deforms but it turns out looking too mechanical.
and a simple animating scaling technique doesn't account for the growing/moving in a twisty organic way
any ideas would be much appreciated!
Thanks
Mgh
Using max 9 sp2 dual xeon 2gigs ram -
25 Apr 2009Hi Michael, I did this recently in a spot.
What I did, was skinned a long cone (stem) with bones, and animated the bones from a curled-up position, to a straight position. Then I linked the flower petals and leaves to the bones, grouped the whole thing, and used pflow to scatter the flowers over a plane. I think the result was pretty nice...you can see the finished result here:
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... g_Prog.mov -
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