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chimney problem - Reactor,particles, or scatter?
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14 Apr 2006hi all!
worked on my tornado for a bit last night, and ran in to a problem i couldn't seem to get around. any advice would be SO appreciated!
so i made a chimney, and i want the chimney to come flying apart brick by brick, really fast. i started by making it an instanced brick particle that is positioned on the surface of a tall, thin box that is the size and shape of my chimney. particles seemed easiest, since they work so well with space warps. the problem is that i can't get them to be placed on the chimney box in a uniform manner, like real bricks. you know, where they lay a level of bricks, then offset the next level?
would it just be easier to make all the bricks individual gemoetries, place them however i like, and set up a reactor simulation to mimic my space warp dynamics?
is there a way to get the scatter tool do place them in that orderly manner? and if so, how would i then animate them?
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18 Apr 2006wow, so no one has any ideas for how to do this?
i've tried everything i can think of.
i put a brick map on the box i'm using as a particle emitter, and made the bricks white and the grout black, then tried to set the particle to emit from grayscale. for some reason this didn't make a bit of difference.
then i tried setting up a reactor simulation, but i've got somewhere in the realm of 400-500 bricks, so it didn't like that much. plus, there's no real vortex-type force for reactor, unless anyone knows if it's possible to get the motor force to do it.
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18 Apr 2006
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18 Apr 2006ok, it was a bit more difficult than i had hoped. Having to deal with rotations and what not getting the particles initially setup.
Seeing as its a simple model, it wasnt too bad.
If you've got max8, heres the file
You can see how i've set it up with the hidden objects.
http://simplycg.net/cameron/chimney.avi
http://simplycg.net/cameron/chimney.rar -
19 Apr 2006thanks Cam! that's exactly what i needed!
i'll try it tonight when i get home.
i had given up, and my computer is at home rendering my final tornado - but not now!
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