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3d Studio Max - Maxscript
Scripted Particle Deformations.....
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08 Oct 2006Hey folks,
Saw some cool scripts over at Orbaz.com that inspired me to try this out...
Basically, the idea is to get particles to drive mesh deformations.
First, we cause our pflow system to generate 1 particle at each vertex point on our target mesh, and then we lock all of the mesh vertices to those particles.
Once we do that.....we just setup the particle system like we would any particle system (adding forces/deflectors/speed operators etc etc) and voila....our mesh transforms to whatever shape the particle cloud forms!
Here are some example playblasts of the type of thing it could do:
1) In this playblast, I added a pbomb and a planar deflector to the Pflow system, and once the scripts are executed on the Sphere mesh, it gives us a weird balloon-breaking type deformation.
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Scripts/ ... eform1.mov
2) In this playblast, we simulate mud/footsteps by generating the particles over the surface of a plane, and then by adding some collision events to the pflow system to simulate mesh displament.
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Scripts/ ... eform2.mov
As for downloading the actual script...although the script is pretty solid so far, there are a couple of things I'd like to fix before posting it
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08 Oct 2006dude... this just boggles my mind. screw writing a book, autodesk should hire you and pay you a million dollars an hour to create plug-ins and amazing tools. Max 10 could be the be-all, end-all of 3d programs.
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08 Oct 2006Hahah nah.....these are all just basic functions.
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08 Oct 2006yeah, i guess so, to those in the know.
i am not in the know.
i'm so looking forward to the script - unless it only works in v8, too!
well, even then, i'm gonna upgrade at SOME point! -
08 Oct 2006No this one should work in former versions of max as well
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08 Oct 2006Thats great mate. We're gonna have to add a scripts download page just to cope with all this crazy genius stuff ur creating.
I know these last scripts have been (fairly) simple, at least for you, to make... What i'm thinking is could you think of any ways of doing like a blobmesh surface kind of thing, but one that acts more like glu or real flow where it calculates the blending and such better? Or even better, a script that does particle-particle interaction... like you see in fluids where you can fill up a box with water, or dump a bucket of sand and get a sand pile or particles bounce off each other in mid air? I'm so out of the loop with max scripting + pflow these days that I cant even begin to think if it's possible without delving into C++. -
08 Oct 2006Ooh ooh, and... does this one have the ability to do like soft selections on the mesh so you can have it deform like that (go down), but also to have the edges go up?
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08 Oct 2006Cam, you're asking T to make a fluid plugin! hahahaha! that rocks!
i must admit, T, you DO make it look pretty easy, and it's not hard to see how all this MIGHT lead to a form of fluid simulation. -
08 Oct 2006Hahah speaking of fluids......I was playing around with getting things to work better/faster (which they do now).....and came up with this:
Kind of a neat melting/freezing effect......a pBomb blows away some of the particles, and then they stop based on a random Age Test.
http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Scripts/ ... eform3.mov
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09 Oct 2006I still can't say if you're nuts or a genius
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09 Oct 2006dont release it just yet!! this could be the first topic for the scripting workshop !! . sigh. nice work as usual . i knew you could attach objects to particles , i didnt know you could do the same thing with verts. btw is this all keyed ? or does it update with the pflow?(in reference to the first sim)
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09 Oct 2006It updates with pflow (ie...nothing is keyed or cached)
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts10 Oct 2006tyson great ausom work but is this ur idea i mean are u the maker of this for the first time and no one else thought of this before you cause if so u could get really famous i think this will rock the 3d world GREAT WORK REALLY I CANT BELEIVE MY EYES U SURE BECOMING BETTER AND BETTER -
10 Oct 2006Haha nope man...like I mentioned in the original post, I saw something similar done over at Orbaz.com
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10 Oct 2006 Seriously Tyson man, that looks friggin awsome. The first red ball looks great, it looks almost like a cloth when it touches the 'ground', i agree with what Hype has to say - go work for them man, Autodesk needs you!
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