Mud Splattering effect.....

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Mud Splattering effect.....
by Vin on Nov 27, 2003 at 8:11:07 am

Hi All, I'm relatively new to PI, just getting the hang it all. But I'm after a particular effect, if someone can steer me in the right direction.

I'm wanting to create a mud splatter effect. Like if you're looking out a window and someone throws mud at it, it'll splat on the window, and then slowly run down.

Any suggestions on the best way to achieve this.

Many thanks

vin

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Re: Mud Splattering effect.....
by Elvis Deane on Nov 29, 2003 at 9:21:48 pm

I took a couple of stabs at this, but I'm still not sure the best way to go about it. I thought maybe using Don't Erase would be best, because that would let the particles leave a trail behind as they fell. That attempt ended up looking like a big brown blob. Then I tried a super emitter, but it ended up looking more like a muddy firework than anything.

Here's the "muddy firework" one if you want to have a look. The graphs I played around with most were the f-velocity over life graph, and the f-weight over life, basically trying to get the motion of a quick burst, a momentary stop, and then making the free emitters fall and leave a trail.

http://pi.shockingtales.com/ipf/mudTest.zip

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Re: Mud Splattering effect.....
by Vin on Nov 29, 2003 at 11:40:37 pm

Many thanks for your help.... will look at it over the weekend.

cheers

vin

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Re: Mud Splattering effect.....
by Vin on Nov 30, 2003 at 3:40:19 am

Elvis,
I'm having trouble opening the project file. I keep gettimg a
"not a valid particle illusion project file: error, each time I try to
load the file.

I've never had any problems loading PI3 files before?? tried loading other PI3
files an have no problems with them.

cheers
vin

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Re: Mud Splattering effect.....
by Alan Lorence on Nov 30, 2003 at 1:01:24 pm

Elvis probably created that file with the 3.0.1 beta. You won't be able to open it until I release 3.0.1 in a few days.

(I would have already released 3.0.1 but I can't get confirmation that the changes fixed the problem with the Canopus DV codec.)

Alan.

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Re: Mud Splattering effect.....
by Mel Anderson on Nov 30, 2003 at 11:35:56 pm

I am willing to test for the Canopus codec; however, I was away last week when you posted the beta link, and it now seems not to be working. Can you send the beta update to me as an E-Mail attachment? or re-activate the link?

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