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Tamis

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hey hey,

i'm making a explotion using metaballs turning them into .bgeo and then turning them into .i3d.

atm i'm rendering and visualising them with the isso offset sop.

but in my opinion this is kind of a waste.

why rebuild something thats already build ?

so i'm looking for some kind of node that can just import the i3d files for rendering.

sadly i can't find any thing ??? what am i doing wrong here ?? or correct O_o ?

thank you in advanced

tamis van der laan

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You can render metaballs directly as volumes. Check out the FX Tool shelf over at the H9 Blog.

Also, search through the SESI forum for threads related to this.

Cheers!

steven

i'm srry i guess i forgot to mention that i have modifide the metaball .bgeo with the metacloud shop generating .i3d files.

so i can't use that technique, ... i think?

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Okay, you can render .i3d files using Volumes too. Go to SHOPs, put down a Mantra Image3D Volume Procedural, specify the .i3d file & assign the procedural shader to a Geometry Object under Render > Geometry tab > Procedural Shader.

I've attached a hip file that doesn't render nicely but should give you an idea of the setup.

Cheers!

steven

i3d_volume.hip

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Hi Tamis,

If you download my hip file, please assign the Basic Smoke shader to the volume_teapot Object. Material tab > Material: /shop/basic_smoke

Please let us know how it goes & post some renders if you can.

Cheers!

steven

hey thanks for the info, seems to work.

i'll post some pictures when i got stuff tweaked.

btw: can i ask one more question ?

is it posseble to get the old documents from somewere for the older versions of houdini ?

i heared there is still some relevent information left in there.

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