Macha Posted December 9, 2009 Share Posted December 9, 2009 Creep, foreach and motionfx. It's quite cute, I think. Lovable almost. lovelyblobs.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted December 10, 2009 Author Share Posted December 10, 2009 Here is a variation. The creepies try to avoid each other by scaling down as they get nearer to each other. The effect is adjustable so I set a certain threshold at which they just merge for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted December 11, 2009 Author Share Posted December 11, 2009 And here's a render of them behaving more lovingly. As they get closer to each other they grow in size and merge. It makes them look like waterdrops whizzing across a surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezz Posted December 11, 2009 Share Posted December 11, 2009 Hey Marc. Great render. It looks cool. Care to share some of your concepts ?? Erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted December 12, 2009 Author Share Posted December 12, 2009 Care to share some of your concepts ?? I wanted to understand the creep SOP because I never really understood how it works and what the use of it is. So, I created an object that creeps randomly along the surface. Several of them can be birthed and then given different paths via a foreach sop. I used an attribute to get the distance to the nearest neighbor and that drives the scale of the blobs. The color trails are kept persistent via a CHOP. I am now trying to let the blobs create shapes. There are some weird elongated intermediates but if all works well I can post a render of it in a few days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted December 14, 2009 Author Share Posted December 14, 2009 Here is the version with the shape-changing blobs. I get strange square shapes in the displacement. Does anybody know what they are? They look like jpeg artifacts but I haven't used any image textures, nor have I saved in a lossy format. They are on the surface. I guess it is related to sampling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0rr Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 really good stuff. I like the disrubtion in the displacement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MENOZ Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 hi! I've seen your video, I'm interested to the displacement map. How did you do to deform the map? what's the cencept? are you moving points around each blob (do you deform geometry?) or do you deform the texture? thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pencha Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 I get strange square shapes in the displacement. Does anybody know what they are? They look like jpeg artifacts but I haven't used any image textures, nor have I saved in a lossy format. They are on the surface. I guess it is related to sampling. maybe it's a displacement bound issue, have you tried adding the displacement bound rendering property to your geometry object and setting it as high as the displacement can get? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted December 15, 2009 Author Share Posted December 15, 2009 How did you do to deform the map? what's the cencept? are you moving points around each blob (do you deform geometry?) or do you deform the texture? thank you! I used an attribute that I generated from the trails by the chop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MENOZ Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 I used an attribute that I generated from the trails by the chop. can you tell more? how did you used that arribute? how do you move the map? are you moving points on surface or the map? thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrgauthier Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 It really looks good! I agree we need more details about the process! How about sharing a hip file? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asnowcappedromance Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I agree would be awesome to have a look at a hipfile! very nice materials macha! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbk!!! Posted March 10, 2010 Share Posted March 10, 2010 It would be great if you ccould share a hip file Macha There is a lot to learn with your scene. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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