Emanuele Berti Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hi everybody, I've just finished another personal project and I'd like to share it with you. http://www.vimeo.com/9153952 This time I took the idea from an RnD called "Electricity Weapon" by Brandon Riza and I tried to improve it and make it fully procedural through the use of CHOPs. I created a digital asset that controls how a laser weapon looks and behaves. This HDA controls: The starting and ending positions which are taken from its inputs (two nulls), the starting radius, the shoot's starting frame and its velocity, the shoot's ending frame and its velocity, the velocity and the number of turns around the main straight line, the number of frames of gap between the collision and the explosion, the constant material's attributes and the width of the lines. In this example there are three lasers (those use the same HDA with different parameters) around an unique straight line. Their animation, the column's explosion (with debris and dust) and the fluid from the lasers are controlled by a bunch of CHOPs. In this way I've been able to achieve a whole procedural workflow. As soon as possible I'll make a technical video to show you how the controls work and some other rough examples. Cheers, Emanuele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackchicken Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Really cool effect, I like it. Ill be waiting for your technical video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclaes Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Make it drill a hole through the pillar! Cool stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mightcouldb1 Posted February 2, 2010 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Good stuff as always! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macha Posted February 3, 2010 Share Posted February 3, 2010 Hehehehe, it's quite funny this. Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuele Berti Posted February 3, 2010 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 Thanks everybody, @blackchicken: I hope to find soon some spare time to do it. @Peter: ehehe, good idea... actually the fracture in the pillar it's already animated, so, it wouldn't be difficult to make it through it; I was thinking to do something else... I'd like to make two laser collide each other and add a fluid from that collision to do my personal version of what they did in "Harry Potter and the goblet of fire": @mightcouldb: "as always" sounds too good for me, it's only my third experiment, so, Thanks a lot... @Macha: I'm sorry Macha, I didn't catch the funny side of my RnD... Anyway, thanks guys for your appreciation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emanuele Berti Posted February 12, 2010 Author Share Posted February 12, 2010 Hi All, I've just published the "Laser weapon - Making of": http://www.vimeo.com/9401127 I'm looking forward to receive your critics and comments. Cheers, Emanuele Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackchicken Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 looks really cool, will be there some digital asset? A lott of learning in this stuff. Thanks a lot Emanuelle....BC... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyei nightmare Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 looks really cool, will be there some digital asset? A lott of learning in this stuff. Thanks a lot Emanuelle....BC... yeah good effect, i would like to see a digital asset or a hip file too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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