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nawaz1983

02-11-2005, 04:29 PM

hi there peeps

i was wonder if any one can tell me if theres a way other than using a bomb space warp to break apart or blow up a object, i have CG Academy AfterBurn Masters DVD, where allan mckay blows up a teapot, but i wanna no how he does it

thanks for any help

cheers
nawaz1983

LoneRobot

02-11-2005, 05:01 PM

the old way was to do it with a particle array and select "object fragments". check the online help. He's also done a tutorial where he uses the quickfrag script and a bit of PFLOW scripting.

amckay

02-14-2005, 10:02 PM

Unfortunately AllanMcKay.com is down right now (domain/hosting issues). It should be up soon. Basically the way I went about breaking a teapot is that I wrote a script to fragment the object, and then I read in all the transform and trimesh data into my pflow script. If you use parray you're going to get exactly the same results, as I used parray to fracture my object. Nothing too fancy here.

feldy

02-17-2005, 09:26 PM

w00t the master said it

allan very nice dvds all 3 at cga and turbo squid have all of them. just wonering what is your email down too?

amckay

02-17-2005, 09:56 PM

thanks - will be doing some more soon, a lot more hands on than the last...

yeah my site's down, hopefully back up soon. quite frustrating as I have a lot of new material I want to put up.

feldy

02-18-2005, 12:24 AM

For the most part i was wondering if you were ever going to be doing some thinking particles tourtials and so on like you do with pflow.

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