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rkern
02-15-2005, 01:17 AM
I'm working on an animation in which a water tower explodes but I'm having difficulty getting the water to where I'm happy with it. Any Suggestions on how to achieve this?

I'm still relatively new to Cinema so I still have a lot to learn about it....

I've attached the current state of the animation...it's early on and crits are always welcome... still needs much work....
Exploding tower (http://www.russkern.com/animation/Explosion10.mov)

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Creature
02-15-2005, 08:18 AM
For the water you could try to use your current particle system but with spheres in a metanurbs object as particels. The animation of the particles looks quite good.

I guess the animation of the scene is not finished but here's what I saw:
- roof falling down
- body of the tower intersecting with the ladder

I like the deformation of the water tank. Maybe you can add some visible cracks where the water first leaks out
rkern
02-15-2005, 11:48 AM
For the water you could try to use your current particle system but with spheres in a metanurbs object as particels. The animation of the particles looks quite good.

I guess the animation of the scene is not finished but here's what I saw:
- roof falling down
- body of the tower intersecting with the ladder

I like the deformation of the water tank. Maybe you can add some visible cracks where the water first leaks out

Thanks for the response... I'll give the MetaNurbs a try... was hoping to avoid the long render time of using Metanurbs... but what the heck.......

Details are not finished yet..but thanks a lot for the input.... Plan on having the top pop off ... spin in the air and land on top... ladder fall off over the side....
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