AfterBurn - chat with Peter Shipkov

[ashishdantu]

Hello Peter Shipkov,

coming to the idea of assigning the preset on chosen particleShapes, ya, i guess you are correct that we will have to check for existing PP connections. I guess we can add some kind of "PP attributes found. DO u want to replace them 100 % or give them an option of
blending as to how much they want "..

Some thing like what happens in this tool found it on highend >FluidsTools.mel v0.1:: [ By Alex Ongaro ] -
Link:
http://www.highend3d.com/files/dl.3d?group=melscripts&file_loc=FluidsTools-v0.1-.mel&file_id=2553

in which he has given provision for selecting source container and target and we can fetch and assign color
/ incand / opacity / environment ramps values. he uses "gAEAttrPresetBlend;"..

Last thing, can i copy and paste ur email in cgtalk so i can share it with others ?

-regards,
>ashish

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hi again

i checked the possibilities to add the fluid stuff to already existing particleShapes and i think it is a pain.
If the particleShapes have some PP attributes with attached to them dynamicExpressions, ramps, arrayMappers, whatewer other, then the tings
are going tricky. I dont know a stable way how to merge the existing expressions with these created by AfterBurn - i have few things in mind
but in most cases they will damage more than help. Why that i decided to keep the things as they are - we prefere something stable instead of
half backed solutions. In fact i never had serious problem to delete my existing particleShape and to attach the "fluidParticles" to emitters,
collisions, fields. But the best way is always stable pipeline +
thinking before acting :)

One of the guys asked how to create a tornado effect - i would say that the dynamic part can be easily represented in Maya, but Maya's shading
possibilities are not enough to cover the needed result - we can use some sprites + shading nodes ( stroika plug-ins are very helpfull for
that ), but to create big scale volumetrics we need something like Houdini's i3d stuff - pointClouds. I dont think afterburn will be very
helpfull for this kind of FX.

Also i checked out the fluidTools - very interesting, but i cant apply them over expressions, i can create new PPattributes and to merge the
outputs bethween them, but i need to put big efforts to make this working stable. And of course you can share everything we are talking about with the
rest of the gang.

Thanks

Peter

[thematt]

thanks for that very of peter giving eplanation.and very kind of you leting us now.
Great tool by the way.

cheers

[ftaswin]

Thanks hips Peter,

Afterburn has been my fav toy this past 2 weeks

[HowardM]

Thanks Peter! Great stuff!
:D

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