Some Storm Tracer Presets

[rsquires]

lovely thanks for sharing

rich

[ooo]

Great! Many thanks for sharing :thumbsup:

[acmepixel]

Wow, these are very nice.

many thanks.

:bounce:

[FantaBurky]

Nice, how do you create own presets? can you use like a model you create as a preset or just textures (in that case how do you create forms like the grass blades for instance)?

[jsls]

Thanks for the presets, I really love the coral on the demo reel...very cool stuff!!! Thanks again...

[fretshredder]

Really great stuff. Very generous of you. Thanks!! http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/thumbsup.gif

[anibalin]

thanks for sharing :)

[Chrissyboy]

Hi all,

I have some Storm Tracer Presets for you.
I hope you like it...

Looks great, Kicks, very generous. From a non-ST owner, can anyone tell me how animatable these things are? Especially the fur, that would be very useful for a current project if it could be viewed from all angles. My instinct says that it wouldn't work, the fur is just placards - is this right, or have I underestimated the power of ST ;-)

Cheers - Chris

[Per-Anders]

check the third party forums for examples of animated sequences using storm, and the storm gallery. also check the reel.

if you use organic cloning then you can fly around it as you please, orgnic cloning shapes are fully 3d, they just use the sprites to render themselves for speed (think of them like using storm to render splines). short fury style renders that don't use organic cloning have a few tricks up their sleeves to help with the effect, shortening when their 3d orientation is more otwards the camera etc, i'm sure some users could come up with some examples to show the various effects.

[Per-Anders]

and here's a couple of examples i quickly knocked up just now myself showing their "3d-ness", just a camera move around a simple sphere.

here's using organic cloning:

http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/st/movies/hairrotate.mov

and here using just normal sprites with heading and velocity stretch

http://www.peranders.com/c4d8/st/movies/hairrotate2.mov

it's worth remembering that hair/fur isn't what storm is designed to do, this sort of thing is really just a by-product of the flexibility of storm. and while stuff like organic cloning can animate according to parameters like growth, gravity and wind, it doesn't have inertia effects, and at the end of the day it is just volumetric sprites.

[Zendorf]

Nice one Kicks :thumbsup: I was also a fan of the coral shot on the demo reel, so I will interested to pull apart your preset and see how you have done it! I love the subtle colour gradation on it...

[Kicks]

fine, makes me happy if you like it.

I have some Presets still on my Harddisk. But I must rework
these for the current Storm tracer version
in some days i will present some new presets.

[chris_b]

Per, is there any chance that organic cloning will implement some form of inertia
in the future, or is this a fundamental impossibility. I wonder if something workable
could be accomplished using instanced splines with dynamics... Has anybody tried
using Shave with Storm Tracer? Can dynamic Shave splines be rendered with ST?

[Per-Anders]

you should be able to render any splines with storm tracer. so you can use dynamics etc on normal splines, and you could even try using the spline input for the dynamics of organic cloning in storm (hmm, an interesting idea that i've not considered before).

the main trouble for storm and dynamics is that when it deals with a very large number of clones (in the millions) it's the memory issue that's the killer, shave does it by using hair guides that are then interpolated between, but storm isn't a hair system, it's just a sprite system with an inbuilt l-system, and so needs to be a bit more flexible.

[boxy]

really nice, very kind thanks.
I will be an ST owner very soon:)
Boxy

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