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Douglask

12-19-2002, 12:27 AM

hey guys, I was wondering if any of you know how to go about doing a time tunnel / worm hole effect and what sort of textures you would use? --blasting through space at the speed of light! Any ideas or pages that you think would help would be great!!

Cheers! :beer:

leigh

12-19-2002, 09:32 PM

The best method is generally to create the geometry for the wormhole, and then use animated procedurals to create the swirling effect.
What software are you using?? :)

Douglask

12-19-2002, 09:37 PM

Hello! I'm using maya! I have everything modeled and animated and ready to go, just looking for a method for producing an effect similar to this link http://www.scifi-meshes.com/tutorials/SFA/slipstream.htm except in maya...don't really know my translation from lightwave to maya!

any ideas?

TMortan

12-24-2002, 04:19 PM

I made a similar effect with max a while back with using the fire effect attached to a cylinder gizmo. I put the camera directly above and increase the perspective.

It might cause a few problems depending on what type of animation your doing, but none the less it looks cool.

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