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peteb
08-10-2006, 12:20 PM
I'm trying to the look of a mesh buliding itself up in real time, like you see in a lot of intros to games.

It's a tyre and it needs to generate as if it's building up around the wheel rim. I tried with a black and white image in the transparency map and have the UV's scroll over it but from what I can tell the UV animate button in Lightwave is pretty poor and only allows a duration of a 1 second loop before it resets. I need this animation to last 3 seconds. Someone over on the Newtek forums mentioned Time based gradient but I can't find anything on this. Does anyone know of a good way of doing this?


Pete B
vonbon
08-10-2006, 05:59 PM
Maybe using the individual faces unwelded combined with some type of dynamic effect and reverse the animation and then composite out what you dont want. :shrug:
HowardM
08-10-2006, 10:59 PM
You could always use Dynamics like Cloth or HardFX and quickly blow the polys away from the object... if you hack the settings, you can get something that will fly away within one frame... then save the motion and play it backwards...
:)
Shade01
08-11-2006, 09:20 AM
I know I saw a plugin that does what you're asking, but I can't remember what it was called?. Anyone?
3dee
08-11-2006, 11:21 AM
try fertilizer (http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/%7Egoetsch/Fertilizer/).
peteb
08-11-2006, 01:16 PM
Cheers for the replys guys. Not sure about the poly idea with dynamics, wouldn't it all look a bit jerky unless the tyre was made of thousands of tiny polys?


I'll have a look at fertilzer, I thought it was for ribbons and grass blades, things like that but I guess it might be possible.


Pete B
peteb
08-11-2006, 01:18 PM
Cheers guys.

Not sure about the poly idea with dynamics as wouldn't that look a bit jerky unless the wheel was made of thosands of small polys?

I'll look at fertilizer. I thought it was just for ribbons and blades of grass?


Sorry about the double post I thought the other one didn't go through as my internet is being rubbish.


Pete B
peteb
08-11-2006, 03:20 PM
Thought I'd just say thanks for the link to Fertilizer it's done the job. I had to make sure I unwelded the area I wanted the tyre to start and finish otherwise it grew from both ends at the same time. But it works a treat, just what I wanted.





Pete
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