[Q] Best way to do this animation?

[gaggle]

Off the top of my head I'm thinking dynamics. Build the letter with the boxes, assign weights and stuff to them via Reactor, and blow them apart by a force. Play the sequence backwards, and hey presto, they form an A. Would that work?

That, or I'm thinking particles. But you may need a 3rd party plugin to get particles to form to a specific pattern properly and such (Sandblaster I think one was called, or Thinking Particles could do it as well, etc.)

[shoutaway]

thx gaggle. Do you know any good reference or tutorial for particles ?

I have tried PArray..well it doesn't really do what I want to do.

cheers

[mouj]

Howdy !

Somehow gaggle i think is right, particles would be the way to go, but i don't know if you'd be able to do so using standard particles systems in Max.
Maybe to achieve the effect you'd need to create it backwards ? Start by placing your cubes as an "A" and then make them fly around, and either reverse your frames upon rendering or later on.
Actually thinking of it this way i wonder if the simpliest way would not be to actually start from the "A", and use splines and path controllers to animate the cubes..

mouj

[shoutaway]

Hi, this (http://www.shoutaway.com/3d/A_particles.avi) is what I've done so far.
I used Particle studio. that killed my machine many times so i couldn't really tested it properly.
http://www.shoutaway.com/3d/A_particles.avi
Anyone knows better way to do this?

cheers

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