sand clock animation

[Cinemike]

I'd use deforming geometry and map a radially animated texture upon in to simlate the downrunning sand. A good old Sunburst Shader with the right parameters might work wonders here.

The sand stream itself could be similated with TP.

CU
Michael

[Joseppi]

slc,

Depending on what version of 4D you have, Thinking Particles, if you have it, or if you have an older version, there was a free plugin called "Fizz" that had balls pour into a glass jar.

You could parhaps model most of the sand pile with geometry, and apply a texture, then just have Fizz (or TP) pour a layer on top of that, to keep your particle count down. Unless you plan on having a long shot of the hour glass filling from empty to full! (some art house performance 3D piece... hourglass... in real time...) : )

Maybe the "dusting" of particles on top would work, and would could get a text, bump mapped on the geometry.

Joe

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