Smoke

[neilyb]

Check out: http://www.pelhamdesign.com/shaders/shaders_new.html

They are a series of shaders with which to make smoke and there is (somewhere) a scene of chimneys with smoke coming out!

[fxgogo]

Cool thanks, i wil give that a go tonight

[LucentDreams]

Well ther is always pyrocluster:rolleyes:

but I ssume you don't have the money or time to learn it.

I use Pelham's shaders a fair bit, especially smokeIT though not recently. I get great results with it and it is quite simple, but its all in the user, and you will need to increase your rays count which means slower rendering and a maximum of 100 rays.

[isome]

i vote for pyrocluster...its nice...somewhat of a slow render, but nice results...of course, you have to dish the cash for it...i lucked out, i got a comp upgrade and they threw in pyrocluster for free...

[fxgogo]

Wow you are lucky

[kiwi]

Excellent a C4D forum :)


I just bought Pyrocluster.......I like it a lot.It is going to take some time to learn though.



Stu.

[isome]

you might want to call maxon. they just called me yesterday (i missed the call) but they left a message about a sale on their plugins. something like buy 2 and get the third free. not a bad deal, if you can spring for it.

[kiwi]

Hey thanks but I am now tapped out,I just bought Mojoworld tonight,damn its incredible terrain and more generating soft,blew me right away,will be excellent for my C4D landscapes I have already made :) You could describe it as Terragen + only in 3d with animation and more :D


Mojoworld is made by the original designers of Bryce before it went to Corel.


Looks like it may have been used in Final Fantasy as well.


http://www.pandromeda.com/



Stu.

[isome]

that puppy looks sweet! did they really use it on FF?

here's a pyro thingy i made...just so you guys can see what its capable of....

http://home.earthlink.net/~daveserranojr/images/smoke_thing.jpg

i'm pumped about this forum, too. truth is i end up using cinema for everything except character animation. i'm following that thread closely. i'm hoping they make messiah workable with cinema.

[kiwi]

I am not positive whether they did or not,but there is a glowing testimonial from someone who is a VFX pro of some description who worked on FF......sorry my memory is crap :)



I love C4D as well.......very cool Pyrocluster shot there :thumbsup:



I will post some of my work shortly.......last time I tried to post a normal garden variety 80k jpg {first post} in the gallery I got a message saying my file was to large?....so anyway I thought oh goodie I have just asked a huge forum of people to comment on an image that is not actually there because it did not upload and now I look like a huge Dorkaramus incompetus :D .......but the back button saved me....hahahahaaaa whew :) .....oh I forgot to add there was much panicking also going on.....hahahaaaa.


I like to use C4D and Photoshop for final compositing.


Cheers

Stu.

[isome]

i'm really lookin' forward to everyone posting stuff....thanx for the complement on the shot, but i must confess it was done in about 10 minutes...pyrocluster and c4d did all the 'real' work...LOL...

[kiwi]

Ya but they couldnt do it without you on the end of the key board though eh :)



Stu.

[kiwi]

Well I just tried to post a normal 80k jpeg again aqnd the server still had a hissy :surprised



So here is a link for a forum I post some of my pics in :)


Everything is C4D minus a few bits of color adjustment.


http://photoshopgurus.info/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=383



Cheers

Stu.

[isome]

good point. ok, then i am a smoke-making god!!!!!! sorta.

lol...

[davedavidson]

ISOME: i have called maxom in the UK and they have no idea about this plugin sale, have any further details on this please as i would love to see the offer as i am after a few plugins my self
cheers
and also pyro is way cool, if you need smoke


dd out

[davedavidson]

ok
just check the date and it must be over hence why nobody knows about it
my loss
i read as new post and it was old news
and i sooo wanted new plugins

[isome]

sorry, guys. i'm here in the U.S. Maybe it's just over here?

[RickBarrett]

It's a US-only promo, as far as I know. If you buy two plugins (Dynamics, Pyro, Jenna, Shave (preorder), Exteriors, City Streets, Home Interiors) you can get one additional plugin free (the less expensive of the three). You can call our sales dept for the details.

I'm not sure what specials the UK (or Germany) might be running, you'd have to check with them.

- Rick

[davedavidson]

thanks rick
i have spokent to the suppliers over here and they said that they havent heard any thing on this.
they also said this was strange because if there is a sale over there there should be a sale over here. so i will wait to here what will happen next.

thanks for listing the plugins too


:)

[isome]

thanks for the clarification. is golem part of that as well?

[RickBarrett]

Originally posted by isome
thanks for the clarification. is golem part of that as well?

Yes and no. The "box" version (non-electronic) of Golem ran behind schedule and isn't quite available yet. However, I think the sales folks will let you purchase it as part of the deal and get the boxed material as soon as it's available. Should be ready in a week or so.

The delay was mostly in preparing content for the Zygote Humans-To-Go CD that's bundling with the full version. This is a CD with a bunch of Zygote human models pre-rigged for Golem. There's prefab poses and walk cycles as well. It's really an awesome addition to Golem.

- Rick

[LucentDreams]

So I can buy S&H and Golem and get Jenna free? Thats awesom but still over 500$ and I am canadian. Like I could ever dream.

I still haven't figured where my next meal will come from.

[RickBarrett]

Originally posted by Kaiskai
So I can buy S&H and Golem and get Jenna free? Thats awesom but still over 500$ and I am canadian. Like I could ever dream.

I still haven't figured where my next meal will come from.

Yep, those two would come to about $800, and you'd get Jenna ($195) for free. It's a good deal - especially if you've got a project you can use at least two of those on. But I can understand cash flow isn't always what we'd like it to be :annoyed:

FWIW, we run some sort of special every month, and they're usually pretty good. When some extra cash does come in, give your sales rep a call and see what kind of deal they can offer.

- Rick

[LucentDreams]

Raffi always keeps in touch and keeps me updated as does postforum. : ) Thanx Rick. Been to 3Dark in awhil??? Its almost dead, I don't go anymore, to many other forums all kickin so no time for it.

[RickBarrett]

Originally posted by Kaiskai
Been to 3Dark in awhil??? Its almost dead, I don't go anymore, to many other forums all kickin so no time for it.

Rafi keeps * everybody * updated :) I've even gotten a sales call from her - and I work in the next office.

Haven't been over to 3D ark in a long time. They keep me pretty busy over here and it's usually all I can do to keep up to date with the postforum and the cow. Don't even visit those much now that I'm spending time over here.

- Rick

[kiwi]

Kai maybe XL8 will be able to do everything those plugins can and save us some cash :)


Stu.

[LucentDreams]

not liekly, except maybe some CA thing I hope, though with all the pushing of this box set of Golem Rick mentioned I don't think there will be that much CA stuff coming our way now either, but ther should be some hints at least at SIG whther or not they anounce everything there should be hints.

[isome]

Does Rafi read these posts? LOL. That's too funny. She is certainly doing her job!

[RickBarrett]

Rafi only reads the forums when one of the tech guys tells her she's the topic of the day. Then she gets all excited and calls everyone she knows to tell them she's famous ;)

BTW - Rafi's got a cameo in bhodiNUT's Jenna. Her pic is used in an Alice example. All the sales girls are trying to be the first to get a plugin named after them.

- Rick

[isome]

ok, now, maxon sounds like the funnest place to work!

[That Adrian Guy]

Kaskai, are you skai on postforum?

You've helped me out a thousand times if so = )

[LucentDreams]

LOL I Still haven't seen any of her trolls yet. I have heard numerous times that she has a large collection or something.

I hope she's calling everyone to read this now.

[henry]

i don't get it! who's rafi! :shrug:

:wavey:

[isome]

she works for maxon. she is the contact person for most of us, so she calls us up with sales/special deals, etc every once in a while. so this thread has sort of become a Rafi 'homage'...:buttrock:

[henry]

oh cool :) i have a cracked copy so i might now receive any calls any time soon :wavey:

[l_farley13_l]

Yup got that rafi itch . . . Anyway Henry did you get my e-mail?

Oh And Rick how about an import/export feature supporting all feratures (bones/animation etc.) (I finally need it:)) And could Cinema support the "FBX plugin" ?

How about that new PS thing on the German site?

see you,

Farley13

[LucentDreams]

What's FBX?

As for the photoshop thing on the german site, its nothing new to you and me, not that I can read German, but its basically talking about the great support for adobe programs, They talk about the great multipass rendering into PSD's, Improting of Illustrator AI files, rendering directly into AE, but for some reason they don't metion Bodypaints integration with Photoshop PSDs

[l_farley13_l]

It's a universal format for Xsi, LW, Maya and Max. Everything is saved, all quads, all bones all uv's all textures. . . . you'd better ask polymath for more info, he's using it in a project of his.

Farley13

[bry]

Hi,

.fbx files are like a CA file format standard, they support almost everything used in CA. You can read more about it in Kaydara's website. FBX comes from Filmbox, their CA software, which will change its name to Motion Builder in release 4.

It would be good to have this format available for C4D, so you could bring in animations to use with C4D's render engine.

Bry

[l_farley13_l]

Could you send an E-mail to Kaydara (use the online thing info@Kaydara has been disabled) and Maxon on this for me ? They've already got my imput :) The more the Merrier!

see you,

Farley13

[anobrin]

here is one of my recent pyrocluster tests:buttrock:


http://66.70.166.29/promo/smokae2.mov

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