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gameSedit
08-04-2009, 09:41 PM
hi everyone,
here is a shot i did in maya using a script i wrote recently... well what it basically does is, it creates particle grid according to the scale of a selected plane, then it takes the color from the image texture applied onto the plane and gets displaced according to the greyscale value of the image texture applied, creating a 3d look..

here are the links
sorry for the video quality.. i tried all the settings but nothing worked.. but have also put up a download link below for the original quality

vimeo (http://vimeo.com/5927738)

for original video quality pls download
MP4 file - 49MB, 00:00:13
http://www.mediafire.com/?d1ytmymudnk (http://www.mediafire.com/?d1ytmymudnk)

and here are some snap shots
http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/1893/shot1sim.jpg

and here are the images used to create the displacement
http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/1666/images2cyn.jpg

Planning to put this in my demo reel.. so crits and comments are most welcomed..cheers
hjmendoza
08-06-2009, 11:41 AM
cool! one question, this works with the translateY or use normals to get the direction? I mean, you can use a sphere or just planes.
gameSedit
08-06-2009, 05:58 PM
thanks a lot.. right now it works only with the plane .. but in another 2 or 3 days i think i should be done with it taking other shapes too.. actually just figured it out day before yesterday how to achieve it.. cheers
hjmendoza
08-06-2009, 08:45 PM
good, keep rockin dude.
Cheers
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