Burning Fuse

[HowardM]

the easy way is make a long tube, the make a morph of it all curled or curvy.
then simply make a black/white clipmap that you can move along an axis to remove the fuse, after you morph it of course.
you can use a null as a reference for the clipmap, which in turn can become an emitter....which can do 2 fun things.
a. sparks or a flame that follows the clipmap
b. ashes that fall to the ground

have fun!

[js33]

Hi Chris,

The way I would do it is just make two fuses one a straight line and the other morphed into your final shape. Then put an image map thats half black and half white on the straight fuse to use as a clip map to animate it dissolving away. Make the start of your fuse at 0,0,0 in modeler to make adjusting the clip map easier.
Also your clip map image can be small like 640 x 480 then you can resize it on the X axis to make it longer if needed. A few quick test renders will tell you where to place the clipmap texture then just key it moving on the x axis. Then you could make a motion path from your morph target and have a PFX emiter follow that path to add sparks and fire and what not.

This is kind of an old way of doing it. Maybe theres a plugin out there that makes it easier now.

Cheers,
JS

[xchrisx]

thanks guys i will look into the clip map idea.



-chris

[Willax]

Hey Chris you may want to check out this site:

http://www.btinternet.com/%7Eyog/tut_listx.htm

There is a tutorial on burning fuses there

[suture]

I've done that tut before seems to work well.

[yog]

Fame at last :beer:

TBH - I'm surprised that site's still going, haven't been with that ISP for years.

[suture]

haha yeah Yog, that was your 15 seconds, better take a screenshot :)

Just joking :beer:

[jeremyhardin]

if you want an emmitter to follow the fuse exactly. you could use "Traceline"

basically you make a string of two point polys in the same shape as your fuse (morphs and all)

when you apply traceline, you specify the points per second of it's tracing. you also have the ability to bake an emmitter to follow the line exactly. pretty handy, if that's what you're going for.

traceline.ls is here:
http://f23.aaacafe.ne.jp/~fisjunk/plugin/plugin.php?platform=1&code=1&type=Layout%2FDisplacement&version=7#f

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