thx alot for approving my skeleton friend there.
i worked my butt off over that thing, and itās really quite simple. if you want the dynamic grounp itās very close to the dynamic_frozen_example.max that comes with TP. just many tweaks here and there.
Tree for Skeleton
the particles are created back in PFlow, due to iām not that good with TP yet, i would post the tree for pFlow but itās pretty big.
ah i see! yeah i know that āfrozenā file from the TP scenes. So welcome to my world 
iĀ“m quite good at flow iĀ“d say but with TP iĀ“m only okayā¦so i really feel with you atm the thing is i donĀ“t have a personal license for TP so i canĀ“t play with it at home 
really looking foreward to see your entry + logged 
!
kind regards
anselm
thank you sir, yeah TP was a hell of a buy, 1400 bucks or something like that and iām wondering how come i donāt have any money to buy that workstation iāve always wanted. (the student liscense is a lot cheaper)
anyways, iām working on the particle fire right now, iām seriously considering simulating it rather than using particles, but i dunno. pFlow is holding up pretty okay, weāll see, iāll get a test out here ASAP
iĀ“ll buy TP by the day the v3 is outā¦a few month to wait but thatĀ“s okay for me i know itĀ“ll be worth it 
then iĀ“ll have TP, Box#1 & #3ā¦ i will not see the sun for ages
yeah get your stuff going.no stress! you have like 2 month left?
1 month and a few days, itās due march 30th, y arnāt you entering? you got some really impressive stuff, you gonna kick our butts
anyways, testing new links
Bones:
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this one is the particle fire test i did.
Link
ah yeah i remember! forgot how close we are to our luck
first of all thanks for the flowers the thing is i have to work weĀ“re in production atm. i donĀ“t have to work this week but i have to get my ducks in a row you knowā¦2-3 one day-only-freelance assignments ahead. plans on visiting siggraph and stuffā¦maybe iĀ“ll help out here and there or join in as a flashmob action when i have the time
damn iĀ“d love to join but it wouldnĀ“t be fair for the team if i have to quit during the process because work calls you knowā¦
concerning your bone fraggs: maybe get rid of the minor jittering towards the end. itĀ“s always a hassle with smaller pieces i know 
concerning the fire iĀ“s say good job! pretty much allanĀ“s approach, right? if you have glu at hand give the pWrapper a try. Sam already got great results with that technique. well and fume is perfect for the job of cause IF availableā¦but hey! i do a lot of debris stuff with simplest flow setups onlyā¦
kind regards
anselm
yeah basically allanās way, heās da man!! yeah the small pieces seem doesnāt wanna be frozen, and i donāt think i need to use Fume, but i sure can use it but itās gonna take so long to render, and apparently i donāt really need too realistic a fire.
and a think the little jittering should be okay, itās gonna be hiden by all the other particles and it is possibly out of the shot anyways.
anyways, duty calls, but it sure is nice having you around. anyways, iām gonna keep working, if this turns out to be quite nice, iām gonna put it in my demo reel
a particle fire test iām not sure about this being the final version, but it is kinda acceptable
Great work, I really like it!
And about the fire, try also the metaballs method with fallof shader. Itās great, and the results are pretty realistics and useful when you havenāt a fluid simulator. Lookat my example (Houdini, not max)
nice job! Deko-LT has a nice āblade creatureā scene on his site!
the thing with the delete mesh modifier ans soft selection always is the abrupt deletion i wish there would be a smoother wayā¦
kind regards
anselm
am i like the only one working here?
anyways, update, hereās the particle flow i used on the sphere now on the human, tweaked it a little, tell me what you guys think
Download Link
btw, Marth 24th 2007 is shutdown day, iām shutting down my computer for a whole 24 hours (i hope i can do it, i usually canāt live without my computer for more than an hour), will you do the same?
ah nice!
fire: Flow, Guy: TP ? seems pretty mich that i would have taken the same road
kind regards
anselm
the guy is just a mesh with shader that makes him disappear, notice the shadow of the guy is still there, and yes, al pFlow, i only used TP for the bones, due to iām not too good at TP ,yet
yeah i ment the āinteriorā with āguyā
so itĀ“s pretty much DekoĀ“s approach PLUS some falling ash really like it! this is going to be ubercool!
cheers
anselm
cool site, been there before, bookmarked now
anyways, i just wanna say i got accepted to the Microsoft Windows Home Server Private beta, which is awesome, so iāll be testing out the new window home server
and i didnāt not copy Dekoās stuff
please donĀ“t see my comment like that. wasnĀ“t ment so
congrats on the beta!
cheers
anselm
hey, donāt worry, thatās just me trying to be funny and failed miserably
right now iām just tweaking out the color and some more little stuff. and iām planing out the shot, itās gonna be cool (hopefully).
cool oneā¦
only thing from my ill point of view (no serious I got a cold) would be the ashes (black) particles are there to early. They should be more like at the end.
Or maybe just the medication kicks in.
Greets.
a skeleton crowd simulation test
kinda related to our project but not really, we are gonna do crowd simulation tho, a bit.
have fun