Particle Flow Discussion

#961

2 more pic’s

now I’m off to enjoy the weekend “VODKA”:wink:

#962

bangs head on desk well … it seems this DVD just doesn’t want to come out! I’ll save the boring details… next week sometime it’ll be out now. It’s been out of my hands for the last few weeks whilst the ui was built and well… I’m just as anxious as I’m sure some of you guys are for it to come out - so I really wish it had popped out this week. So aside from my frustrations about it - it’s all looking fantastic and hopefully will be out next week.
Aside from that though this weekend I’ll chuck up a lil suprise for people to sink their teeth into whilst they’re waiting :slight_smile:

Dell very nice pics man

Thrasher - all the discreet content will be unique as it’s more stuff I’ve built for previous films and kind of just reitterating on the techniques used for that stuff. But the main emphysis is on Afterburn, alongside with how to make the most of it through pflow. It should be a cool talk, I’m going to be a bit of a whore this year as I’m pushing a lot of different tricks/educational content out over siggraph, although everything is quite unique. Was hoping we could do a talk at discreets booth on Blade, but now with the release date being pushed back 'til december we can’t show anything unfortunately.

#963

@allan - must be cool to work on high profile films, i bet when they r released you just sit back and think … i did that :smiley:
i’m lookin forward to ure dvd i think it’ll be pretty sweet :wink:

#964

honestly I’m pissed, I never get to see them !
First few were crap films which I passed up on
I was keen to see paycheck, but it wasn’t out in Aus by the time it came out, and I flew to LA where it had ‘just’ finished. Then I had cast and crew ticket to scooby doo, but I arrived late due to bad directions and LA traffic so they wouldn’t let me in. I’m NOT going to see cinderella story (we did the intro) I just checked blade 3, release date here in LA is december 10, I fly back to Aus for xmas December 9 (I know) and it doesn’t come out there 'til jan 6 and I fly back to LA jan 2, so it’ll probably have come and gone by that stage :slight_smile:
Although hopefully there’ll be a cast and crew session…
But basically aside from cast and crew screenings I always miss getting to see the movie - but yeah it’s nice when you’re at a pub at the bar and a tv commercial comes on… or a music video, and you’re like “hey I did that… back. to drinking now”
:slight_smile:

Digital Dimensions cg supervisor’s bachelor party tongiht, we’re renting a 18 person hummer full of booze, disco lights, playstations. if I don’t make it back alive, it’s been great to participate in this forum :wink:

#965

Hello all, I have a question about PFlow in my 3ds max 6 scene.

This is the scoop - I have two bipeds in a scene and I have created low-poly proxy meshes that are linked to their biped’s bones. I wanted to use a PFlow system to emit a few particles and do a Collison test on about 30 geometry proxy-models. I created the character’s proxy-model myself with low segmented GeoSpheres and molded them to shape the character’s final Physique skin.

I have an emitter in front of him and it sends simple sphere out. I want it to do a collision test on the proxy models I made, about 15 objects for all his bones. But I have follow out sadly that the UDeflector particle deflector can only pick one mesh object at a time!

Any suggestions to avoid making 30 of them and picking each object separately? Thanks.

PS - Allan: I can’t wait for your DVD either!

#966

How about making a group out of all the proxy meshes, and using the group for the UDeflector?

Oleg B.

#967

You could group your proxies, open the group and Link Constrain or Position Constraint its members to their respective bone. Then pick the closed group as your deflector.

Hope this helps,
Boa

#968

Thanks Boa, that is a very good idea, I will remember that.

OlegB: I tried that too, but something strange was going on with the group idea, which I thought’d work also.

So what I ended up doing instead was use a Position Object operator, and chose all the proxy meshes I made, and then chose Select Faces as the emissions location.

So carefully I picked the mesh faces that’d appear best in camera shot, and have in by doing that made just the character’s edges vent particles. The affect is a fast fire emission using a basic Shape Facing w/ ~60K to 90K of particles, for a thick fire. The fire on the characters is caused from a nuke-strong fireball blast (http://www.areagrey.com/other/ab_fblast.jpg), so the flame on them had to strech and be blown by the wind.

#969

Alan,

Regarding those discreet classes at Siggraph… Are they seminars that the attendees just sit and listen and watch or are they more interactive working at computer at the same time type classes. I am hoping for the later.

Thanks
Tim

#970

Yeah basically it’s a class but no computers, just like with any other siggraph class - the speakers are up there showing how to do cool things, but obviously not waiting for the audience to do it step by step, as we’d probably get through maybe one tutorial if that were the case :slight_smile: (purely as things have to be paced a lot more slower).

Also organized with turbo squid to be giving out a license of afterburn, and there’ll be other raffle stuff going on too…

#971

Sounds fun Allan hopefully I will be able to make it.

BTW any idea when the DVD will be out this week :buttrock:

#972

Did you survive the party Alan…:beer:

Btw, when will you update your site? Sorry for being such a pain in the ass… heheh

#973

Yes, I have a very solid idea of when it’ll be out, I’m just not going to say anything until it’s out cause I’m cursed or something :slight_smile:
Will have a few cool scene files being thrown up tonight - projects that didn’t make it onto the DVD, but show a lot of cool stuff etc.

RE: Webpage will be up soon - I hate saying I’m going to do this and that as at the moment things are just insane and I’m about to take on another contract which will for the next month and a bit have me working 20 hour days so that really sucks.

Eitherway after sig with the exception of this contract, things will be dying down a lot which will give me a lot more free time… although wether I choose to spend that at my PC is yet to be seen :wink:

Party went well, 18 seater hummer filled with booze and porno DVD’s and a very roudy crowd. Only one of the animators got arrested, so pretty boring night :slight_smile: I’m looking forward to blur’s siggraph party, discreet’s fronting a lot of cash for that, should be interesting… Crystal Method is performing there

#974

Hehehehhe only one arrested if it was you who was arrest i would be laughing right now. :stuck_out_tongue:

Nice to hear that you survive the night, by the way why was he arrested, no belt on… hahahah

The stuff that you will upload will be at alanmackay.com? I need something to do tonight so i will be checking it from time to time.

Cheers
Zag

#975

I’ll post it here, won’t post it on my site as I doubt I’ll make any changes until the complete overhall, but will try and work on that tonight alongside having to get a lot of cool images/videos out for pflow tools release…

#976

Hey Allan,

I finally made the purchase on the DVD but I have one quick question. Does the DVD come with the scene files from each exercises because they never mentioned it on their description. Also, as far as I can recall I though there was some sort of CS, Maxscript & Pflow all intergrated together on your DVD. Maybe I’m wrong but I though you mentioned it earlier.

Well anyway I’m very anxious on the arrival of the DVD
Cheers Turbosquid finally!!!

#977

I just checked and I don’t see the long awaited PFlow training DVD. I see this one:
http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/228387/Action/FullPreview

But it was released back in April, so I don’t think it’s Mr. McKay’s?

Jeff

#978

Hey Jeff,

That’s impossible. I just purchased the DVD two hours ago.

http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/index.cfm/ID/236836

here is the link.

#979

Excellent! Thanks for the link, I tried searching for particle, PFlow, and even McKay, but nothing turned up…strange. I’ll go ahead and place my order as well. Thanks again.

Jeff

#980

Hi Alan,
Turbosquid takes $35 for shipping to Germany. I recently purchased the MAXScript 101 DVD. The shipping rate for that one was $3,20 …
Do you think it is possible that you ask turbosquid to offer a lower shipping rate? I don’t need the DVD to be here next day …

Boa