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Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: untouchable on April 11, 2002, 11:58:18 pm

(http://www.3dap.com/hlp/hosted/da/extra/exp.gif) :D:D

Just thought you would like to know ;)

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Kamikaze on April 12, 2002, 12:11:12 am

That's pretty nifty, I must say :D

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Post by: vadar_1 on April 12, 2002, 12:11:39 am

The birth of a Deimos.... the epic drama of breaking out of ones shell......

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Post by: Ryx on April 12, 2002, 12:11:39 am

Don't forget to hide the Deimos ;)

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Post by: CP5670 on April 12, 2002, 01:04:34 am

Looks cool. :D

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Post by: Gortef on April 12, 2002, 03:02:57 am

:cool::yes:

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Post by: Fineus on April 12, 2002, 03:25:16 am

It's a girl!

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Post by: Nico on April 12, 2002, 06:15:44 am

bah, it's easy :D

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Post by: Ulundel on April 12, 2002, 07:44:28 am

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Originally posted by venom2506
bah, it's easy :D

Ya, it is. :nod:

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Styxx on April 12, 2002, 07:59:37 am

Heh, funny. :D

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Post by: Corsair on April 12, 2002, 08:45:18 am

That is so cool! how do you do it?

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Post by: Ulundel on April 12, 2002, 08:46:38 am

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Originally posted by Corsair
That is so cool! how do you do it?

Particles. At least I'll do those things with it.

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Styxx on April 12, 2002, 08:53:24 am

Looks like a simple face-based object explosion to me... :)'

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Post by: Darkage on April 12, 2002, 09:29:31 am

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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve


Particles. At least I'll do those things with it.

This one isn't useing any particles....I belevie that 3DS max has bomb button to do such things. Not sure though

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Post by: Nico on April 12, 2002, 09:35:06 am

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Originally posted by Ten of Twelve


Particles. At least I'll do those things with it.

Darkage is right, that's the bomb tool. you link it to an object, you can set the size of the chunks, the strenght of the explosion, speed of rotation of the debris and stuff like that, and depending on where the bomb is placed, the thing will blow up accordingly: in that case, the bomb is right in the middle of the ship.

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Styxx on April 12, 2002, 09:47:15 am

But if you use a particle array with a particle bomb and some more super sprays to add smaller particles, you can get better results. ;)

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Ulundel on April 12, 2002, 09:48:33 am

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Originally posted by Styxx
But if you use a particle array with a particle bomb and some more super sprays to add smaller particles, you can get better results. ;)

That's what I'm sain' here.

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Post by: Setekh on April 12, 2002, 10:22:03 am

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Originally posted by darkage
This one isn't useing any particles....I belevie that 3DS max has bomb button to do such things. Not sure though

Bomb button, eh? I gotta get me one of those. :D

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Post by: an0n on April 12, 2002, 10:41:20 am

Pfff. That's nothing. I can do ablative armour.......well, I will be able to as soon as I can get the damn video-post to work right.

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Post by: Nico on April 12, 2002, 11:17:27 am

mmh? so you can't now. so shut up ;7

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Post by: an0n on April 12, 2002, 11:32:33 am

I can but it looks sub-par........Actually if I can get ahold of a copy of Flash I could make some armour pretty easily.

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Styxx on April 12, 2002, 11:33:50 am

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Originally posted by Setekh
Bomb button, eh? I gotta get me one of those. :D

It's there. Somewhere. Search for it.

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Post by: Nico on April 12, 2002, 11:51:27 am

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Originally posted by Styxx


It's there. Somewhere. Search for it.

for spire I think he means ( nah, i won't call it spirit. No. No, don't insist, I say no. Spire sounds better. No )

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: wEvil on April 12, 2002, 11:58:02 am

its actually a Particle Array, a very flexible object-based particle emitter.

not a patch on sandblaster or Thinking Paricles...or even matterwaves for that matter.

The biggest problem being the chunks look all triangly...if you want a really good explosion you'll have to model the chunks yourself :(

Or failing that do what I do....loadsa glow, lodas lensflare and so much motion blur you cant tell what anything is.

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Post by: Nico on April 12, 2002, 11:59:59 am

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Originally posted by wEvil
its actually a Particle Array, a very flexible object-based particle emitter.

not a patch on sandblaster or Thinking Paricles...or even matterwaves for that matter.

The biggest problem being the chunks look all triangly...if you want a really good explosion you'll have to model the chunks yourself :(

Or failing that do what I do....loadsa glow, lodas lensflare and so much motion blur you cant tell what anything is.

you can also tesselate a lot, with edge tension of 0, give the chunks a big value, and watch your computer suffer :p

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: an0n on April 12, 2002, 12:00:08 pm

Seamlessly Pertinent Image Rendering Equipment
Seemingly Plausible Underling Recall Tool
Someone Please Enter Rebeccas Mou.....err...scratch that one.
Supposedly Helpful Image Tool
Should I Like Leaving You

I think I lost my point after about the fifth word.

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: wEvil on April 12, 2002, 12:14:59 pm

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Originally posted by venom2506


you can also tesselate a lot, with edge tension of 0, give the chunks a big value, and watch your computer suffer :p

well...mine wouldnt' ;)

But seriously, the problem with tesselate and all systems based on random wilds guesses..oops...heuristics is that they generate 'orrible triangly or rectangly shapes which dont look like they've been ripped apart by a 50 kiloton explosion.

So you're left with trying to trick everyone into thinking something else.  Either way..tesselating is possibly worse because OK you can now do that jagged outline, but because its made out of rectangles it will look like a really rubbish 3D bitmap :(

You can't win.

Title: Lookie what I can do!
Post by: Nico on April 12, 2002, 12:22:39 pm

well, giving the mesh a noise modifier when it blows up could make the job. you'll have little bits of undetermined shape flying all over the place :) you can also melt or anything like that.

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Post by: Styxx on April 12, 2002, 12:25:09 pm

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Originally posted by an0n
Supposedly Helpful Image Tool

Lol! :lol: :lol:

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Post by: Setekh on April 13, 2002, 06:52:48 am

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Originally posted by an0n
Seamlessly Pertinent Image Rendering Equipment
Seemingly Plausible Underling Recall Tool
Someone Please Enter Rebeccas Mou.....err...scratch that one.
Supposedly Helpful Image Tool
Should I Like Leaving You

I think I lost my point after about the fifth word.

:p

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Post by: Zeronet on April 13, 2002, 06:51:19 pm

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Originally posted by venom2506
bah, it's easy :D

But pretty slow on my modemn :(