emPolygonizer - metaballs for SOFTIMAGE

owei · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 16:35

Hi there..!

This is a small OGL-screencapture of the upcoming emPolygonizer by Eric Mootz

emPolygonizer is versatile tool for polygonizing particles, nulls and polymeshes in a metaball-like way...

This scene contains 15k particles animated with SPH by Costa/Kot. The resulting polymesh is using the particle-color as vertex color...

Stay tuned for further details..!

cheers,
oliver

MOD-edit: the plugin announced here has been released, look for the release-post here or go directly to the source here - HB

Hirazi Blue · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 16:54

Wow, that looks very useful! $\:D/$

Letterbox · **Joined:** 17 Jun 2009, 14:49 **Posts:** 142

Hi,

That is another great item Eric, well done...

Questions:
Will it be proper metaballs that can absorb into themselves, best example i can think of would be a lava lamp.
Does it need to be a pointcloud or can it just be a geo item?
Can one change the "resolution of the metaball" like a sub-d surface specifically at render time .. eg low res view, hi-res render.

Looking forward to seeing more on this.

Cheers
Terry

Mootzoid · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 18:29

@Hi Letterbox

the answers to your questions are: yes, yes and yes :-)

Oliver and I are going to post a few more OGL captures of some of the demo scenes in maybe an hour or so. Nothing fancy, but it will help to easily understand and see what emPolygonizer can do.

Eric

owei · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 19:41

hey...here are the promised little demos...

...this OGL capture shows four animated nulls used as centers for the metaballs..

...this OGL capture shows a sticky-particle scene using emPolygonizer to polygonize the particles

..this OGL capture shows an other demo-scene using emPolygonizer with an ICE Point Cloud and its point colors...

...this OGL capture shows emPolygonizer transforming ordinary polymeshes into metaballs

hope you like it

cheers,
oliver&eric

Hirazi Blue · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 20:03

In what stage of development is this, i.e. when will it be released? $:-\$
Any ideas on pricing yet (yes, I'm Dutch!

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Mootzoid · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 20:14

I cannot make any promises, but emPolygonizer will be released some time during the next two weeks.
About its pricing I also cannot be specific (yes, I'm half-French

), but it will be less costy than similar existing plug-ins. And that's a promise!

Hirazi Blue · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 20:18

Mootzoid wrote:

but it will be less costy than similar existing plug-ins. And that's a promise!

You're obviously not refering to the very old free metaball-solution by motionblur.it, I take it...

(And that's a joke - I'm half Austrian $:-\$ , but that obviously makes no sense in this context

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ardworx · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 20:24

that looks intresting

will there be a demo version? (yes, i am half german, half swiss and half belgian =))

)
greets,
ardworx

owei · **Posted:** 02 Jul 2009, 20:38

@ardworx

....yes, there will be a demo-version...we are discussing about the restrictions right now

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