Dotted Line with Explosion

[ChrisMarshall3d]

Hi,
I've posted a couple of examples of this compound on Vimeo, and had some requests for it to be shared, so here it is.
Here's a link to one of the posts

https://vimeo.com/76951979

The compound creates a dotted line on a curve, and at a particular dot number, an explosion of dots radiates out from the last dot. It's all fairly self explanatory. Just create an empty point cloud with a non-simulated ice tree, plug a curve into the compound. Any questions, just ask.

How do I share this as I'm being told the file is too big, though it's only 300kb.
I'll post it to the soft list anyway, but would be good to share here.


Cheers

Chris

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dotted_line_with_explode_1_private.zip

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Direct download link: here

[Hirazi Blue]

Follow the Upload instructions, if you want to get something uploaded here.
;)

[ChrisMarshall3d]

OK Thought I'd be able to just attach it, as it's not that big. So how is that then associated with my original post?

[ChrisMarshall3d]

OK I've submitted it as described.

[owei]

Hi!
Thanks for sharing, Chris!

For some reason the upload adress does not work anymore and I could not figure out, why...
So I´ll change it to a working one in the instructions!

cheers,
oli

[ChrisMarshall3d]

Thanks

[ChrisMarshall3d]

If anyone manages to do anything interesting with this or would like to give some feedback, please do so.
Cheers

Chris

[ChrisMarshall3d]

Hi,
I've sent a new version of this compound. Waiting for it to appear.

Thanks

Chris

[ChrisMarshall3d]

OK Here's a new version of the compound.
This includes some minor bug fixes, tweaks and a couple of additional features. When using frame count for animating the dots, there's a multiplier value to increase or decrease the dots per frame. Also, you can use a gradient for the colour. Any problems, let me know.

http://www.si-community.com/download/co ... icompoundp

Cheers

Chris

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[eben]

Thanks for sharing !

[aio]

Hello Chris I saw your video 'painting with ice'
https://vimeo.com/36448859

Did you make anything of it? seemed promising.
Have you thought of making something similar but with 3D geometry ? the direction would rely on facets orientation rather than contour, think hatching effect or engraving.

[ChrisMarshall3d]

Hi,
No I didn't take it any further. I had a number of different versions that produced alternative effects, but hadn't thought of taking it to 3d. It was based on an input image, so I'm not sure exactly how a 3d version would work. I guess it could, just based on surface angles to light sources etc? I'll have a think.

Cheers

[aio]

It's something i've been thinking from time to time.
When you look at engraving drawings for example it's obvious the hand shading is following the shapes of the geometry but not quite.
And when the camera moves this 'texture' remains detached from the object it's not completely attached to the object as a uv texture.
Something like a 2.5D texture.
All npr renderers are sticking the texures on the objects or onto the screen. It's something in between.
I tried to do something in post and bend the normals and apply the textures but I suck too much at maths to do that.