Hasta La Motion!

Just wanted to let everyone know Sphere VFX have just released their new 2 day Mari training course. This is not online training such as fxphd’s new Mari course but on-site training.

The course covers:

Customizing the View
Using Shortcuts
Configuring Brushes
Clone Stamping
Painting through an Image or Gradient
Controlling the way Mari applies Paint to your Model
Transforming and Warping Paint
Towing Paint around
Copying and Pasting Paint
Editing Paint on Channels
Exporting and Importing Textures
Storing Resources using Shelves
Selecting Items
Grouping Palette Items
Working with Patches
Configuring the User Interface
Managing Images in Mari
Managing Colors in Mari
Channels
Shaders
Filtering Images and Paint
Projectors
Multiple Objects
Layers in Mari
Painting Animated Objects
Extending Mari

For more information check out www.spherevfx.com

Best regards,

Matt

The problem I am having is that I end up with a lot of extra info due to number of fields involved. Does anyone know how to use VOPs to strip out only the density field and use that to generate a mesh? I have unsuccessfully tried iso-offset, iso-surface and volume convert

I have included an example file so you can see what the hell I’m talking about

cheers

I basically got dust particles coming off the ground under a moving object so I have some particles behind, to the side and in front of the moving object. During rendertime, I’m using the moving object as a matte for the particles just so I dont have to render stuff that is not going to appear in the final render and I’m also setting the motion blur settings I used in maya for the moving object so my object matte has the same motion blur so everything lays down nicely later in nuke.

I noticed that the motion blurred object matte on the particles render does not match the motion blurred object once I composite it. Settings are exactly the same as in mental ray , but it just isn’t lining up..tried different setting settings and testing the comp and still not getting something decent….I’m sure it is an issue of the motion blur algorithm on the renderers….any ideas how this problem can be tackled? BTW…this was my VFX 401 challenge entry that I never finished haha….thought I might as well get it done.

We are going to explore some of the different methods of creating scenes ready for RBD Fractured Simulations, we will explore some interesting nodes like the " For each node" , Partition node, RBD glue object, at the same time different options for creation of groups based on attributes, using nodes for user defined selections or simply random, among other things.

1.-Breaking the wall with VOP’S
Intro to fractured objects
Deforming geometry VOPSOP
Fixing problems
Making Groups
Old school expression
What happened?
Little imperfections
Finally broken
2.- Breaking a vase with paint and For each
Creating the vase
Painting with a brush
Grouping
Breaking the vase
3.- Breaking a pot defining pieces with geometry
Modeling our pot
Creating pieces
Defining groups
Fractured Object
RBD Glue Object
Switching between the two objects

4.-The Break Tool
Understanding the Break Tool
Breaking just a portion of the object
5.-Bricks with class
Creating the wall
Breaking the wall
Details
6.-The Shatter Tool
Understanding the Shatter Tool
Solving problems

Here is a free tutorial
http://cardanfx.net/english/titles/f…struction.html

Thank you all for your attention and support I really apreciate it you are the ones that are making this project grow.