Re: Electricity Samples and Tutorial is Posted Up Now

Equinox wrote:

Reminds me of this tutorial on electric arcs from a while ago - might help you with some of the presets?

http://www.spinquad.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=37553#post37553

very cool effect  :)

Equinox


Hey!, that's classic!
And I mean more classic then that it's cool looking, but that was my next steps with experimenting,
was to jump from Lights over to actual Objects and use those instead for the electrical effects.
now, I know that it will work and I won't have to waste any time finding that part out, and can just
move on with my experiments of finding different cool effects that I can make from this style of technique.
These two are practically the same things, so it's weird when you think it up on your own
and see someone else was thinking the same good thoughts!
Too cool!
I think what sets mine different though, is that since it is for lights, at least you can get some other
methods out of it, if not from the actual fractal texturing, as I go into a little about use Noise channels
and Envelopes to create some neat things (animation wise) with the Cone Angles and other similar
things for the Lights themselves and those don't have anything to do with the lighting effect,
but the way the lighting expands and contracts and such to help with sizing and like that.
I think both of these will work quite nicely together and this is looking more fun then I originally thought it would :)

Thank you VERY much for that link!
And of course, Thanx a ton Steve (if you're around, which I dought) for that awesome little sample.
I didn't download it yet, but that's OK, I get the basics of what he did without having to look into it to closely.

See, what brought all this on for me in the first place, was a medical job
that fell through, but it called for some electricity at the end of a device.

This is when I started messin around, even though the job was no more, I was still curious.
And my goal was to try out both Lights and then actual Geometry (objects) to make the effect.
Or maybe combine both of them or something?
Think snaking object or something similar with electricity moving on it.
Could look quite cool>
And now seeing Steve's nice little work there, it make me think of some other neat things you could do,
like how about taking away the object altogether and just having the electricity parts all animated and then also
being animated with a SplineControl or bones or something else like warpping it or deforming it in some mannor or whatever?
Could really look awesome just seeing ONLY the electrical effect!?
Or modify it some, and pull off another version/method of the fire that burns a logo, tutorial.
Wished I could find that link?
It may have been partly made with Mirage though?

I'm sending that link to my animation bud, since this
was his request that got me started in the first place.
I think he'll instantly fall inlove with that cool effect on those letter.

Anyway, thanx again.....................md :)
P.S> I want to see what any of you out there come up with, if you make any of either of these things?



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