Re: disintegrating sand

[Sascha Robitzki <s.robitzki(at)trixter.de>]

The storyboard changed. At the moment a jet of water is hitting only one 
sand tower which gets a classical crack and disintegrates like semi-dank 
sand. I think I can get away with a sort of ice bash scenario for the 
beginning. Unfortunately the consistence of the sand lumps is not solid...

Scott C. Lange wrote:
> Sascha,
> Just curious but what is the scenario? Is it waves hitting the castle or is
> the sand castle under still water like in a tank? Sounds like the real sell
> would be in the clumps animating off if Marc's solution is right for the
> scenario.
> -Scott
>
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> Sascha Robitzki
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> Maya and Houdini would be also available.
>
> Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote:
>   
> > Nice challenge!! Especially with XSI's current particle integration.
> > Yikes!
> >
> > First I'd look for reference or better, take a trip to the beach and
> > spend an afternoon with the kids building castles and film them.
> >
> > I'd first animate the castle basic geometry melting.
> > I'd probably try to use animated emit maps that behaves like accelerated
> > corrosion from bottom to top.
> > I'd animate lumps of textured sand geometry slowly falling down.
> > Might be a good test for Michele's metaballs, altought I am not sure it
> > handles texturing properly(?).
> >
> > Good luck and make sure we see some test!
> > MAC
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> > Of Sascha Robitzki
> > Sent: July 3, 2006 9:37 AM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: disintegrating sand
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to simulate a sand castle disintegrating in water.
> >
> > How would you animate the disintegrating sand?
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