Re: disintegrating sand

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

Looks interesting. Did someone ever used it? I wonder if it gives you 
enough control over the cracks.

Tim Leydecker wrote:
> There is a plug-in for Maya, Blastcode http://www.blastcode.com/
>
> You may have luck using that (or something alike for XSI) to generate
> chunks of the sandcastle breaking off, then take those chunks, smooth
> and/or relax them while they´re emitting themselves into particleblobs
> and have those dissolve into extinction?
>
> Never used blastcode sofar...
>
> tim
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "kim aldis" <kim(at)aldis.org.uk>
> To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 8:03 PM
> Subject: RE: disintegrating sand
>
>
> > You might get some mileage out of the smooth or relax deform but in 
> > the end
> > you'll probably end up using a mixture of shape, lattice and cage. Or
> > something.
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > > Behalf Of Scott C. Lange
> > > Sent: 03 July 2006 18:41
> > > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > Subject: RE: disintegrating sand
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On
> > > Behalf Of Sascha Robitzki
> > > Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 10:26 AM
> > > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > > Subject: Re: disintegrating sand
> > >
> > > 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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