Re: Shattering glass?

["Morten Bartholdy" <xsi(at)colorshopvfx.dk>]

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I need to make 100+ pieces of irregular 
broken curved glass pieces for highres still work, so I would appreciate 
some level of automatization - I guess we might be better off doing this 
with Blastcode in Maya :(

Morten Bartholdy
3D & VFX Artist



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alan Fregtman" <alan.fregtman(at)gmail.com>
To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2008 3:32 AM
Subject: Re: Shattering glass?


> Or online and free and awesome:
> http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/
>
>
> On Jan 31, 2008 10:53 AM, Juan Brockhaus <juanb(at)the-mill.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > haven't done shattered glass (as far as I remember...), but this little
> > software helped me a few times to convert bitmaps to curves:
> >
> > www.wissenuk.com/products/traceline.htm
> >
> > Juan
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Joe Laffey wrote:
> > > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Robert Chapman wrote:
> > >
> > >> Had to do this yesterday, got the director to provide a 'shatter' 
> > >> image and
> > >> spent about half an hour tracing it with the add polygon edge tool. 
> > >> Once
> > >> complete its pretty easy to loop through each poly, extract and 
> > >> extrude for
> > >> thickness. granted this particular glass shatter wasnt that 
> > >> complicated, for
> > >> something more complex I would automate by using the 'trace'  feature 
> > >> in
> > >> illustrator/flash of a suitable bitmap shatter and output an .ai file 
> > >> for
> > >> further seperating and  extruding.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > I did a glass shatter with a custom pattern by drawing the lines in
> > > Illustrator, creating the pattern. Then in Illustrator I used the
> > > Pathfinder features to give the lines thickness (convert them to 
> > > polygons,
> > > not strokes). Then still in Illustrator I booleaned those out of a
> > > rectangle. This gave me the basic shape with fine cracks (make the 
> > > lines
> > > real thin). I think I did the dynamics for that one in LW, but it would 
> > > be
> > > about the same in XSI.
> > >
> > >
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