Thats fantastic!
:)
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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
Of Alan Fregtman
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:32 PM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Shattering glass?
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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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