 | | | Cobwebs | Cobwebs 2004-07-12 - By Raffaele "ThE_JacO" Fragapane
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I have had my fair share of problems and it wasn't half as complex
(character struggling in it) as what you are trying to do.
One word on a problem I smashed my face on when doing it with textures:
The filaments' width will be stretching, while in reality they only stretch
along their length.
In the end I had to do a ridiculous amount of grunt work to crate a spring
network set of nulls and drawing curves between them, then had smaller
patches with the smoky texture of the smallest bits being kept in tension
and relaxed by that.
In v4 you could have a much easier living then I had using cloth, extracting
a network of edges in curves and patching that.
Good luck Andre, for me that has been a really painful week.
~Raffaele Fragapane
~Freelance Technical Animator & TD
~Senior TA @ Peerless Camera
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From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of
Andre DeAngelis
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 10:11 PM
To: XSI@(protected)
Subject: Cobwebs
Hi all texturing geniuses out there
I have a shot that is goign to require cobwebs draping over a character (a
la Indiana Jones). I figure I would drape a grid over the object and use
cloth to relax it into place but the texturing/shading side of things could
get a little tricky.
Anyone had any expericen with this effect? I am concerned that using
trasnparency maps could force us to use very high res images to overcome
antialising. Pehaps a clever shader someone has come up with?
AD
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