Re: Experimenting With Smoke... 2005-06-08 - By Glen Allen
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True enough Claudia - my Pong game disappeared years ago! :) Used to
play the old Telstar at my school's after hours programme.
Cheers!
Glen
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From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On Behalf
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Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 12:56 AM
To: Carrara@(protected)
Subject: [Carrara] Re: Experimenting With Smoke...
Actually, I think I have you even beat with that, Glen. I STILL have an
old Bentley (full name?) video arcade system (a non-brand). All it
consisted of were rectangle pixels (probably 1 x 6) that were used for
"paddles" and a 1 x 1 pixel for the "ball" with just 4 games: ping pong,
tennnis, hockey, and squashball(?). And we were the only kids on the
block that had it, too. :)
Hey, and remember the Magnavox Odyssey system?
<http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey.htm> And what about the Coleco
Telstar? <http://www.pong-story.com/coleco.htm>
Boy, talk about a trip down memory lane. :)
Cheers.
Claudia
"Selocic"
- 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
--- In Carrara@(protected), "Glen Allen" <gallen8969@(protected)> wrote:
> Hey Claudia,
>
> I've got ya beat there... I've got an Atari 400 in my basement - it
> used PM (Player-Missile) Graphics. :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Glen
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: Carrara@(protected) [mailto:Carrara@(protected)] On
> Behalf Of ccoles_avengers
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 9:36 PM
> To: Carrara@(protected)
> Subject: [Carrara] Re: Experimenting With Smoke...
>
>
> Thanks for the "sprite" explanation. My recollection of sprites were
> also with games, some reminiscent of ATARI ST 1040 games [ ooops,
> showing my age, there. :) ]. But it's good to hear you mention the
> Amiga. Brings back memories. :)
>
> Cheers.
>
> Claudia
> "Selocic"
> - 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
>
> --- In Carrara@(protected), "elsiget" <elsiget@(protected)> wrote:
> > If you have the need for placing a texture and have that texture
> > face
> > the camera, like a billboard or a plane with point at behaviour,
> > but you need it for particles, that's what the plug-in is for...
> > A sprite is a bitmap that is rendered as a 2d object, but it can
have
> > a distance from the camera, and a placement in a 3d environment (if
> > it's a sprite in 3d, 2d sprites are usually just bitmaps, like those
> > rendered in games.
> > I'm not going to cover hardware sprites and how one could with only
8
> > hardware sprites make really cool effects on the Amiga for
instance.).
> >
> > So if you need particles to act like billboards/planes w/point-at
> > behaviour that's basically what it does (point at modifier for each
> > individual particle, at least if its name is anywhere near
describing
> > its function, and Mike's usually pretty good at descriptive names).
> >
> > --- In Carrara@(protected), "ccoles_avengers"
> > <ccoles_shado@(protected)>
> > wrote:
> > > Oooops, my bad...I used an unfriendly file name format:
> > >
> > > 1) Smoke Effect Using Sprite Plugin
> > >
> >
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carrara/files/Selocic/smoke_w_floor%28d
> iv
> x%29.avi>
> > >
> > > 2) Smoke Effect Without Plugin
> > >
> >
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carrara/files/Selocic/smoke_w_floor_no_
> sp
> rites%28d\
> > > ivx%29.avi>
> > >
> > > Hopefully that willwork now.
> > >
> > > Cheers.
> > >
> > > Claudia
> > > "Selocic"
> > > - 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In Carrara@(protected), "ccoles_avengers"
> > > <ccoles_shado@(protected)>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi All,
> > > >
> > > > Just trying to get a grasp on some of Michael's cool plugins. I
> > > > am experimenting with his Sprite plugin in trying to create a
> > > > smoke effect. Now please note, I am really not that familiar
with
>
> > > > the particle system so I don't know if this is the exact way
> > > > that
> smoke is
> > > > supposed to be achieved in Carrara, but I experimented with
> > > > creating smoke with and without Mike's plugin, and the only
> > > > difference I saw was that the one that did not use the sprite
> > > > plugin was a bit darker (sometimes desireable) than the one
using
> > > > the plugin. Otherwise, I couldn't really tell the difference.
> > > >
> > > > Could anyone help out here and tell me exactly "what" I should
> > > > be
> > > > seeing that would be different with adding the Sprite plugin? I
> guess
> > > > I am missing the concept here of the polygons needing to "face"
> > > > the camera in this instance.
> > > >
> > > > 1) Smoke Effect Using Sprite Plugin
> > > >
> > >
> >
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carrara/files/Selocic/smoke_w_floor(div
> x)
> .avi>
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > 2) Smoke Effect Without Plugin
> > > >
> > >
> >
> <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Carrara/files/Selocic/smoke_w_floor_no_
> sp
> rites(divx).avi>
> > > >
> > > > Oh, BTW, these clips were generated *before* installing the
> > > > latest
>
> > > > Sprite Plugin update.
> > > >
> > > > Cheers.
> > > >
> > > > Claudia
> > > > "Selocic"
> > > > - 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
>
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