stoopid request of the day 2004-05-25 - By Per Edwards
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There's a free script to do this called "XSI Shatter" you'll find it in the
online tools area, under generators (modeling). Just apply the shatter,
then you'll have to work out how ot animate the resulting parts. Of course
you'll also have to hide/unhide at the appropriate moment the bits as
needed.
> there was this geezer called Ptolemy, who had this 'mad' notion that the
> solar system
> was a concentric series of rotating crystal spheres, each one having a
> planet 'trapped' half in and half outside
> and thus went the motion of the planets.....
>
> now when some other arstraumerer saw a comet traveling BETWEEN the spheres,
> he realized Ptolemy was a fool, and told him
> in no uncertain terms, thus 'shattering' Ptolemy's 'crystal spheres'
> (can you see where this is going....?)
>
> so 600 years later, at the very peak of human inteligence and invention, we
> can put a man on the moon (allegedly)
> we can send robot probes to within 100m of mars, we can predict the weather
> (?) and locate ourselves to within a couple
> of feet using GPS...... however.....
>
> we can't take a simple sphere in a 3d package and blow it up!
>
> did i miss something?
>
> please help, i am close to commiting client-icide
>
> HISTORY:
>
> double skinned sphere (ie it has 'thickness')
> a comet has to crash thru this sphere
> that is all
> BTW if it's any consolation, tried this in Maya and it did a pizz poor job
> too!
>
> a
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