 | | | stoopid request of the day | stoopid request of the day 2004-05-25 - By kim aldis
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I think the only way to do this is to hand build the fragments flat,
extrude, wrap to sphere then animate out using a script that times the start
and direction based on distance from a centre.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Robert Moodie
> Sent: 25 May 2004 18:20
> To: XSI@(protected)
> Subject: Re: stoopid request of the day
>
> here's the tech. Now where's the bright spark who's gonna
> knock this up...
>
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/animation/Areas/Fracture/fracture.html
>
>
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "adrian" <adrian@(protected)>
> To: <XSI@(protected)>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 12:58 PM
> Subject: RE: stoopid request of the day
>
>
> > walked that road already, shatter has SEVERE problems owing to the
> > fact
> that
> > it relies on booleans, and the resulting 'chunks' are a
> bit...well...chunky!
> >
> > most of the time it fails though!
> > a
> >
> > <<<<< adrian wyer - Head of 3D - MillTv >>>>>
> > <<<<<www.photonmap.com>>>>>>>>
> >
> >
> >
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: owner-xsi@(protected) [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)]On
> > Behalf Of Per Edwards
> > Sent: 25 May 2004 17:17
> > To: XSI@(protected)
> > Subject: Re: stoopid request of the day
> >
> >
> > 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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