I'm right now looking at Maya Unlimited's awesome fluid effects. Anyway, I know its a little over my price range but I just like seeing how far Alias|Wavefront is going to be just like the real world.

http://www.aliaswavefront.com/en/product...ects.shtml

*GROAN* whishs he had 2 grand . Guess I'll stick to meshwork ,Bryce and Amapi. *bursts out crying*

Those look sooo realistic. Too bad I'm only the whole price short of buying it

Quote:Originally posted by Joseph Duchesne
*GROAN* whishs he had 2 grand . Guess I'll stick to meshwork ,Bryce and Amapi. *bursts out crying*

You can simulate fluids in Bryce by animating terrain and using metaballs for splashes.

I know. Bryce is -cool-. Did you see the Nuclear Nova logo protype I made in it?

Yup. That logo's pretty awesome.

I want to redo my logo in it to. You know you can do shifting desert sands using animated terrains to?

Oh wait. I'm thinking of the wrong logo. Which are you talking about (I didn't see it on your site).

For shifting sands, animate the terrain with the timeline in the Terrain Editor.

I never saw it. Do you still have it? :?:

WHOA! I just did some googling for Bryce water tutorials and I found like 15. Most are good.

*digs into the archives* Ahh:

http://www.staronesw.com/NN-Final.jpg
http://www.staronesw.com/NuclearNova2.jpg

Nice eh?

Wow JD those are awesome!

*bows* * looks as as he can*

Thanks. The only problem is the render time. ~14 hours on normal AA on my dads G4 733! Ouch I was trying to render it on my PM 7600/132 first though I set it going over night and woke up to find it like 5% done! I wonder why Jake didn't use it? maybe it was too flashy?

14 hrs. Whoa. How high did you AA? What were all your render settings. I usually render with premium fx AA.

Super cool render. (two thumbs up)

*Wishes he got 3 thumbs up then notices that AJ probably has only 2*
The world was in volumetrics(set in sky lab), the stars slowed it down and that's 10 volumetric spheres with their quality set on 75%. It took W-A-Y longer than I thought it would but it only took 2 hours to make. (1 hour makeing it and one hour waiting for the blasted preview to load on my 7600/132 )