scene 1 & Week 4

SCENE 1

So after pondering and realising that the colours (black and white) were meant to be in blocks, and seeing how another student did in their presentation on week 4.

So I turned this:

 Into this:­

Did the displacement technique again and it worked:

The strength is up to 15.

Week 4

We first had the presentation and I realised how behind we are compared to other groups.

Then we sat through the particle systems tutorial, where the lecturer went through the basics.

Other examples:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT2yNRc6YJQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oxFMHMV95Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdQannsUGVA&feature=related

With the lecturer’s help I managed to produce the picture above.

Then we had a brief group meeting where we just talked about the work we’ve got to do.  Everyone was present.

Then I went back to playing about with the particle systems and trying to figure out what each option does:

NOTE: It’s only a 30 frame burst, which means if you play it shoots particles for 30 frames.

Modifier tab and then scroll down to ‘saved presets’ and select hose  then click on ‘load/save preset’.

Then scroll up and open particle system.

Emit start: means where do you want the particle start emitting and as you can tell from the picture below I’ve set it at -10

Emit stop: means where you want the particle to stop.  NOTE: these are all frames (so need to find out how long the fire is going to last for and plan accordingly).

Display until: is for how long you want your particles to display for, so even though in the picture below the i stopped emitting at 50fps it will still display for another 20 frames.

Life: how long the particles are going to live for, i.e. a smaller flame/smoke is going to need a smaller number

Variation: (ask tutor)

Then there is the particle size:

The above picture’s settings are at:

If I decrease the size to 10 it would render out like:

This is useful as I can create one type of flame, duplicate and change the settings to whatever suits a particular scene. 

Variation: not noticing anything different when changing the settings.  (ask tutor)

Grow for: how many frames the particle grows for

Fade for: how many frames the particles fades

Particle types:

If I have already modelled something and i want the particle system to emit that, then i would check instanced geometry and click on pick object, and check on mesh.