fun with 50,000 particles

nathans · Post by **nathans** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 4:14 am

just messing around in realflow one night after work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc22rhL2DY8
***make sure you watch in high quality

Jim M · Post by **Jim M** » Sat Dec 06, 2008 8:46 pm

That's pretty cool pal. Very graphic designery...

daantjuh44 · Post by **daantjuh44** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 8:19 pm

Thats awesome !

Do you want to share on how you achieved the effect ?

nathans · Post by **nathans** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:31 pm

it was pretty easy I set up some sd objects in max:
started with two geospheres offset an equal amount and extruded all the faces, then collapsed the new faces so i had spikey balls like a maces, with just a little bit of space between them.
next step was to animate them so they were moving together like gears, and then attached to a null to add a spin in two axis

the finished animation rotated around the world center where I added an attractor in realflow and surrounded this with sphere emitters that i enabled the fill object option and let it play. (lots of sticky on the .sd and a high viscosity and surface tension on the fluid)

animation on the attractor magnitude matched to the rotations of the .sd gave it the time warp feeling.