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Animation: Stuntplane
I'm creating an animation of toy aeroplanes that are gonna be in a small aerobatics display (Think red arrows but with bi-planes). There's gonna be very little in the way of keyframed animation it's all gonna be done by taking data from a flocking system I have written and then using MEL to bring in that data, this is all complete so I am now working on the model (I would post the animation but I cant get premier to export it properly sorry!)
So here is the first model of the biplane I want to use (I think it's still a little poly heavy at the moment but I will work on that) I've been working on this for about 3 hours.
Comments and crits are most welcome
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Here's the unsmoothed version
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looks nice
*note* stunt biplanes have 2 rungs on the top with a strap so the pilot or someone can stand up there and not fall
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lol that's for wingwalking I think! lol that would be funny if I could get that in there!!*note* stunt biplanes have 2 rungs on the top with a strap so the pilot or someone can stand up there and not fall
Vectorman: I have written a flocking system in c++ (to find out more about flocking go to: Craig Reynolds Page
Basically this will spit out a text file of x,y,z translations and x,y,z rotations. I then load this text file into maya (Via MEL) and traverse through it and set up instances of geometry that pick up the positions and rotations and set keyframes for them it's as "simple" as that!
The MEL to do the initial loading up of the file is easy(ish) but getting MEL to set up the shaders etc for the smoke trails that the planes leave has been a pain in the butt! You cant imagine how long it took to get maya to set up a "grayscale ramp" using MEL it's two button clicks using the GUI but scripting it was a whole other story!When I'm finished I mite post the script and the data files (or even write a tute!
) so people can see how it was done. I've got loads to do but it's coming along nicely!Thanks for the feedback keep it coming guys!
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I shortened the plane length and I have added in most of the other details. I'm trying to keep the model as light as poss (in terms of geometry) so I can have loads of them flying around. I will post a test render of the animation later tonite once I get home
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It's still in the preliminary stages but I'd really like some feedback.
Cheers
Alan
Ps Is the video ok for everyone else? I'm getting really jerky playback for some reason!
https://www.alanwoods.co.uk/files/geometryTest.zip
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Oh i just checked out what it had rendered and it looked rubbish!! I'l have to re-start the render!
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Anyways got bored so here is a render with some gratuitous motion blur!
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What do you guys think?
Also when I subdivide it the uvs seem to get all messed up, the staight lines appear to have "waves" in them. Any ideas? I'm Very new to sub divs
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