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Cannot Shatter

For some reasons all of the objects in my scene will not shatter. I've tried deleting the history, but that didn't help. I tried creating a...

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by ragecgi

09-11-2003|11:08 PM

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lightning double transform

i am trying to use lightning dynamics in my animation and want to parent it to the gun but have tried many methods with different grouping, using as...

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by tudders

18-12-2013|08:21 AM

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Paint Effects

So I'm using Paint Effects to try these gaseous cloud like things, and I like how they look (pretty much). However, they only seem to render when...

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by ragecgi

20-08-2003|10:52 PM

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Expression help

OK gang, this is what I'm trying to do... I have a particle system of instanced geometry, and I want each instance to face the camera similar to...

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by kbrown

14-11-2003|08:26 AM

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Cloth Collision Object

I know you guys are probably sick to death of these Cloth Questions, well, here's another. I made a cloth object to fit around my character. ...

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by aa2147339

21-06-2005|02:45 AM

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Software Rendered Missile Trail.

Can i get a nice and realistic missile trail with the software rendering? I looked on the internet but didn't find anything intersting...

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by thewebagent

12-10-2005|01:49 PM

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active and passive bodies

hi everyone, i'm looking for some help with regards to active and passive bodies. the sequence goes as such, i wanted a ball falling every 48 frames...

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by conceptual

10-08-2004|07:13 PM

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Dynamic Animation ...

Not sure where to post this ... here or in the Animation forum. So here goes. I have an object following (attached to) a motion path. I want to add...

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by Xander-0

18-06-2009|01:38 AM

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cloud castle

I am unsure if this is possible but I am attempting to create a castle that is formed of clouds. I am working on the basic model for the castle as a...

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by BadG3r

17-11-2007|01:50 AM

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Hardware Rendering to Adobe Premiere

Hello all, I'm not sure if this is the right category for this question...i just did a hardware render on dynamics in Alpha Channel Red Source and...

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by brian_ellebracht

19-12-2002|08:25 PM

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Ocean Waves...

im new to dynamics and i recently learned how to create an ocean in a scene, however the project im working on requires me to have a wave build up...

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by ragecgi

17-02-2005|09:48 PM

Replies: 3

blinking sprites

I have been fiddling with some sprites, and when I hardware render them, they seem to be blinking, which is not the intension. For the moment I'm all...

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by ragecgi

30-01-2003|05:42 AM

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Are my models too complex for dynamics?

Got another problem once again. :D I'm modelling a set of block with letters on them for a flash movie. So instead of using texturing I modelled...

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by frippz

07-04-2005|05:28 PM

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Pulldownit wood fracture

PDI wood fracture Rnd https://vimeo.com/72546241

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by minkumis

17-08-2013|03:42 PM

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scaling particle system to match global scene scale

Hi, I followed a tutorial on creating a missile trail with particles . It worked fine, but now I have to import it into my scene which is on a much...

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by discostu

22-04-2006|09:34 PM

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Boat wakes

Hello, Anyone knows how to make boat wakes of an object floating on an ocean ? Thanks

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by ragecgi

13-02-2003|08:45 PM

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even distribution of particles

Is there a way to evenly distribute partcles onto a nurbs surface using goal U and goal V. I want to creat an emitter that shoots out 100 particles...

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by Dann

07-08-2006|05:18 PM

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Hair constraints

Hi there, I'm doing a little simulation of a rope attached to an object. So far so good: Using hair I attached the follicle to the object, and made...

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by phonk

30-10-2008|05:51 PM

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water splashes etc...

6 months ago i saw a xara commercial where they didnt showed the car, it was completely transparent, they splashed water over it and sugested the...

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by ragecgi

08-11-2003|03:49 AM

Replies: 13

Problem With Particles and Rigid Bodys

Hi Guys Hope you can help me out, I'm trying to put an expolsion in a cube so that the particles "Blow up" the cube by interaction. So far...

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by gster123

11-10-2005|01:24 PM

Replies: 5

Laser Welding Project

Hey all, I'm working on a project for class, and I've decided to get really creative. I'm designing a short animation to emulate some of the...

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by Velusion

10-11-2005|02:45 AM

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making cable faling - how to avoid the cable intersect it self?

I'm making an elevator cable snap and falling down the shaft. Now, I extruded a circle curve (cable body) along a straigt curve (cable path), while...

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by ragecgi

26-09-2005|09:59 PM

Replies: 4

Frost vapor o_O

Hello all, new guy here. I really look forward to putting some of my things up for some critique and taking advantage of some of the awesome...

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