Fooling around with soft body dynamics.

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# 1 31-01-2003 , 06:45 PM

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This is really my first attempt at using softbodies. It's just simple object moving through a liquid like surface.

193KB quicktime movie.

https://www.fiu.edu/~xcharles/watertest.MOV

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# 2 31-01-2003 , 08:14 PM

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Pretty cool man!

Any chance of passing along how you did it?

Israel "Izzy" Long
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# 3 31-01-2003 , 08:33 PM

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Sweet bud i really have to start playing around with that...

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# 4 31-01-2003 , 09:22 PM

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Almost looks like you parented several air and turbulance fields to the bottom of the stick. How close am I?

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# 5 31-01-2003 , 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by Darkware
Almost looks like you parented several air and turbulance fields to the bottom of the stick. How close am I?

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Glad you guys like it, I'm still not getting the exact results that I want though. The scene only has two fields. A very small turbulence field, and an air field that does about 95% of the movement that you see.

Just for you guys I'll create a detailed tutorial and paste the link soon. It's pretty simply, believe it or not but what you see in the movie took me about 5 minutes to create.

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# 6 31-01-2003 , 10:20 PM

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Cool man! Good work for 5 minutes user added image

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# 7 01-02-2003 , 07:02 PM

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I finally got the look I wanted. Like in reality, the water in front of the object pops up a bit, and the water behind the object collapses, ripples, and twirls around.

This one is a bit bigger, about 347KB

https://www.fiu.edu/~xcharles/watertest2.mov

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