http://www.realflowforum.com unofficial Realflow-Forum en http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36280#36280 36280@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Hi allAs promised here is a break down of what we did to make the path follow project work.The internal pressure of the emitter was lowered to 0,1 in order to compress the stream and avoid stray particles, which previously originated from when 2 streams got too close to each other and on the inside of tight bends.Tom adjusted the path to even out the high variance in local speed.In the crowdflow Plugin we activated the speed force which will try to keep the particles at a certain speed. The strength was set to 10 and the Path follow strength also to 10. The speed strength works well with the path follow force in some cases, this project being such a case We played with the social forces, but chose not to activate them, as they didn't improve the overall flow of the stream.The frameRange was adjusted to cover the entire length of the path.It worked out well -Cheers Ole Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:37:58 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36190#36190 36190@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: IoSim wrote:shaun_michael wrote:I'm kinda shooting in the dark really without the scene and unfortunately I'm not available tomorrow to take a look.  Have you contacted IoSim directly, via the forum, he's very active here - drop him a PM?Shaun Hi ShaunI'm on it Just got the scene from Tom and will have a look at it.-and will get back with some public advice as usual.Cheers Ole Good work Ole.Shaun Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:05:27 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36187#36187 36187@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: shaun_michael wrote:I'm kinda shooting in the dark really without the scene and unfortunately I'm not available tomorrow to take a look.  Have you contacted IoSim directly, via the forum, he's very active here - drop him a PM?Shaun Hi ShaunI'm on it Just got the scene from Tom and will have a look at it.-and will get back with some public advice as usual.Cheers Ole Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:24:47 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36185#36185 36185@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Thanks I will contact him, it was around frame 187. Not sure about those things you talked about, I can check but im not sure exactly how to tweak these.http://www.4shared.com/file/DqmXwslG/CrowdTest.html Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:14:10 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36182#36182 36182@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Not sure how to upload a scene? Oh, and you wont be able to upload a scene here, just upload it to a file sharing site and post a link here.Shaun Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:30:29 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36181#36181 36181@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Which frame do the particles start veering from the path of Null02?  Is the path from object frame range high enough, and I assume you've checked that the path follower strength and path connect radius still cover the particles by the time they reach that part of the path?I'm kinda shooting in the dark really without the scene and unfortunately I'm not available tomorrow to take a look.  Have you contacted IoSim directly, via the forum, he's very active here - drop him a PM?Shaun Thu, 26 Aug 2010 23:29:40 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36180#36180 36180@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Hi ShaunNot sure how to upload a scene? Here is a screen shot of the problem. http://yfrog.com/n0problemscenejThanks fa1lure, im not familiar with spline wrap, is this a Maya function? I was rendering in Maya anyway. Im still open to ideas though I am very short on time.Could I poss email you the scene? Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:29:21 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36179#36179 36179@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: If you do follow the RF route, the scene file would be very useful indeed.Shaun Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:04:56 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36177#36177 36177@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Hey.I feel like you can accomplish this effect with a spline wrap in any 3d app with the same shader.It's a whole different story if you are set on creating it in realflow.Not trying to discourage or stray you away. I just feel you can get the same results much faster than dealing with RF.Good luck. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:55:47 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36175#36175 36175@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Thanks ShaunJust bare with me, will get some screenshots/info up shortly. Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:11:16 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36174#36174 36174@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: Can you fill us in with some more detail on your scene please?  Screen shots etc are always useful.Shaun Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:36:12 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36173#36173 36173@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: please someone, anyone??? Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:32:04 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36166#36166 36166@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Liquid Mercury Sim Message: My latest project usin RF 5 and crowdflow. Please let me know if you can see any improvements. Towards the end of my sims the particles just give up on the path can anyone tell me why this is? They grind to a halt and just emit off elsewhere!Click mehttp://vimeo.com/14447888Thanks in advance Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:42:16 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=36159#36159 36159@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: Raindrop Variations Message: How to do that?Could you give the parameter? Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:04:05 +0200 http://www.realflowforum.com/view_topic.php?pid=35830#35830 35830@http://www.realflowforum.com Topic: scripted melting Message: Waow, that's really nice. Can you share this script ?Thanks! Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:37:46 +0200