Day 32


Yeap, new trick board on the right with 52mm STF wheels . Cruising board is the one with the 60mm ATF wheels and the tokidoki pirata design on the left.

Yeap,

Double awesome.

Before I proceed to any other part of the project plan like applying atmospheric fog surrounding the terrain, setting up bullet spray particles or improving vehicle particle sprite emissions...

I shall spend today watching and analysing intermediate pyro lectures.

Like the previous intro to pyro post, I'll post notes of what I've learnt for anyone interested.

Here I go!

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Intermediate Pyro


Anyone who has visited my previous project blog Dragon Flood might have come across me mentioning these expressions before.


Scale X Y Z
bbox("../xform_center", D_YSIZE)/3

Center X Y Z
centroid("../xform_center", D_Y) - or + bbox("../xform_center", D_YSIZE)/3

Once again credits go to Mr Ron for teaching me these expressions.

This is a post which talks about the expressions used: http://lghsh202.blogspot.com/2011/05/day-47-48-updating-in-progress.html

Well it's probably quite obvious to most artists but I'll just say it anyway. These expressions can be used to normalize and centralize bounding boxes, including fluid and gas containers.

They're useful so that when you need to change the sop path the simulation is reading data from, you don't need to adjust the size of the container.

That probably can be solved using the [gas resize field + sopsolver] method which resizes the container based on the scale of the running simulation too.

Sopgeo Node: Reads data from sop path output node. Must have data name just like gas resize field node.

Details View: Spreadsheet is good for viewing pyro data in a list. Can be used to check if SOPs data has been pulled into DOPs.

To Be Continued...