Custom metaballs

[HammerChugoh]

yea, I am living and working in LA.

nice to see technical stuff on this forum :>
And for DD, they are hiring like crazy now as most of their top people left to imageworks and other houses.... even Alan Kapler is no longer there.

Hey Hammer, are u still in LA?

[Wolf]

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[ZU]

problem fiixed la..
Wolf ~ try upload again la ~

[stantang]

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[h2o]

都系讀番d數學先

[CraZ3D]

要學都真系唔易~~

[Wolf]

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[johngalliano]

Hello, wolf, there is one line I don't quite understand in the above expression. Why the N has to be perturbed by ($V1*$W1 + $V2*$W2 +V3*$W3)/$W ? Could you give a brief explanation?
I should have tested the expression b4 asking, but I don't have maya at hand right now and too eager to understand the expression.

[Wolf]

http://www.geisswerks.com/ryan/BLOBS/blobs.html

See the miscellaneous section.

[underbuffer]

hi! 我系max user.
在3dsmax可以簡單地做到metalball。
這個方法唔系shading、唔雖要計數、應該可以滿足到一般用家
可能好多人已知這個方法、只系想同大家分享一o下！

[stantang]

underbuffer, maya has different ways to create metaball surface as well, this shader Wolf wrote will not create the actual surface (polygon or NURBS or sub-d), the metaball is created during the render process. It's a kind of surface shader which commonly used in PRman.

Wolf, correct me if I'm not explain it clearly.

[web_sdas]

有點不明之處想請教
maya有blobby type的particle
為何要做一個metaball去做到blobby的效果呢
是blobby本身有何不足之處?
所想自己寫一個shader去彌補其不足之處嗎?
又或metaball是想應用在其他地方而設計的?
請多多指點, thx a lot!!

[stantang]

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[Wolf]

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[h2o]

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