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- At 05:29 PM 1/25/96 -0500, you wrote:
- >I'm workign on a school project for a teacher at teh
- >university. We need to make a violent snow storm which almost
- >obscures the background..eventually the storm subsides to reveal
- >the background...Can sparks accomplish this type of effect?
- >We're looking for lots of swirling paterns to suggest the
- >turbulence of teh storm..I was thinking of using mass amounts of
- >particles via lightwave..but perhaps sparks can do it quicker
- >and more easily?
- >
- >
- >
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- You could also try using a huge particle cloud. Keyframe it to move past the
- camera and apply a fractal displacement map with World Coordinates. You'll
- have to use Motion Blur, since the release version of LW doesn't blur
- particles that move via displacement, only those moving via a shift in the
- object's position.
-
- Hope this helps.
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- SGB
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- S.G. Bailey
- Senior Lightwave Animator
- Will Vinton Studios
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