Does anyone know some way to explode an object in vue..? In my case its the pumpkin from the object library.... husse G.

Explode it into what?

Into peices.....

a way is of course to use the scatter function but i dont want the pieces to look like "mini pumpkins", I want it more like pieces or fragments... husse

No way in Vue. Vue is a peaceful program, no explosions! :-)) The only way is to use stones with the same texture and a sort of exchange in an animation. Pumpkin till time one - make it "jump" to somewhere else in one frame - then the "pieces" aka stones jump into the camera light and are animated very quickly to fly away! I don't see another way. Again, no particle system in Vue. But hope dies last!

Thanks! Really hope they make a scaterize funktion soon... husse. G

I had to do this to a rock when i did a one and a half minute animation for a university a couple years agao now dont know if you can do it with the pupkin, unless you make one and make it into about 20 seperate pieces and then import it to vue as a 3ds Now comes the part you need to do,you have to select each piece then assign a key movement, ie select the piece add say 1 sec the drag that piece way of somewere,then do all that for each piece adding key frames for each piece you want to fly apart. it will take a long time to set up but it does work and looks ok from an explosion point of view. i would let you all see the anims but they are so big is size i cant send then to web as i dotn have a place for them anyway thats the way i did that so hope it helps regards seeklight

Thanks seeklight! Actually im trying that method right now as we speak!(my lunch break..) The problem is that i havent found a good way to devide the pumpkin into pieces... How did you acomplish this? husse G

A similar solution to seeklight's without needing to use an external application to make the object would be to use Vue's boolean operations. Not a particularly elegant solution since each piece of the pumpkin would need to be a whole pumpkin with a boolean diff that hides the rest of the pumpkin. Once you have sufficient pieces assemble them and then blow it up. Cheers Mark

yes that would work mark but i did it via amapi i made an arch and then made the arch into about 25 pieces if i remeber right,then i imported the arch as a 3ds then assigned all the key frames regards seeklight

Thats a great suggestion Mark! Havent really gotten into bolean stuff yet but i will certanly try that method... Thanks! husse

Just to experiment, I used a particle system to explode the pumpkin I made for sale (in the Ghosts) package. Here's the result. It makes an ugly mess. However, if you would like this for any reason (doubtful), I converted this "mess" into a .vob object. Just send me an e-mail, and I'll send it back to you in reply.

Attached Link: http://www.ethervizion.com/post/explode_meteor_mpg.zip

This image is a frame from the linked animation.

Is this what you're looking for? I don't even remember how I did it! so, so long ago...(but I do remember it's all in Vue...which I haven't used in over a year)

Here's the vue file:
http://www.ethervizion.com/post/explode_meteor_vue.zip

Good luck!

-Karl

Thanks a bunch guys!!! What would i do without you.... I imported an pumpkin in carrara and mad an explosion and saved it as a 3ds file... it worked very well actually... husse

I haven't recieved my copy of Vue yet so I don't know if this works, but I found this file. www.3dmenagerie.com/goodies/3d/explosions.zip Let me know if it works.