... to get explosions in Vue? If yes, is there a tutorial on how to do that, and if so where could i find it? Thanks Snowsorm

Do a search in the Vue free stuff for "explosion" and you will find this. Guitta

thanks :) I didnt notice it while i was going through the stuff earlier. Snowsorm

Well, is there a search engine somewhere? As the free stuff is pretty much populated, it could help. May be I'm a bit confused, but didn't saw any.

I'm red with shame, just after my post I discovered it! I have to stop "Chouchen" at breakfast...

I think I have found a slightly better way to use the Explosive Fern freebie mat. created by Joerg Weber. 1. Instead of applying this mat. file to the fern plant, instead create a sphere made up of about 20 fir trees, with the bases of the trunks meeting at the center of the sphere. 2. Next, go to display materials, and change the trunk and leaf materials to the explosive fern mat. 3. Group these trees, and call the group trees. 4. Now create a point light, placing it at the center of the trees group, giving it the following settings: Set the color as orange. The Softness as 0.10 The Power at 150 5. Go to the Lens Flare Editor, and change the following settings: Set overall Intensity at 100% Click off the Ring setting Under Random Streaks set: Intensity to 80% Amount to 400 Sharpness 100% 6. Go back to layers, and select both the trees group and the point light, and group them, calling this new group My Explosion 1. 7. Save this group as an object in your object folders for later use. I should say that for some reason, this thing takes quite a while to render. And you may need to adjust some of the point light settings depending on how large you make the trees group. Also, I used the fir tree that comes with Vue, but I have no doubt that you might get better results using another fir tree you import, say in 3ds format. Hope this was useful.

Just realized I made a typo in the above instructions. You should use about 36 trees, not 20. Sorry about that. :)

regaltwo: that's excellent lateral thinking!

I've been playing with some 2D apps and PhotoShop to produce lightning and explosion effects for use as alpha planes in Vue. Early examples, rendered in Vue, are above.

Those are way cool, BigG. I especially like the orangish one in the lower right corner. I've never been able to get a good explosion out of PhotoShop. You'd think someone somewhere would have created a good filter to do it, but if they have, I haven't seen it. I'm still working to refine the above. I think I might just make an explosive prop in Rhino to replace all those trees. We'll see.

When I've got the technique right, I'll post the alpha plane images and maybe a quick tutorial movie too. I've still to try out Cararra's Particle Emitter. So much to play with, so little time... :-)

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