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Subject: Metaballs de-mystified.

xenic101 opened this issue on Apr 23, 2006 · 11 posts
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xenic101 ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 2:29 AM · edited Fri, 22 November 2024 at 11:39 AM

Someone asked about it over at that other place. Since I answered it there, I have to answer it here to keep the universe in balance. Hopefully the minor detail that no one here asked, will be out weighed by the fact that I got the pictures to show full size so you don't have to click on them to read the text.

Mahray ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:11 AM

Err... What pictures?

Come visit us at RenderGods.

Ignore the shooty dog thing.

tjohn ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:20 AM

Uh yeah. Just 2 little red x's.

This is not my "second childhood". I'm not finished with the first one yet.

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

"I'd like to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather....not screaming in terror like the passengers on his bus." - Jack Handy

xenic101 ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:25 AM

file_339419.jpg

huh? There were pictures there when I left...

 

xenic101 ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:26 AM · edited Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:26 AM

file_339420.jpg

can't even cheat it's so broke.

Mahray ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:32 AM · edited Sun, 23 April 2006 at 4:33 AM

I don't even get red crosses...

Edit - There now.

Come visit us at RenderGods.

Ignore the shooty dog thing.

PJF ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 6:53 AM

Thanks xenic101. That second one is very interesting, as it specifies what many have learned instinctively about falloff.

I agree about the usefulness of user adjustable settings for metaballs in Bryce6. I guess that metaballs, like so many other things in Bryce5 (trees, TA, etc) had to be stopped at a certain level of development in order to fit in the release schedule.

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Ang25 ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 10:29 AM

huh? there's things like strength and falloff with metaballs?
Ang runs off to check this in Bryce

Thanks for the explainations Xenic.

pakled ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 1:33 PM

gad..next thing they'll have magnets in Bryce..;)

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)

Gog ( ) posted Sun, 23 April 2006 at 5:25 PM

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Sweet notes in the second image, don't forget folks, if you want to strengthen an individual meta you can duplicate it. In the attached image, I've emphasized the blue meta ball by just duplicating it, can be damn useful when you're got a load of metas in a scene

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UVDan ( ) posted Mon, 24 April 2006 at 6:22 AM
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Thanks for the info.

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