I've been delving in to the insanity that is "3d explosions".   One of the attributes I'd like to duplicate from a real explosing is smoking debris being thrown from the explosion at various speeds.

Ive created the debris with the particle emitter throwing out the smoke.  But now matter what I try, I can not get that debris to work with any kind of emitter or replicator.  It appears to replicate the object, but they never move.

Ive tried the direct approach, just linking the emitter to the second emitter: no go
Ive tried grouping the emitter first, and then linking it to the second emitter: no go
Ive tried parenting the emitter to another object and then putting the parent into the 2nd emitter: no go
Ive tried putting the emitter on a surface replicator (was gonna animate the surface)..but no go either.

anyone have any suggestions on doing this with the emitter? or am I going to have to do it the hard way?...one at a time...

tia
bt

I'm sorry but I can't answer your questions, but both pictures totally rock. David

bt

Very good Brycetech... I never work with particles in Carrara but I think that theres a way to do that. I will try something. Why you dojnt post your animation in youtube.com to us?

Very cool indeed Brycetech!! Reminds me of some footage of a battle-scene from Babylon5 that I slow-framed to check out the details. You break things real good too,lol.

Can't you have a whole lot of individual emitters each doing there own thing in there own time?

They don't have to be associated with any other thing or each other.  Each just located/pointed?shaped where you want them to be.

(Sorry if I have miss understood your problem)

bwtr, thats what I had to do
but not what I wanted to do

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BT

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BT

Really cool Brycetech! We can know more about how you did this explosion?

Hi bt, I left you a message on one of the Carrara Yahoo forums, regarding a quick tutorial on how you achieved the explosion effect. The Yahoo forums have had some email problems lately, so I figured I'd try again here. You said you were able to use Carrara's Explode modifier so that it breaks things up in "chunks" as opposed to polys. I am very interested to learn how to do this, I've been trying to figure this out for some time. If you would be willing to put together a quick (yet detailed enough) tutorial, video or step-by-step PDF, I'd be willing to pay you for your time. By the looks of some other posts here, others might be willing to as well. So, without begging.. OK I'm begging.. please, I'd love to know how you got Carrara's Explode modifier to do this. Thanks so much- craig

Im now on the journey to blow up a sky full of ships
and next

nuclear

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BT

Wow, very cool screenshots. Looks like a great start! Thanks for the starter tips, I'll download UV Mapper and give this a shot. Looking forward to hearing more details. I really appreciate your help. craig

Is it UV Mapper Pro that is needed?

I use uvm pro
I dont know if the free version will subdivide (but I doubt it will)

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BT

No. I seems not to. Thanks.

Hmm. Thanks for the heads-up. Here are the apps I have: Carrara 5 Pro, Hexagon 2, Poser 7. Will any of these do the trick? I think I'm still not clear on how subdividing the models can change the behavior of the Explode modifier though, breaking the model into chunks like you show above. Whatever you did looks great, so I'll follow your lead. thx- craig

hex may do it if you tessellate the model multiple times.

bt