Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Loop-making script

Cage opened this issue on Apr 03, 2010 · 610 posts


Cage posted Wed, 05 May 2010 at 5:00 PM

Quote - Whoa! Now I'm interested. Somebody wanted a shower prop. Your metaballs look like water droplets. If we can create multiple streams of these from a shower head (or whatever) and have them arc down that would be cool. If they can hit a figure and be blocked (like a shadow) or bounced (like a reflection) even cooler.

Well, I have been operating from the idea of trying to reproduce the effect of the old Weird Juice Drops freebie script.  If that was going to be updated, it probably would have happened some time since the release of Poser 7, when it broke.  The Weird Juice package apparently extended to handling fluid dynamics to some extent.

I have no idea how to proceed, with fluid dynamics, however.  The physics of it is way beyond me.  :lol:  I could probably handle finding the locations for the metaball influence points and moving them around, but I'm not sure how to do the dynamics.

There's also the problem of animating a metaball surface.  Poser doesn't allow geometries to be updated on a per-frame basis, minus any awkward tricks like geometry-switching (which I'm not sure PoserPython could set up).  So even if the dynamics could be worked out, I have no idea how the metaball surface could be animated.  😕

I'm not sure whether the Weird Juice package had a workaround of some kind for the Poser geometry limitation.

If anyone has any pointers on fluid dynamics, I'll see what can be worked out, anyway.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.