Hi folks,

I want to use Vue 5 Infinite to create footage of a hurricane lashing a palm tree-lined beach. Has anyone done anything like that before?

You may want to try suing primitive toruses or cylindars and create a cyclone shape out of many of them (layer them in a stack from small to large) and then apply a cloud material to all of them. You may have to stretch the the cloud material along the laterial axis to give it a swirling effect.............at least this is where I would begin. I remember seeing a tutorial for something like this about 2 years ago for Bryce. I think the same principles would apply for VUE also. I would check the Bryce tutorials here or over at 3dcommune. Hope this helps. G&C

Hi Travoose Ditto what GaryAndCatherine said, or you could also try taking a 2D hi-resolution image of a hurricane (spout or is that just tornados?), and apply it as an Alpha Bitmap to the scene. Robert Czarny (da Vue Maestro!) has some amazing examples of using alphas planes in the background of his uber-scenes - See his galleries and links to tutorials on his site too >8o) Naturally if you use Vue based plants, you can click and drag the wind effect for your palms to make them react realistically (still or animation). Good luck!

What I mainly want to do is make a piece of footage that looks like it was shot by a TV cameraman on a beach that's being hammered by heavy rain and winds. I could buy real-life stock footage of such a scene, but it'd cost me about $900. Screw that!

Hurricanes have heavy winds and rain. There are usually a few isolated tornadoes and water spouts, but these aren't all that common. And you don't see a swirling effect when you are in one - that can only be seen from above the storm. Depending on the speed of the storm, you might see some racing clouds as the storm passes. But usually, you don't see much of anything except the heavy rain and wind effects (palms bent over to touch the ground, rain going sideways). You could have debris flying through the air - sheets of metal, parts of roofs, signs, that sort of thing. And don't forget the flooding.

Lin

Message edited on: 03/22/2006 18:16

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If you mean something like this, you can simulate the trees being blown in Vue. The rain would have to be done with a particle generator in something like After Effects (e.g. Particle Illusion).

That's pretty cool. It's more or less what I'm aiming for. Where'd you find it?

you can find Particle Illusion here www.wondertouch.com Goes for around $300 though. You can get the SE version that is limited but it may work for what you may want to do.