Tornado by rcook

Lightwave • (none) • posted on Feb 04, 2002

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Description

Experimenting with particles in LightWave7. This scene uses two particle emitters and three winds. One emitter at ground level to generate the tornado, the other up in the air to generate the clouds. The winds are the swirling wind for the tornado effect, a rising wind to bring the tornado particles up into the air, and a spreading wind at the top of the tornado to blend the top with the cloud layer. Rendering time was around 10 hours on a 1.0 GHz AMD Athlon. No postwork.

Comments (8)

MikeJ

7:21AM | Mon, 04 February 2002

Cool. The effect certainly looks good, although I haven't got the slightest idea what you're talking about. ;) Glad to see there are no homes being destroyed. :)

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Ironbear

7:21AM | Mon, 04 February 2002

Pretty cool. I can see some interesting uses for that effect.

vasquez

10:04AM | Mon, 04 February 2002

cool! almost perfect.

Mehndi

10:53PM | Mon, 04 February 2002

I really like this Russell :) And it was soooo nice being able to watch you set it up and how it all really worked. I was very impressed ;p Now if only I could get my Lightwave to do anything ;p

RobinOberg

2:10AM | Tue, 05 February 2002

this is nice, too bad about the render time cause an animation of this could be cool...

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rcook

8:15AM | Tue, 05 February 2002

Robin, in reviewing my render log, it actually only took about 6-7 hours. My initial guess was a little long because it was an overnight render. Also, it was 800x600 resolution, 5 passes for antialiasing, environmental fog, motion blurring and probably more particles than I needed, but I was tuned out. :) That render probably has around 5,000 particles. The whole scene could be optimized for an animation if needed.

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beyondMyth

5:52AM | Wed, 06 February 2002

looks really cool! :-) ,, i'm working on a "cloud" animation myself, its for my upcoming movie :-) wich is a short approx. 30 minutes long :-) keep it up!! :-) ,, peace

Tamela.J.

12:43PM | Sun, 16 June 2002

WOW Very cool Russ. I love the waterfall tho. "S"