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  • Drendir
  • Posted: 01 November 2009 07:14 PM
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hey guys I’m trying to figure out how to make an animated stain - what I’m trying to achieve is create a map with forests on it (just green ink stains) who seem to be coming out of nothing in the paper and start animating into self-drawn spots and stains; in the end forming a map together

What I’m figuring out it should I use a shader - texture - model or should I achieve this in after effects on a white AO-render?

If anyone has achieved this already or created something alike, please do share :)

regards,
Ethan



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  • Samab
  • Posted: 01 November 2009 09:01 PM

You mean dried flat ink stains, not blobs of wet ink? For stains I would probably do it in 2D then use the anim as a texture map on a material in Max. If it’s actual blobs then I would go with Pflow and metaballs, like Blobmesh or Pwrapper.



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  • Drendir
  • Posted: 01 November 2009 10:01 PM

well i’ll try to explain it like this: I need animated stains on a map - and I need to be able to pinpoint point A and B

So I guess I got texture A (nothing) and texture B (the end result of the stain) but the way from A to B should not be a simple fade in but rather a moving stain starting at a small spot and growing in size in a somewhat cool fashion to the final B stain..



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8Gb RAM
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