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  • Skizzm
  • Posted: 23 December 2008 08:19 AM
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So I’m having a frustrating problem. I’m trying to create an animation involving a hollow glass sphere that’s filled with liquid, the sphere should fall on the ground and crash into pieces, spilling the liquid.
The way I went about this is creating two spheres, one inside the other, using boolean to make the bigger one hollow. When I try to use proCutter tool to slice the hollow sphere in half with a plane, it just doesn’t turn out right.
Any tips are greatly appreciated.



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what u can do is do the sphere, clone it and work on the new one with procutter, take a look at the 3dmax reference, maybe ur doing it wrong, like apply the cutter to the spehere and the stock to the slice objects

then when u anim that ,use visibility track in curve/dope sheet to swtich between them in a desired frame.



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  • Samab
  • Posted: 23 December 2008 10:52 AM

Rather than using a boolean (I don’t unless I really need to), use the Shell modifier to make your sphere hollow.
Or, another way to quickly and easily make fragments from a mesh without needing booleans, shell or pro cutter, is to use the script called Quick Frag, look it up at scriptspot.com



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Hi Samab,

I looked on the Scriptspot for Quick Frag but could not find it.  Can you direct me to another source or possibly email it to me?

Author: QuietSky

Replied: 21 November 2009 04:25 AM  
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Search Scriptspot for quickfrag--no space.

Author: Porter Wayfare

Replied: 25 November 2009 01:50 PM  
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  • Skizzm
  • Posted: 23 December 2008 12:11 PM

That script saved my day. Thank you!



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