Lava Animation

[stefan]

An animation for the lava contest made three Months ago during the Glu3d internal beta testing phase. Glu3d has become fairly stable and feature complete for the initial release (unlike the way it was when we made this animation) and Beta Testing is now open to the public. Feel free to join in at www.3daliens.com.

Here is the final rendered Animation, all rendered from within Max5 with Vray (notice the motion blur)



http://www.tidbit-images.com/glu3d/glu3d_lava_a2.mov (Quicktime Sorenson3) or

http://www.tidbit-images.com/glu3d/glu3d_lava_a2.avi (DIVX 5.04 or higher)

Here a static wireframe shot of the whole sequence from a different angle
(No Quicktime, DivX only. Sorry):
http://www.tidbit-images.com/glu3d/g...particles2.avi

Hope you like it.

Stefan
www.tidbit-images.com
stefan@tidbit-images.com

[PATER]

Wow, what a test!!!
The movement of the Lava and the slight amount of glow is just fabulous!

congrats!

...maybe one could make it a bit more "aggressive" - some burning heat over the surface But it's just a test and it's perfect like this.

[DaForce]

Very very nice !!!

Is there any chance that you could post the scene, as im trying to learn Glu3d and i would love to be able to pick over a scene that works so well

Once again, great anim!

[metroberlin]

very good. seems that i will have a closer look at glue

[themaxxer]

great animation!

but how did you make this slow lava?
could you please share the settings from glu3d?

I think that friction has a bug, it delets all settings and set it back to 3.00!!
how did you make that?

nice day
themaxxer

[zeromancer1972]

Wow, I just encountered your public beta - another way to spend my time *hehe*
Amazing behavior of liquids and much easier to set up than realflow.
Your animation is insane! Congrats!

[stefan]

Thx all for the positive feedback.

@DaForce: I was actually planning on turning this into a tutorial and posting it at our website. I´d even post the scene here but since it was made with a very early beta it won´t load into the current version of glu3d anymore (according to Santiago Redondo, the main glu3d developer). Stay tuned for the tutorial.

@Pater: Yes eagle eye, the glow helps a lot I don´t exactly know what you mean by "burning heat", but one could make burn marks on the concrete with the new wetmaps feature glu3d has now (wasn´t present back then). I wanted to do particle based heat distortion but I wouldn´t have met the deadline then, so I left it out.

@themaxxer: I just made the liquid as thick as I could (which was a value of around 100) with the current build at that time, friction was a common value to all objects (no per object friction in glu3d back then) and was relatively low, I think almost zero. I don´t know how the current build of glu3d behaves in terms of friction parameters, but I currently don´t know anything about a bug that resets this parameter. I must admit I was too busy and therefore haven´t tried the last two builds yet, but I will check. Please post any bugs (and steps to reproduce it if possible) you find at the glu3d forum in case you have the time.

@zeromancer1972: It´s in fact not "our" public beta, its glu3d´s. We are just very active beta testers for the last couple of months , along with mainly two or three other independant guys. Since two weeks the glu3d forum is now much more crowded due to open beta status.

Cheers all,

Stefan

[DaForce]

Awesome!! I will wait paitently..well not that patiently..HURRY UP!! I have been waiting here for 2 mins and still no tutorial.

heheheh sorry...im bored at work.

[lordshaitan]

Awsome lava, and thanks for letting us know about this awsome plugin.

[Neo2k1]

Incredible realism of this animation, great test and i'm waiting with the other forum people for the tutorial!!!!

Nice!!!
Cheers
Neo