Rendertime metaballs

[bobvelocity]

I can get these to render. Does anyone know and can tell me what to do please? They look very straight forward but I'm missing a trick somewhere.

Kind regards

Keith

P.S

Not Meatballs if you read this Rich.

[vlado]

Can you post a scene?

Best regards,
Vlado

[bobvelocity]

I've emailed you the scene. It's very basic, purely to test.

Regards

Keith

[bobvelocity]

Hey Vlado, was there any movement on this? I still can't get it to work.

Regards

Keith

[Svetlozar Draganov]

Is there a chance to attach the scene to the forum so other people could also have a look at it and help?

[bobvelocity]

metaballTest_v001.zip

Not sure how to attach a zip to a reply.

[bobvelocity]

Is there a chance to attach the scene to the forum so other people could also have a look at it and help?

metaballTest_v001.zip

There you go, like I said it's really simple.

Regards

Keith

[georgi.zhekov]

If you set your particles to be in the positive set only and you set them to be spheres instead of blobby surface it should render.

Best regards,

[bobvelocity]

That's literally all I have done but to no avail. The particles render fine but when I make the Metaball1 node visible? nothing.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Here it is, just hit render

pourBlobby2.zip

[bobvelocity]

Really appreciate that thankyou. But alas, it still doesn't render! I'm not even getting an error message. Could it be something to do with the build of VRay? I'm running 3.01 still.

Regards

Keith

[ivaylo.ivanov]

Hm, ok will check this. I don't remember such bug in 3.0, but anything is possible.

[ivaylo.ivanov]

In V-Ray 3.0, the Metaball system seems to require a visible particle system, so you must remove the "skip rendering flag I put on the nParticle1 node.