melt mesh ?

[pixelsoul]

Hi does anybody have a good tutorial on how i can make a tutorial of melting a mesh in a animation..

Want to make a toy soldier melt... since we have a project for school ;) Porgram used does not really matter, i heard in Cinema 4d and 3d Max there was a melt option ?

[billrobertson42]

Maybe one of these would help?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=Cinema+4d+melt&btnG=Search

[pixelsoul]

:tu: http://darkxero.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=9

Thx This will work do you happen to also know how i could, make a plane with a peace sign cut out so the mesh could flow in the sign ?

[lemonnado]

This is what you are looking for:
http://www.nextlimit.com/realflow/index.html

I made this with it:
http://www.neophysics.com/images/morerings.mov

Cheers
LemonNado

[pixelsoul]

:D hi that looks great.. do you have a tutorial for that program how i could make such a thing :tu:

[lemonnado]

You need the following programs for that:
1. XSI from Softimage.com. ( Or another RealFlow compatible 3d Package you are familiar with)
2. Real flow

a. model toy soldier
b. model floor with peace sign
c. export geometry triangulated to realflow
d. import into realflow and let it melt onto the floor. It will flow into your peace sign.
e. import the scene back into XSI and render all the frames it takes to melt and save as movie or image sequence for your fav video project.

Tutorials for every step are on the websites of the respective software providers.

Good luck!
LemonNado