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Scriptet galaxys animation.

ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9 Posts: 0
edited September 2012 in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)

Hello.

I need to make in Studio 3 some animations with galaxy flights. I need a script language code, that can place many random points in space, and then attache to each point a texture, so when rendered instead of points to appear galaxies. Then I'll fly the camera through space and create my animations. Can this be done with Studio ?

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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804
    edited December 1969

    Not literally, though you could create a series of plane primtives for your galaxy images and distribute those at random.

  • ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    But if I create some primitives with pictures on them, then the galaxies would not look 3d. Can't I somehow put the galaxy pictures in Studio without primitives ?

  • OstadanOstadan Posts: 1,125
    edited December 1969

    Unhelpful anecdote: Astronomy professor wants to see if anyone in his class is paying attention. He puts up a slide of a galaxy, appearing as a round disk. "Here's the galaxy X324." He then puts up another slide of a galaxy viewed at a more oblique angle. "Here's the same galaxy, photographed from a different angle." Nobody in the class saw any problem here.

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804
    edited December 1969

    You'd need some kind of 3D model to do that, I think. it might, in principle, be possible to do something with a custom shader but that would be a lot of work and would, I fear, be as slow as working with a simple 3D galaxy model.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,206
    edited December 1969

    use 3d objects with textures
    maybe try to model some in Hexagon if you are real keen!
    can do all sorts of spirally things (don't ask ME how though, dunno, I use Carrara, I can do them there)
    can add glow, opacity maps etc
    or just look on sharecg etc for shapes

  • ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9 Posts: 0
    edited September 2012

    I have tried to make the galaxies with primitive planes, it works fine as long as the camera is not getting to close to any galaxy, because then it becomes obvious that the galaxies are not 3d but just 2d pictures. Can't I somehow turn the pictures into sprites or quads, or at least the pictures to face the camera always ?

    Look at this animation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08LBltePDZw

    It was made in blender, the galaxies are just some textures that the author has turned into quads (or so he says on his blog: http://miguelaragon.wordpress.com).

    And the second problem I'm facing: how do I randomly create thousands of primitive planes distributed randomly in 3d space ? I can't simply place every plane manually, I need to use some kind of script. Can this be done ?

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,206
    edited December 1969

    not in Daz studio.
    You can using relicators in Carrara,
    infact you could do what you originally wanted to do in Carrara, that is, replicate induvidual stars.
    possibly Bryce could do something simillar with instancing
    (I do not use Bryce)
    download it while it is free and ask on the Bryce forum perhaps.

  • ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9 Posts: 0
    edited September 2012

    I have both, Carrara and Bryce...and Hexagon.

    So I could obtain everything I want in Carrara ?

    A short list of what I need:

    1. Pictures of galaxies turned into some kind of 3D objects (I already have about 100 high quality HD textures with alpha channel made from astonomical photos), or at least to give the false impression of 3D objects (like a sprite, or a quad, or a 2D picture with a 3d halo, or the pictures to always point at the camera.)

    2. Adding some light effect to the textures, like a 3d diffuse halo or something.

    3. Placing randomly thousands of objects in 3D space via a script or something.

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  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,206
    edited September 2012

    replicators randomly place virtual instances of objects in grid, ball or arc patterns or on surfaces
    in Carrara drag the replicator icon in to your scene and in the spanner room for it add the objects you want to replicate
    you have lots of parameters to play with
    ask on the Carrara forum
    very friendly bunch there
    if I had known you had Carrara I would not have suggested anything else!!!!
    in Carrara it is just too easy!!
    there are also particle emitters and stuff.
    once you go Carrara, you NEVER LOOK BACK! LOL! %-P
    PhilW has a great galaxy scene http://www.sharecg.com/v/40215/gallery/5/3D-Model/Galaxies-Flythrough

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  • ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9ro_smihai_cb1ef7b2f9 Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Ok, thank you for your kind answers. I'll open a new post in the Carrara forum.

  • cridgitcridgit Posts: 1,757
    edited May 2022

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