This sounds (and looks) like it could be done with a randomized array of
blobs which have a halo or fog (media)


Lance Birch <lan### [at] usanet> wrote in message
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> Well, as I stated earlier it's done with MAX but I'll give you a run down
of
> how it was achieved...
>
> First I made a simple particle emitter and made the particle size 0 (so it
> wouldn't show up) and set the spray speeds pretty low and variance (the
> degree of randomness in the spray direction) to about 10%.  The emitter
was
> quite thin and very wide.
>
> Next I placed an deflection plate under the emitter and set the bounciness
> pretty low so when they hit it they wouldn't go all over the place :)
>
> I then added a gravity spacewarp in the scene and set it's gravity to half
> that of normal so that the mist would drift rather than fall.  Then I
bound
> the gravity and deflector to the emitter so that they would affect it.
>
> Next I attached the main part of it, the thing that makes it actually look
> like mist!  There is a very cool plugin for MAX that is totally free.
It's
> called FreePyro, named after it's bigger brother PyroCluster.  Basically
> what it does is get all the information from the particle system that it
> can... what it does is builds "media" spheres around each particle and
bases
> the properties of the cloud on a whole number of difference parameters and
> also the particles information such as rotation, age etc.
>
> I simply added the system to the particle system, and then altered a few
of
> the settings to make it appear a little softer.  Then I just let it
render.
>
> :)
>
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> Phil Clute wrote in message <372BBD47.B05D167E@tiac.net>...
> >Wow that's really good.
> >
> >>If you want any more info on it I'll be happy to provide it
> >
> >If you don't mind I'd like to see how this was done too.
> >
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