I question it being better than my previous attempt at it mainly because of the
multiple
media containers used seem to almost defy a harmonious coexistence.
I struggled to get the three parts to blend together and had to settle for this.
The 3 parts are the funnel, dust plume and whatever the secondary, halo funnel is
called.
 To make a more suitable environment I darkened the sky and added a farm house
however this is still a quick test only so no AA and small res (160,120), also
fast-motion
at just 60 frames.
If it's better or worse I wouldn't mind at all hearing either comment, thanks.

Bob
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it looks better definatly, but i am not to sure about the outer halo - how
about posting some large stills to pbi, so we can have a good luck at the
dust cloud as well

it definatly bends to much to fast, if i rember rightly from the disc
chan...

Rick

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looks better.  have you looked at the movie twister lately?  i'm sure
you could get ideas from that.  if you have a dvdrom drive, there are
ways to get still images from dvds to your computer so you can study the
effects upclose.  i have about 3000 images from star trek first contact
spanning about 3 and 1/2 minutes.  it's very enlightening.  since i'm
working on the xwing right now, i wish star wars was on dvd.  vhs just
doesn't cut it for closeup comparisons.  anyway, good luck with the
tornado, i'm interested to see how far you take it.

"Rick [Kitty5]" wrote:
> 
> it looks better definatly, but i am not to sure about the outer halo - how
> about posting some large stills to pbi, so we can have a good luck at the
> dust cloud as well
> 
> it definatly bends to much to fast, if i rember rightly from the disc
> chan...
> 
> Rick

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"ryan constantine" <rco### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
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| looks better.  have you looked at the movie twister lately?  i'm sure
| you could get ideas from that.  if you have a dvdrom drive, there are
| ways to get still images from dvds to your computer so you can study the
| effects upclose.  i have about 3000 images from star trek first contact
| spanning about 3 and 1/2 minutes.  it's very enlightening.  since i'm
| working on the xwing right now, i wish star wars was on dvd.  vhs just
| doesn't cut it for closeup comparisons.  anyway, good luck with the
| tornado, i'm interested to see how far you take it.

If I could ever get the individual parts to not work against each other
I might make some headway with it.  The 3 media containers
have to become very dense in order to block all else, yet the color
goes black.  I've seen Twister and recall how dark those tornadoes
were in it, makes one wonder...  obvious from many real life ones
that they can appear very light gray sometimes, except for the ground
dust plumes.
I've taken DVD stills from War of the Worlds so I could use them to
compare with my Martian War Machine model I had done years ago.
Never have gone back into that to adjust on it.  I think you're right, that
can make for a great method when trying to copy such things.

Bob

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The part I like better in this one is the rows of vegetation on the ground.
Seems that the tornado is moving too quickly along the ground.

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"Bob Hughes" <per### [at] aolcom?subject=PoV-News:> wrote in message
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> I question it being better than my previous attempt at it mainly because
of the multiple
> media containers used seem to almost defy a harmonious coexistence.
> I struggled to get the three parts to blend together and had to settle for
this.
> The 3 parts are the funnel, dust plume and whatever the secondary, halo
funnel is called.
>  To make a more suitable environment I darkened the sky and added a farm
house
> however this is still a quick test only so no AA and small res (160,120),
also fast-motion
> at just 60 frames.
> If it's better or worse I wouldn't mind at all hearing either comment,
thanks.
>
> Bob
> --
> omniVerse http://users.aol.com/persistenceofv/all.htm
>
>
>
>

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"Mike Weber" <mik### [at] pyxiscom> wrote in message
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| The part I like better in this one is the rows of vegetation on the ground.
| Seems that the tornado is moving too quickly along the ground.

Actually dirt there, supposed to be freshly plowed furrows but the scale is off. 
Since
you
mentioned it though I'm going to add some starting crops in when I rescale.
The motion is greatly sped up across the ground for "action", however it might not be
too wrong on the rotation.  Something I should maybe try and apply more realism too,
I agree.

Bob

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