Water Tendril test - Lightwave voxels @DavidRidlen

Uploaded August 2011 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

Just fartin' around with particles and voxels.

-Particles must self interact so check Show Size & Output Size, & enter Particle Size. Must 'calculate.'
-Trail emitter with 'Crowd' interaction, viscosity 1000.
-A separate, splash emitter just above floor, aimed down- Crowd, visc 125.
-Another static emitter placed where the tendril intersects with itself, with just a few particles scaling up to create a bulge effect, Blending additive.
-Age grad on tendril size, and ripples in the bump.

$Fireworks created in Lightwave HD A parent emitter is the rocket, A child emitter is the trail of the parent rocket emitter (trail emitter parented to rocket), with child Nozzle set to Parent-Emitter. and a 2nd child emitter is flash, also parented to the rocket emitter (Flash emitter parented to Rocket) and Nozzle set to Parent Emitter End, which is a single point emitted and lasting only one frame, for a flash effect. and a 3rd child emitter parented to the rocket emitter is the tips of the trails that burst/spread out, The Tips emitter has its own child emitter called trails that spread out a trail. The Trails emitter has its own child emitter (hierarchy: rocket-tips-trails-trails), leaving secondary trails. Choose appropriate gravity, drag, vibration, parent-motion, and winds to make particles move and twist as in the second type of firework in the demo, and ad an overall direction wind to have them drift slightly side-to-side. Reference actual fireworks to get motion and timing. Use correct scale. Come up with your own sprite colors, etc. A moving turbulence in the sprite luma makes them twinkle a bit. The smokey haze is a simple fractal noise generated in Fusion, moving right to left slowly as if in a slight wind, and is revealed by a luma mask. The luma mask is created by glowing and blurring the fireworks, so the fireworks seem to illuminate the haze. Also check post #8 on Newtek forum- http://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php?t=121130&highlight=workshop to download my Bush Burst scene, which demos a similar type of child emitter hierarchy setup. Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cLzWWETGpc$

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