[Hervé]

he he.... really nice things in the air.... Magic Maxwell... cool stuff Tom !

[tom]

yup, realistic floating soap bubbles are a must have nowadays which i could'n live w/out...

Yes, maybe they are not as useful as concrete walls but well, how long they would have to wait to be simulated.

Hervé, thx.

[Tim Ellis]

Totally cool TOm.


Will it be possible to animate textures in Studio, or will we have to use the methods you have?

Cheers,

Tim.

[tom]

Thank you Tim! I just used 3dsmax plugin for this animation, nothing special.

Here's a close-up of a bubble on the streets of Pisa.

Bubble on the Street (click image to download the animation)

Rendered @ 512 x 512 up to SL14 in 35 min per frame on Pentium4 2.8HT (50 frames total)

[jomaga]

Very very nice, Tom!

[Xlars]

Beautiful !!

Is that a hdri/mxi you used for background and environment lighting?

[NicoR44]

Unbelievable Tom!! it's that great!!

[Hervé]

cool, but I recognize a real bubble footage made by Atlas... and you're trying to make us believe it's Maxwell.... ahhhh... (hehe)

[tom]

Heheh... yes Hervé, Atlas renders too much bubbles

Xlars, yes that's environmental lighting

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[Xlars]

Using 3ds max I tried to do a similar thing as you have shown here .. making a sphere assigning your Soap Bubble Material. Then I used a .mxi (created out of a .jpg using MXCL) as background (screen mapping), illumination, reflection and refraction channel. But when I render it is showing like it is solid and not transparent. When I model a box and put it behind, it does show like transparent. Why is the .mxi background not showing through this soap bubble. Any idea what I might be doing wrong here? Thanks

EDIT: I will try rebuilding the scene .. get some strange error messages about a missing map that I can not see is used anywhere (c:\temp\raro.jpg). Will see it that helps.

[tom]

The render output will explain what's going on...

[w i l l]

Nice bubble in the street! Need to try some of that.