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Thought I would have a weekend mess about at making an organic shaped space vehicle made from particles. No referenece plans or anything - just making it up as I go along.

Starting with the main body I've used two Realflow particle emitters, firing onto each other and being influenced by a vortex daemon. There is about 30,000 particles present at the shown frame.

Image is the resulant particle cloud at about 15 minutes into the fluid simulation.

The particles were meshed within Realflow and imported into Cinema 9.6 using a plugin.

The background blob was made using a similar method but with a different Realflow daemon (deformer).

This render is to see how the mesh performs at render time and is placed in a Cinema Hyper Nurbs.

I tried different materials with the lighting I'm using and opted for this metal finish which uses a low value roughness to blur the highlights a little. A touch of dispersion has been used as a post render effect.

This render generated more ideas: a pilots section and an organic propulsion system.

This is just a weekend mess about so I'm keeping it simple. The next bit is the cockpit glass which is a reshaped Cinema hemisphere primitve. That's being used within Realflow to flow some particles over to form the canopy frame.

The glass and frame fitted to the crafts body.

Turn on the lights! I used a custom made light emitter which was applied to the Maxwell glass material. The emitter came from a material I made months ago - always thought I would find a use for it! In Maxwell the canopy light intensity was adjusted via the multilight feature.

The original Maxwell material which I took the mxi emitter from. On the 'Sigre' it loses some brightness which is due to it being applied to glass (I think!).

For the propulsion system nothing more complex than a few RealFlow circle emitters are being used. Particle speed is set to 0 and a low value volume level is being used - a quick way to get a volume of particles.

This is cool, but I dont really get it...
Are you going to create an organic shaped car and then throw fluids on it?

/ P