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Electric arc TP setup

Hristo Velev — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 08:45:52 +0000

I had the itch to do a point to point electric arc setup for some time, so I woke up extra early this morning and I banged it up!

The result is pretty much what you see in the picture. It shoots an electric arc from point A to point B, with the distortion effect being strongest in the middle, and it does it in one timesample.

You can get the Max 2010, TP4 scene file here, and I will do a video tutorial explaining how it works soon. Cheers!

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Gun and sparks tools for Thinking Particles

Hristo Velev — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:57:49 +0000

A couple of tools that allow for creation of bullets/lasers and sparks. Sparks are generated on impact with geometry. The blackbox can easily be modified to shoot sparks triggered by something else – feel free to use and customize it. The controls are elaborate without being too crowded, you can really craft sparks with that tool.

Quick video demo

Examples

Black boxes download: Gun and Sparks

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Dark UI scheme for Thinking Particles again, but now it works

Hristo Velev — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:47:40 +0000

I spotted some time ago that my post about creating a dark UI theme for TP had the wrong instructions, hence it won’t work.

I’ve now updated the post, that you can find over here:

http://velevfx.com/?p=253

And now it really works, it also uses my last color scheme. Enjoy!

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Bangsculpt – explosion/splash/bang sculpting Thinking Particles tool

Hristo Velev — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:00:50 +0000

And now, to a cool development – I’ve finished Bangsculpt, my tool for sculpting of explosions/bangs/splashes with two curves (angle and radial distribution )and a few other parameters. It’s very cool, check it out!

Download the blackbox here: Bangsculpt

You might disuss it in the TP Forum topic or the CGTalk topic, or just post here.

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Dark UI color scheme for Thinking Particles

Hristo Velev — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:54:45 +0000

Noticing that there is no such thing out there already, I made a dark UI scheme for Thinking Particles – much easier on the eyes and fits a dark Max theme too.

Looks like this:

To install it, open your

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\3dsmax\\enu\plugcfg\thinking.ini

Backup it first, for example save it as thinking.ini.bak. Then paste the following block in the [SchematicViewColors] section (the first one), overwriting the existing one:

In=177 186 231
Out=105 245 174
BG=34 34 34
Operator=100 80 64
Wire=183 183 183
DynamicSet=43 53 100
Body=198 198 198
Out_Dis=44 118 81
In_High=67 71 93
Generator=100 59 59
Out_High=27 45 36
Invalid=185 187 0
Need=17 17 17
Initiator=100 33 33
Shape=100 89 58
Condition=100 81 15
Group=40 77 100
Helper=57 100 40
In_Dis=72 81 125
Title_Sel=44 44 44
Grid=39 39 39
Text=238 238 238
Frame=100 100 100
Shadow=9 9 9
Draw_Shadow=1
Need_Dis=68 69 21
Debug=43 43 84
Text_Antial=1
Draw_Antial=1
Draw_Bendedwire=1
Dis_Trans=118
Shadow_Trans=78

You can revert to the old colors by restoring from your backup file.

Enjoy!

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