And the scene file, Max 2012 format, here.

Enjoy!

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 From eat3d: ‘In this DVD Hristo Velev takes up from Part 1 in this series, to go deeper into the intermediate concepts of Thinking Particles. Everything from Raycasting, Referencing, Motion Inheritance, Generation, Driving Scene Objects, Shape Collision, Fragmentation, Caching, Joints, PhysX Dynamics, Deformation, Displacement, Map-Based Interaction, Particle Interaction, Custom Data Streams, FumeFX Interaction, and more are fully explored in this DVD.

This DVD is perfect for those who want to learn more about Thinking Particles and why many studios are using it in production today.’

You can get it from Eat3D, from $49.95

A rendering of the project at the end:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OihfJ4u5FA

Any questions you have – ready to answer here, in the CGTalk thread or anywhere else I appear

Thanks guys, and special thanks to Geri for keeping up with me all the evenings and weekends

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL9SIwCMXIA

And you can get the scene file here.

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Another short tut, tricks from the battlefield This one shows a simple and effective way to introduce meaningful variation invalues, when you have a lot of particles.  Blackboxes can be downloaded here. Cheers!

P.S.: Dedicated to Mr. Mohsen ‘It’s eeeeeeeverywheeeeeere the saaaaaaaame’ Mousavi

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THP_Hheyjhk

This short tutorial showcases a new method I use for sculpting explosions, streams, etc. Simple and very effective! Scene file can be downloaded here.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKniJVnyvD8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UearQ-P4_Tc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jUdWm3HII

The scene file is here (Max 2010, TP4)

Enjoy and discuss below

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You should think of them as a Beginner (the one already released), Intermediate (the second one coming up) and Advanced (the last one).  As the process is going, I realized that I’d need that space to realize my full plan, and instead of cutting back and making a half-hearted effort, we added a third DVD, which you should really enjoy.

And now to the other piece of news – what’s gonna be in these DVDs, exactly? The plan for the 2nd DVD is the following:

• Raycasting – the intersect node. Example with projecting particles on the ground, hovercraft effect
  
• Referencing. Orbit node ease-in, valley airstrike examples
  
• Motion inheritance. The motion inheritance node – example with car and leaves
  
• Intermediate generation and positioning – Particle draw, Matterwaves, Spline, surface and volume positioning, by particle shape
  
• Particles driving scene objects. Object to particle node
  
• Shape collision, sampling, mass
  
• Pre-broken fragmentation – fragment, blurp
  
• Procedural fragmentation 1 – Volumebreaker
  
• Procedural fragmentation 2 – Volumecell and VolumeActivate
  
• Caching. Cache layers and cache elements, shape on birth, DS as an FX wrapper
  
• Joints – Basic SC joints,  use of joint counter and joint data to manipulate them
  
• Joint structures. Procedural jointing system for creating and destroying a jointed structure
  
• PhysX dynamics
  
• Particle-based soft bodies. Vertex to particle, SC deformation
  
• Intermediate object interaction. Collision map, displacement, deform modifier, deform map
  
• Cycles, time and iteration based. Iterator and counter nodes. Examples for iterator cycle and condition cycle through groups
  
• Intermediate non-linear animation. Timer1, time loop, geo instance nla options
  
• Intermediate particle interaction. Pattach, psearch, pselection nodes
  
• Custom data streams. Data channels and memory node. Example with setting global controls
  
• TP to FumeFX
  
• FumeFX to TP
  
• Switching. One to x and x to one nodes. Example with alternate controls
  
• TD tool. Example with a rocket launcher.
  
• Intermediate demo project. Death ray house destruction shot!

Of course, I reserve the right to change that around a bit, but overall that should be it. Plans for the 3rd DVD – the advanced one – will be posted after DVD2 release.

Enjoy and comment! And if there’s anything specific you need to be touched in the DVDs, and I haven’t thought about it – feel free to request

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http://www.cebas.com/?pid=hot_news&nid=364

And the Eat3D one is here:

http://eat3d.com/tp4_intro

Now, I think I have some explaining to do.  First, the more obvious – the unpleasant itchy delay in releasing it was obviously caused by the wait for the TP4 release. And since it’s a TP4 DVD, it wasn’t really possible to release it before TP4 itself, was it

Then about this ’1st of 2′ business. When I started making the DVD, I came up with a plan that I think goes through TP in its entirety in the best way, teaching-wise. With that plan shaping up and progressing, it became obvious that just one DVD will not be sufficient to cover it all. And rather then shortening and compromising it, it was decided to split it up. If you look at the contents list of the released DVD, you’ll see that there are two chapters – and these are the ‘Introduction’ and ‘Beginner’ chapters. The ‘Intermediate’ and ‘Advanced’ chapters will be on the next DVD. And yes, the names should be revealing enough that these are gonna be the more interesting and advanced ones. And the good part is that now that TP4 is out, there’s gonna be no more conspirative delays! It should be out by the end of July. I will publish the plan itself these days, to drool you up a little

That much for now. And whoever has any questions about TP4, the DVD or anything remotely in my competence – don’t be shy

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01. Overview

02. Setup

03. Distribute

04. Noise offset

05. Organization

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