Sounding Rocket

lat 64 · March 09, 2015, 03:19:22 AM

Just want to say thanks to Oysteroid for the help with the rokcet plume(http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,19639.0.html)
and to Dandelo for the night sky work(http://www.planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,19264.0.html)
The Aurora is all mine

The image is a Black Brant XII Sounding Rocket that I modeled in Sketchup.

I wil be working on an animation of this. It's just that moving the plume of smoke to follow the rocket is not as easy as I first thought.

Cheers all
Russ

russe166 · March 09, 2015, 04:40:36 AM

I like it

have tried something similar but have not came very far yet. Can you band the rocket plume into a curve?

3Dships · March 09, 2015, 10:11:02 AM

Cool Pic...! Thanks for those links still need to sort Smoke & Dark Hours.

inkydigit · March 09, 2015, 11:09:49 AM

Cool idea, nicely executed!

J

lat 64 · March 09, 2015, 11:58:10 AM

@ inkydigit,
Thanks to you too. You were inspirational in the wole fumarole thing.
Guess that's why we have a forum.

Bending a smoke plume, whew! Probably some blue node scalar thing. Way over my little head.

Dune · March 09, 2015, 12:00:16 PM

Really nice work. I hope you get the smoke movement to work. I haven't worked with Oysteroid's file yet, so can't be of any help. But I assume you need a pretty high cloud layer, and within that move the mask up with the spacecraft and do some fractal transforming.

Dune · March 09, 2015, 12:01:33 PM

Bending can be done with a warp shader fed by a gradient (distribution shader or distance shader+cam) and a displacement shader.

lat 64 · March 09, 2015, 12:22:56 PM

Quote from: Dune on March 09, 2015, 12:00:16 PM
....I assume you need a pretty high cloud layer, and within that move the mask up with the spacecraft and do some fractal transforming.

An epiphany! I think I am actually beginning to understand what you are suggesting.

Just a note for "nubes" like me: The blue node, Constant vector source position shift, in Oysteroid's .clp is the key to setting the location of the plume. Set x,y,z to same as cloud center.

Dune · March 10, 2015, 04:00:26 AM

Now that you mention your last info; maybe you can animate the cloud altitude as well, never done that, but assume it's possible. Then you don't need a very high layer, thus less grain.

mhaze · March 10, 2015, 04:29:20 AM

Excellent work - amazing what can be done with just one idea.

DocCharly65 · March 10, 2015, 05:42:13 AM

Oh cool...

Ideas, ideas and more ideas ... I just love this forum!

russe166 · March 10, 2015, 02:14:29 PM

Quote from: Dune on March 09, 2015, 12:01:33 PM
Bending can be done with a warp shader fed by a gradient (distribution shader or distance shader+cam) and a displacement shader.

Thanks for the tip

I will try it ...