hi guys I saw a comercial that psyop did for guinness , and its called guinness dot and they use houdini to make a blue fluid effect.
I am trying to make some thing like thay but I just dont understand the shading of the particles( I think is a spectral shader)….
if u guys know how to make it or at least have an overview of how to doit I would like to hear it….(and i know that this effects its hardcore stuff!!!!!!:-))
so pls help…
sorry for the english
cheers
KrizardMOZierra@hotmail.com 8) 8)

You maybe have to spreak with msalek.com

guys thanks for the tip…..but M.salek its a TD i think he may be busy working on some movie…..but i'm gona try to speak whit him….thanks you guys rock:-) :roll:

there's quite a bit of info in this thread:
http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=172&page=viewtopic&t=11822&highlight=metaball+vol+volume+shader [sidefx.com]

And this guy has done interesting work that is going in the same direction:
http://www.hosok2.com/project/helper/helper.htm [hosok2.com]

I guess apart from the particles a big part of the technique lies in the shader.
If you look on Miguel's website and analyze some of the R&D examples you migth reverse engineer some of it.

good luck!