After the webinar introduction to particles I decided to go ahead and try tackling custom forces. My objective, because is allways good to have an objective, was to create a outer space experience, ala interstelar. The project is basically 3 diferent custom forces, spin force, a realistic gravitational pull and a secondary gravitational pool with particles absorbing each other. There is a lot of room for improvement but I feel the core of the structure is there. While studying the forces I found an odd behaviour on the particle interact node…I ended up customizing it. I will go more into detail another day when I had more sleep

That looks wicked! Did you render it in Mantra? How long did it take?

redaborchardt
That looks wicked! Did you render it in Mantra? How long did it take?

Thanks!

No I render it in Arnold, I was testing gridmarkets HtoA render farm. It was the first time I ever used Arnold actually. In this case I feel Mantra would have been a better solution actually, as Mantra handles particles very well. But I kind of wanted to play with Arnold, so .

The lighting is awesome. On a side note, this seems like the birth of a stellar system.

McNistor
The lighting is awesome. On a side note, this seems like the birth of a stellar system.

Lol…don't you worry…I will be hearing it all about it from my brother (he actually research on the subject) suspension of disbelief is hard for him