emitter ideas

[Ceira Peachy]

I’d like to see some improvments on lightning, mainly orce lightning.

My last lightning project, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbyidU-vRrU I’d like to see improments mainly on the side view.

I also think we need some improved flame emitters, the pro emitters are mainly explosions. And I havn’t seen any realistic flames yet.

Maybe some improved blood effects.

[Ceira Peachy]

I’d like to see this effect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfSQf4GNoAg I know we already ave effects that look kind alook like this. But i think it can be improved to look more like this.

Also would like to see an effect that looks kinda like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHXavPB8064

And this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwX_nkw6MU

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[Ra-ey Saleh]

Well, since you asked…

– Dizzy Stars or Birds (as if a cartoon character has been hit)
– Footprints/Handprints
– Another Heart Monitor effect

Just off the top of my head. Not sure if they’re easy or not.
Hope this helps!

Ra-ey

[Kurt Muller]

Alan, personally I think all the emitters are already versatile enough that users only need to apply a little lateral thinking to modify them if they want to. But hey, don’t stop making them!! You’re the man with the magic!

However, a lot of the emitters obviously are meant to look like they produce their own light, and that light would be visible on other objects on screen. I think the present “glow” emitters are a bit tricky to use for that purpose, and not entirely convincing. Maybe a more subtle “glower” that can be pulled into different shapes more easily, so that the glow of light from an emitter can be more accurately pasted to the objects near it, would be good.

Oh, and maybe if you could make that streaking “shooting star/spacejunk-burning-up emitter somebody mentioned a while back, (I tried but got nowhere), that would be fun, too.

Cheers,
Kurt.

[Steve Eubanks]

I’d love to see something more in bloodspats or bloodspurts. But even more there is a bloody handprint in our library and I’d like to also see a bloody footprint or as someone else mentioned in this thread various types of handprints or footprints.
Thanks.

[Peter Friend]

spinning helicopter blades with a selectable viewing angle

bullet trails through water, leaving little trails of bubbles

a mushroom cloud atomic bomb explosion

clouds on a windy day, with selectable wind speed and cloud greyness

‘300’-style blood splatters

Apologies if any of these already exist or are just too hard to do 🙂

[Ceira Peachy]

We really need some new flames, none of the current flames look real.

I’ve created a semi realistic flame, but it can only be used in windows or in holes in a burning building, it can bed used on floors, walls, anything with a flat surface.

But you couldn’t use this as a firebal or something.

We need some new blood spatter effects, like everyone else has pointed out.
We need a better effect for force lightning, and some other new lightning effects.

[Alan Lorence]

These are all great suggestions, but for the most part they’re particle image projects, not emitter projects. Want better lightning? I need a wide variety of useful lightning images to use as sprites. Flames? Same thing — need animated flames images. Footprints, handprints, blood splatter: all the same. Images.

I’m not an artist. I’m not a Photoshop master. I don’t have access to 3D or other rendering tools to generate a lot of these images, nor do I have the time to do so.

So unfortunately, most of these suggested effects are going to have to wait until I can collaborate with an artist who can generate the images for me, or until *you* (anybody reading this) contributes images that I can work into emitters.

Alan.

http://www.wondertouch.com

[Ceira Peachy]

That sucks, If I could do lightning myself I would.
To make hand/foot prints. You could try dipping your hand/foot in black paint and leaving a print ona paper. Scan in it, invert the color, make the black transparant. And you have a hand/foot print.

Here’s my flame emitter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHh6ekiZzH0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhna2fXwPw

I created it using Gimp auto animate with I-warp, and squirlz morph.

I think I deleted the gif and avi file, so is there a place I can upload the emitter?

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[Ceira Peachy]

Here are some lightning images I’ve created. There are 38, open the zip.
https://www.fileden.com/files/2009/10/7/2596024/Lightning%20zip.zip