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  • Need help with some lava

    Posted by Brian Smith on May 12, 2008 at 7:30 pm

    Hey Guys-
    I’m calling back to you guys for some help. I need to create some lava. It’s just for a background element for a website, so nothing crazy fancy, but the built in lava texture in C4D is pretty bad. If it’s possible, it would be nice to have some bubbling too. I may not have time to get that. Thanks guys! You rock!

    Randy Johnson replied 17 years, 8 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Randy Johnson

    May 13, 2008 at 8:32 am

    There are many kinds of lava.
    If you want a flowing lava run an emitter in a metaball…but this will take forever to render. A less detailed version of that could be an emitter with lots of particles and a motion blur.
    I think a noise with displacement should handle the texture aspect.

    /randy

  • Brian Smith

    May 13, 2008 at 4:55 pm

    Man, you weren’t joking, it does take forever to render. But that is what I’m going for. Thank you very much! I do have one last question. Is there a way, (with pyrocluster or environment, or something) to get some sort of displacement, as if it was hot. I can’t remember what it’s called, but essentially I’m looking for the same effect that you get if you look right above the surface of a freshly paved asphalt road in the summer time. It’s not critical, but it would make a nice touch. Or is this better try and fake in AE?

  • Randy Johnson

    May 13, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    Yea metaball gets a nice flow but rarely worth the time.

    for steam you could use a light with visability and noise turned on.
    Or you can try pyrocluster on with steam setting…but personally i would make it in AE or combustion or any other compositing.

    /randy

  • Randy Johnson

    August 21, 2008 at 6:23 am

    I recently bought the cinema 4d es magazine (in english) and they have included an amazing lava texture that looks great and then you can just animate it onto a plane or model.
    /randy

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