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Twister effect
Im trying to create an effect of a distant twister but all the tornado emitters have an effect of looking up at the twister.
How can I ammend the emitters so that the particles are spinning horizontally, so it doesn’t look so cone like?
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Something more along the tornadoes in these video, where its mostly a blur of sideways dust and a really wide funnel?
https://www.tornadocentral.com/chasing/2004/051204/AtticaTornadoWMV.wmv
https://twistersisters.com/video/061205_tornadoes_med.wmv—
Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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The second video is exactly the effect that im looking for.
Big fluffy storm clouds spiralling with flashes of lightning and a long spindly funnel where the particles have a sideway motion rather than the elliptical action of most of the emitters. -
Not sure if this is any help, but here’s a test I made, which started out as the Shadow Smoke emitter and was heavily modified.
The idea was to use Forces to sculpt the shape of the funnel from a larger cloud, and to get that twisting/twirling motion (which is much more noticeable if you drop the Plume particle type’s size down to 150 or so).
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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Thanks for that! Now I have something to put outside my living room window. UJ
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I don’t seem to be able to get that test to work. It says it is not a valid particle illusion project, yet I can see an image in the preview window on the load screen?
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What version of pI are you running? You might need to grab the update to 3.01a off the wondertouch downloads page if you’re on Windows.
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Elvis Deane!
The Apprentice Magician’s Guide to particleIllusion
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