[Brian Jones]

open the FCurve manager and apply an ease out to the keyframe where it stops (or tweek the curve by hand to get exactly the rate you want)

[Brian Jones]

you just need to animate the Scale as well as Growth in a SweepNurb. Make the spline being swept small and scale it up as the growth is animated so it ends up being the size you want.

[Brian Jones]

Fizz still functions in 9.1

[Brian Jones]

You want Fizz (probably) check out ‘Stirring’ in ‘Fizz Explorations’ here https://jeremyw.com/C4D_Stuff/C4D_Links.html

Fizz is free. You can get it here https://www.c4dplugs.com/

[Brian Jones]

probably a bump map is best (unless you need to get real close to it)

[Brian Jones]

I see. Check this out.

[Brian Jones]

side? Have an image only on one side? Use a poly selection to limit the texture for a side to that side. If that’s not what you mean, I don’t know…

[Brian Jones]

maybe this one from Mark Simpson

https://www.creativecow.net/show.php?forumid=19&page=/articles/simpson_mark/waterdrop/index.html

[Brian Jones]

Maybe pyrocluster particles attached to points (or nulls) controlled by the bones or maybe the same with volumetric-no radiation lights with noise…

[Brian Jones]

??? new materials? Import from the material manager.