Creating dirt systems

[Jason Matthews]

Hello everyone. I am working on an animation that requires a mechanical arm to reach down to the ground and scope dirt and a close up of the dirt falling into a container. Does anyone know of a tutorial showing how to create this kind of effect? I imagine it will be some kind of emitter, but I am not sure. I am not much of an animator. Thanks in advance.

 

-Jason

[Ricardo Eloy]

You could use some particle system to simulate dirt. Try Super Spray with gravity. It'll take some time to reach the effect you want, but it's an affordable way to do it, I think.

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Rick

[Jason Matthews]

Thanks Rick. I will give that a try.

[xgarcia]

Hey Jason,

 

Long time....

What the hell are you working on? Sounds wild!! Stepping aside from architecture for a while?

 

Xavier

[Jason Matthews]

Yeah, Andy Willard and I are working on greenhouses and a lander project for International Food and Agricultural Services on campus. They have thoughts, we put them in digital form. We are working on a few things. Check out the ftp site.

 

http://class.dcp.ufl.edu/arc6913

 

-Jason

[pixelperfectg]

Might be fairly easy to setup in PFlow as well. If your not too familiar with Pflow this thread will help:

http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=114324

You may want to ask them for a solution. Lot's of experience in that thread.

 

Jeff