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For those of you who missed the SIGGRAPH expo, we would like to present some demo videos about the upcoming PFTools:Box#3 plug-in.
Box#3 is about more raw power and more flexibility to the Particle Flow artists. It gives the ability to get deeper into the guts of the Particle Flow engine, and design your own operators and tests without the headaches of maxscript and/or C++.
Just for starters, here’s an example of Box#3 usage – BloodMoon.avi (400x400, 375 frames, 11.1MB). We created this animation as an elaborate test of its spawning abilities and disk caching.
Box#3 has two new cache operators – Cache Selective and Cache Disk – and a series of Data Operators – to get full control on particle properties modification and design your own operators. Data operators use Data View – the new user interface for modifying particle properties and data. The Data View interface is similar to Particle View, but instead of working with operators and tests, there are 22 new sub-operators to design the data flow diagram. Here’s an example of how a new operator can be created out of the sub-operators in Data View (1024x780; 5 min; 6.5MB).
Once a data operator is designed by creating and wiring sub-operators, it is possible to transform it into a regular Particle Flow operator by exposing some of the sub-operators’ parameters, and saving it as a new preset operator (1024x780; 3 min; 3.1MB)
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