Anatomy of Concept:
A central control object drives the vector and twist of the softbody goals.
Particles are emitted from the surface of the softbody objects.
Steps for Creation:
Create | Orient | Parent:
1 poly cube, slightly flattened (scale.y).
1 nurb cylinder with 20+ spans & scale.y to elongate it.
1 locator positioned at the top of the cylinder.
Parent the locator to the cylinder.
Duplicate the loc|cyl so one meets each face of the cube.
SoftBody | Springs:
Make each cylinder a softBody.
Duplicate, Make Copy Soft | Hide Non-Soft Object | Make Non-Soft a Goal
Select the particles of the new softBody and create Springs
Hide the Springs.
GoalPP Weights:
RMB select 75% of the particles starting from the bottom.
Using the Component Editor, Particles | goalPP , change the column to 0.000
.
Keyframe the control poly cube rot.y over 50 frames and play the timeslider (free playback speed).
Your softBody particles should be deforming according to the rotation.
Particle Emission:
Select the SoftBody cylinder and then Particles | Emit from Object.
Emitter Type SURFACE and use 500 or so.
Adjust Particle Emission:
Edit the particleShape node with the following adjustments.
.85 Conserve
LifeSpan Mode | Random Range | .85 | .35
* PLAY TIME - EXPIRIMENT HEAVILY!!!
Finishing Up:
Keyframe a rotation of the control box (rot.y) and translation (trans.y) among 100 keyframes or so
A Gravity and Radial field to pull down and push out from the central axis on the particles.
Hardware renderable MultiStreak | 7.4 Tail Size was used with a gradient in rgbPP
Final Comp | Closing:
Toy around with different settings, fields, particles etc.
Below is a post use of the particles.
HAVE FUN AND EXPIRIMENT!!
Scene File softParticles.zip
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