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Mesher object in max - anyone played with it?
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21 Apr 2010I am now learning new stuff in max and continuously read through one very "fat" book, max encyclopedia in 1200 pages approx. It goes very detailed into many stuff.
Knowing, or should I say, guessing how unpopular Compound object section amongst max users could be, I nevertheless found this interesting enough to post. Have you, people, messing around with so called Mesher? It is special compund object which can turn a particle system into mesh so you can apply to it modifiers like bend, twist and animate them if you like? I found it quite interesting to play with.
Particle field is still covered in fog to me but here I add quick and draft test I did just now. See video and picture below. Not a Houdini magic but still...
Maybe it's just me who didn't know of this mesher but who knows - max is kinda deep you know
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22 Apr 2010Yep, I use it all the time to convert particles to geometry. It's very handy
Also, I've moved this topic to the 3d studio max forum. -
22 Apr 2010tbh i didnt even know something like this existed
but looks interesting i will try it our and see what i can do with it.
thanks for the tip kashak -
22 Apr 2010nice find! i wasn't aware that such a thing even existed!
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22 Apr 2010Well, I guess reason why this and other tools from compound section aren't so popular could be explained mainly due to unpopularity of boolean operations because of their topology crippling side-effect. That's understandable. But I decided to give more closer look into this tools. They aren't so bad and patiently and inteligently working with booleans can yield very great results in lesser times. And now in max is pro-boolean added.
By the way, than next question from me. Have some of you also played with such tool in max as scatter? It is found also under compound objects. Will try to post few quick results which might give you perhaps some ideas.
As for mesher object. Now I just come to think of what could be done in max if one could try something like this. Once you converted some nasty particle stuff into mesher than applied some animated modifiers. Than turn all this stuff into Point Cache and than again apply some modifiers if you want to make things even crazier. And what came into my head, just as loud idea - is it possible to somehow all this created particle/mesher/animated modifier crazyness add into reactor simulations either as rigid body or as soft body element or whatever? Just curious if that's possible. Not sure, don't know reactor that much. But still, what if... -
23 Apr 2010Sweet! Learned something new today.
Thanks, kashak! -
23 Apr 2010Ah, very handy.
One of the neat things about 3D apps is there's always something in there you didn't know about. -
23 Apr 2010Yeah i used it a few times.
Its great for some stuff. Like when you are modeling some shapes that are hard to manually arrange you use pflow and mesher after that.
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