Particles & Metaballs

[tschwenke]

Hi,

Now, the plugin works well, but Particles and Metaballs doesn't seem to work for me. Is this a feature that isn't supported yet?

Regards,
Thomas

[Sighman]

Octane can only deal with mesh geometry. Carrara does not translate Metaballs into mesh to they can't be rendered by Octane.

Octane also does not have a way to render non-mesh particles. You can, however, configure Carrara to use mesh particles. These will be recognized by Octane.

[tschwenke]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

1) When I use a Particle Emitter and use, for example, diamonds, these particles will be rendered only when I make a Carrara render inside the window. Using the Carrara Animation Slider will not update the Octane Render Window. Do I something wrong?
2) How can I render fluids without using Metaballs in Carrara? Pycloid? Or can I convert Particle Metaballs into a mesh?
3) If (2) is not possible, wouldn't it be possible to use a Metaball algorithm and create the mesh for Octane Render? Metaball algorithm doesn't seem to be very complicated...

Regards,
Thomas

[Sighman]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer.

1) When I use a Particle Emitter and use, for example, diamonds, these particles will be rendered only when I make a Carrara render inside the window. Using the Carrara Animation Slider will not update the Octane Render Window. Do I something wrong?
2) How can I render fluids without using Metaballs in Carrara? Pycloid? Or can I convert Particle Metaballs into a mesh?
3) If (2) is not possible, wouldn't it be possible to use a Metaball algorithm and create the mesh for Octane Render? Metaball algorithm doesn't seem to be very complicated...

Regards,
Thomas

I will need to investigate emitter animations.

I'll add meatballs to the list. Don't expect support for awhile. You should ask orion_uk how he did fluids in his animations.

[Spectralis]

I'll add meatballs to the list.

Could we have some pasta with that too?

[Sighman]

I'll add meatballs to the list.

Could we have some pasta with that too?

Grrr, damn auto-correct!!!

[orion_uk]

You should ask orion_uk how he did fluids in his animations.

Have talked with Thomas via PM but for the benefit of others..

Its quite a simple solution tbh...

I created the fluid sim in blender (you can also use realflow) and exported it as an obj sequence...
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthr ... J-sequence

Then import in to carrara with...
http://www.digitalcarversguild.com/plug ... oductId=21

[Sighman]

I dropped a few metaballs into a scene and I was surprised to see them render in Octane. Apparently, Carrara does convert them to mesh. I don't know why you are not seeing them in your scene. I don't have any complex metaball scenes in my library so if you can point me to one I will investigate further.

[Sighman]

About Emitters

The plugin only supports emitting Objects. All others types, including Metaballs, are not supported. Here is a little clip demonstrating using a sphere primitive as an emitted object.

[tschwenke]

Hi,

Thx alot for your answer. In fact, I mean the Metaball PARTICLE object
A simple Metaball object works fine, but I never use it.
So, is there any chance to see Metaball particle objects "in action" with Octane render? Would be great.

orion_uk pointed out a great way to do it with Blender or Realflow, but sometimes, I just want to stay in Carrara... quick and dirty

Regards,
Thomas