I’ve been using some of the exciting new features in Blender 2.34 at work lately for printed illustrations, mainly the particle force fields and deflection. On the weekend I had a bit of time to play with it, and made a few tests and demo files. All of the source .blend files for these images and animations are available if you’d like to see how they were done.
Yafray raytraced DOF blur (click to enlarge)
Testing particle deflection
Testing particle deflection, Yafray integration, subdivision surface creases
Testing the particle deflection as in the previous file, but the number of particles has been increased, and metaballs are used instead of sphere meshes for a water effect. I turned down the render quality on this one since it was just a quick proof-of-concept, but it seems that this has a lot of potential for faking fluids.
Source .blend files can be found in here: http://mke3.net/projects/tests
Great work Mike! You should puplish your work on Diffrent ezine such as http://www.eruditiononline.com
Fahad Khan.
Cheers, mate
Don’t know about that website though, it looks quite Indian-centric, and I’m not exactly Indian
used your file to try something out…
http://members.home.nl/dotblend/yafrayfiles.htm
animation @ http://members.home.nl/dotblend/yaf/testpartsc0001_0089.mov
Hey, that looks great, Peter! Reminds me of hot metal in a steel works or something. Glad the file was useful
I like your site, too.
Another yafray experiment with your bucket. The water idea was interesting, so I decided to raytrace it (and slow it down to watch better & increase the number of particles)
http://astro.scu.edu/~ted/oss/blender/test/brokens_bucket_yafray.avi — JPEG AVI, 720×405 3.4MB
http://astro.scu.edu/~ted/oss/blender/test/brokens_bucket_yafray0079.jpg — One frame, full size as a JPEG
Nice! Good to see people are using these files – makes it feel worthwhile