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Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

Bruce.Lee. — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:17:27 GMT

HI,
Lightning tool developed using Bifrost 2.1 version point cloud. And, I used this tool to make the first demo. You need Bifrost 2.1 version and Rebel Pack 0.3.0 to run this tool.

This is only the first version, and I hope to update it in the future. My goal is to make it easy for everyone to create any type of lightning effect.
Of course, I also hope that the official BIfrost team can release better lightning tools in the future.

I upload the file here. And, I will upload it in the compound sharing area.
Please enjoy!

Thanks!

Demo:

Tutorial：

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

mjcg91 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:24:36 GMT

Great work Bruce.

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Christoph_Schaedl — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:37:55 GMT

Thanks thats great!

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doppelgaenger_digital — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:42:47 GMT

Amazing! Great work and thank you!

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PhilRadford — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:17:00 GMT

Amazing Bruce ! Thanks for showing us your workflow. That's quite a graph !!

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takashima. — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:26:56 GMT

Great work! Thank you for sharing 🙂

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

Bruce.Lee. — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:33:43 GMT

thank you all! I have a plan, hoping to make this tool more flexible. I will continue to do it. I also hope that more people can participate in the tool production process. Everything is developing in a better direction 🙂

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PhilRadford — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:48:12 GMT

This is what will make Bifrost great. Lot's of people creating compounds so that when you want to make something cool you wont always have to go deep . The artist will have loads of compounds as a starting point . Iv'e started to create a whole library of artist friendly compounds for myself, made from different elements from different compounds and other peoples scenes . Even something simple like creating an mpm sand set up I have turned into a single compound and published it so that I don't have to create a simulate mpm node and a mpm solver node every time I want to use mpm . So much like houdini we will have a whole bunch of compounds ready to go . What I am enjoying is going deep into other artists graphs and some of my own and grabbing certain groups of nodes that do certain things and publishing compounds and then mixing these with other compounds, it's great ! great work dude !

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Qu!ck — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 18:15:00 GMT

Hi. Great tool. Is it possible to convert lighting to mesh or curves?

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a_baranov — Sat, 08 Aug 2020 05:52:50 GMT

Hi, thanks for the great compoud. But is there a way to render it not with arnold but redshift? Can I convert lightning to mesh or something, that other renderer can see?

Thank you!

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

Bruce.Lee. — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 03:51:24 GMT

Hi,
You can use the "write_Alembic" node. Export the strands into a single abc file. (Be sure to check the "write_single_file" option.)
Then in the top menu of Maya: Cache> Alembic Cache> Import Alembic. The strands will be imported into Maya as curves. Finally, render with any renderer.

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

Bruce.Lee. — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 03:53:22 GMT

As mentioned above.

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Qu!ck — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 13:35:05 GMT

I'd tried this. Write_Alembik node have strange behavior. It write equal to or less number curves then was in the first frame. Same for particles too

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

Bruce.Lee. — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 01:23:07 GMT

Hi,
This is a sample file. It works normally.

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Bruce.Lee. — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 01:25:17 GMT

Bifrost can export particles as abc files. However, Maya cannot read particle files in abc format due to its own limitations.

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a_baranov — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 06:28:05 GMT

Thank you for this workaround! Will try to use it. 😉

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Qu!ck — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 21:57:55 GMT

Yes. But try this :

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a_baranov — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:56:13 GMT

Thank you!

PS. Too bad that in current version of BGraph we have no ability to connect strands dirrectly to maya curves or at least to hair system. It could save a lot of time. 😞

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

286380064 — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 05:46:28 GMT

use "extrude strands"(MJCG compounds's node) export mesh ,

the "levle1" channel can't render in arnold .

the "body" channel can render in arnold .

Re: Bifrost develops lightning tool demo 1

a_baranov — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 14:22:10 GMT

Thank you so much again and again.

Looks like this tecnique works completely as I wanted in redshift. Even UVs are there. I've managed to work level1,2,3 and body. Something is strange when you try to playback when every extruded tube is visible, but once you render frame by frame everything is good.