creating a particle effect on my character mocapped dancer so that it is moving

[Anonymous]

Hi im a little stuck im wanting to some particle effects on top of my mocaped dance to give it a really nice effect that is almost part of the dance e.g like a glowing particles that are shaped like my character so it is like it is part of it and flows with my animation something like this url example

[irishman_team_kilber]

you have not put a link in the topic so we cannot really help or if you say what kind of particle effects you want then we can help

[Anonymous]

sorry i thought i did how do i put a link on

[irishman_team_kilber]

you just copy and paste the URL into the thread window and it will appear unless they are blocked by the spam fliter that the moderators/assistants only have control over

[Anonymous]

I'm hoping to do something similar in what they have done with there particle effects on my mocapped dance move in 3ds max though i don't have sadly enough knowledge of maya or the time to learn, officially I'm not expecting it to be as amazing as these but i thought this would be a good example of what I'm trying to explain on what I'm struggling with its for a final project and i wanted something special to end with would it help if i add what music i will be using for my dance please let me know if this helps or if you need anything else

[irishman_team_kilber]

you neeed to be more specific from the videos 2 it look like you want to the mocap figure to disintegrate? you don't give enough infomation out or a time line number.

disintegrate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbBxbSq6p8 tutorial

the problem is i am not sure how you are gonna do it with the biped figure there was a tutorial on how to disintegrate a charcter but i cannot find it and  you would need to spend money on a subscription

[Anonymous]

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As i said the videos  are just examples of what I'm looking to do i don't particly want my character to distintergate like in video 2 purple character but more I'm looking for a way to incorporate a type of effect or particle effect so it similar like the examples or something basic to the degree and looks like its a part of the character and moves with my animation like i don't know glowing particles in the shape of person  or around my character mesh and it moves with the animation on my character mesh like these photo character example have a particle effect on them and it moves with there animations that is what I'm wanting I'm not bothered about it disintagrating or not as the end effect I'm more interested in creating a particle effect that can be placed on my character mesh so that i moves with my character when animated 

[irishman_team_kilber]

I think that way too advanced  for max and for me i think i am just a beginning learning particle fx You would need something like after effects to do the fx you're looking for

[Anonymous]

ok thank you fir your help do you know anyone else who could help me by any
chance

[irishman_team_kilber]

sorry i don't know anyone and after effect is mainly designed for special effects! you should check it out

[Alfred.DeFlaminis]

Hello @Anonymous,

This is a bit of a tricky scenario, depending on your experience level.  I believe that a good portion of this will be needing particle flow and possibly a lot of time/patience or a plugin that can help with the polycount and physics.  The boxes react to one another, so that means you'll likely need some MassFX or another physics plugin to emulate the bouncing of the boxes off of one another.  You may check out the particle capabilities of rayfire or another plugin like it.  The voxel, slice, and particle physics would be essentially built in if you used it.  

The demo videos are likely made with Maya that comes with the ability to do most of this right off the bat.  Please let me know if you have specific questions.

Best Regards,

[Alfred.DeFlaminis]

Hello @Anonymous,

I just wanted to follow up here, any progress on this issue?

Best Regards,

[Anonymous]

no still working on it

[Alfred.DeFlaminis]

Hello @Anonymous

How's it coming?  What method are you using for this?  If you have a technical problem with a specific aspect of it, I'm happy to help.  

Best Regards,