Mushroom Clouds...again

[RooMan]

There are some older threads about atomic blasts and particularly mushroom clouds in here but the info is years old and most tutorial links are long gone.
But you know how it is...eventually one has to try this! It's right up there with tornados and T Rexes.

I'm wanting to play around with this and would appreciate any thoughts, links, tuts, etc...I'm really leaning towardd more of a smaller tactical nuke cloud effect like "Sum of All Fears" as opposed to the whopper H-bomb stuff.

I have an old A-bomb effect off of an old LightRom CD from years ago but this didn't use any particle effects and, as good as it was, is a bit dated. Need to start from scratch.

Thanks!

[drfoley]

I have been wondering how to do this as well for sometime. I havent found any tuts on the subject for LW. I think I'm going to start with using endomorphs + particles(hypervoxels). BTW, how would you finish your animation?

Has anyone ever seen footage of a completed A-bomb explosion? I never have. What actually happens to the cloud after the mushroom?

This will take some research.

Dr.Foley

[RooMan]

Some of the older posts out there say there is a Particle FX file that you can download from Newtek directly which contains an a-bomb effect ready to load. I'm still trying to find it, tho...the post that mentioned it was three years old and the link given is dead.

I think a-bomb clouds basically just dissipated into "normal" cloud shapes after awhile before vanishing altogether. Don't know for sure. Luckily, I never saw one!

[JamesCurtis]

A good while ago the Light-Rom series of object sets contained an A-Bomb blast. I Don't know if the sets are still available. It was in Light-Rom Set #6 and was released by Graphic Detail. The scene was quite good for its time.
I don't know if a website exists as the sets I own do not list one. However, a search for Light-Rom or Graphic Detail might turn up something.

Good luck hunting.

[Red_Oddity]

On research about atomic blasts (and for a pretty good watch), go rent or buy 'Trinity and Beyond, the atomic bomb movie', there's nothing more fun than watching a movie about nothing but big explosions with a great sound track and a voice-over by nobody less than William 'Cpt. Kirk' Shatner.

http://www.vce.com/trinity.html

on a side note, there is offcourse always the BitTorrent network if you really really can't seem to order or rent the movie in your country. I probably should not mention this, but since where talking research here, i thought i mention it anyway.

Also, Yahoo store has a great deal on a gift pack with all 5 VCE Movies :
http://store.yahoo.com/vceinc01-store/atdvdgifpac.html

And as for recreating it, well, go check how movies that use digital/composited 'atomic' explosions are edited, it is very very very (did i mention very?) rare to see a digital atomic bomb exploding from A to B in one shot, they almost always edit the shots so you see different stages of the explosion, this is done because it is otherwise almost impossible to get it right.

[Edbittner]

Try here:
http://www.finalight.com/-/index.html
They look really cool and are reasonably priced.
E.

[Hoopti]

Some of the older posts out there say there is a Particle FX file that you can download from Newtek directly which contains an a-bomb effect ready to load. I'm still trying to find it, tho...the post that mentioned it was three years old and the link given is dead.

I think a-bomb clouds basically just dissipated into "normal" cloud shapes after awhile before vanishing altogether. Don't know for sure. Luckily, I never saw one!

On my disk, that is in the classic content directory, under Scenes/_Features/Particle_Dynamics and I think it's titled something like demo_atomicbomb.lws or something similar.

Hoop

[Orimar]

BTW, in the same directrory path that Hoop pointed to there is a "Volumetrics" folder containing a "HVFire" folder. Look for the files "mushroom.lws' or mushroom2.lws."

.O.

[toby]

Anybody know what anniversary is tomorrow?

Similar anniversary to the one 2 days ago 8~

[Red_Oddity]

That would be 60th anniversary of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Are you implieing it's wrong to discuss this subject now? as my thoughts will go out to the hundreds of thousands of victims of those blasts, and offcourse my thoughts go out to the families of the Hibakushas of those blasts.

[toby]

That would be 60th anniversary of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Are you implieing it's wrong to discuss this subject now?

Not at all -

[Red_Oddity]

Ah, okay, atleast it's good people remember and still talk about it...It's a human tragedy we rather wouldn't make again...