Growing vines..

[joe45]

I need help animating vines. The look I'm after is vine/plant starting from nothing and growing up to maturity. Is it a morph that I need? :help:

[SplineGod]

Theres a few ways. The oldest method is to morph along a bone chain.
You can do it with HVs and particles or an endomorph controlled via textures. Theres also the free fertilizer plugin.
Marks got a couple of tutorials on his site:
http://www.md-arts.com/tutorials.htm
Heres growing vines using particles and HVs
http://www.3dtrainingonline.com/support/growing_vines.mov
This method uses an endomorph and textures:
http://www.3dtrainingonline.com/examples/vinegrow.mov

[joe45]

My hat is off to you Splinegod, thanks.

[SplineGod]

Cool, should get you going. KURV has a couple of videos on displacements and endomorphs that show techniques to do this easily. :)

[wavk]

ivy generator?

http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/%7Eluft/ivy_generator/


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