Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Waving Tentacles



After consulting with John at SideFX software, I decided to play around a little more with the motion of the tentacles. His advice was to apply the Twist Expression several different groupings of Primitives on the tentacles. I found this distorted the tentacles buy I may not be applying his advice properly. I prefer earlier version of the wavy tentacles. I will we need two on this more and try some other techniques.

Just for my knowledge and mnemonic edification, here are some important expressions to remember:

1*abs(2-(2.3*PCT))) ------ Scale on the SWEEP to get a tapered tentacle
sin(($F*5)*10)*10 ------ Strength of the TWIST on the SWEEP

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