Xp swirls partA (VIDEO TUTORIAL)
Added 2020-09-02 17:35:40 +0000 UTCAutumn is here :)
Along with it our new XP training. Its the longest tut i ve done so far its 44 minutes, sorry for that, but lots of stuff to explain.
Enjoy it!
Comments
Ah my reply didnt get through I think. I was saying that this is an old tut and im unsure since xp have changed many versions since then. I d say check the project files to see if they behave correctly. I can remember that displacer was like a post effect here and was working after the fact. Again for certainty check project files to see how this is setup! cheers
Thanos Kagkalos
2024-02-07 06:36:58 +0000 UTCHello Thanos, I am learning a lot from you thank you!! I am trying to recreate this. it is going well but when I try to use the displacer it won't cache, it only caches the displacer and ignores the XP modifiers. any idea why?
Farid Yared
2024-02-07 04:42:08 +0000 UTCthanks bud, all these go without saying I guess :) still though I can break nexus very easy hehe. I do not intend to use nexus for fluids
Thanos Kagkalos
2022-12-26 22:13:46 +0000 UTCHi Thanos, If I may: Just a quick note for those working with Nexus now. If you want to use Nexus fluids, be sure to use the NxPush effector instead of the regular push-apart effector. For collisions, you use a box with collider tag. If you use regular Push apart, particles will go trough Geo. And just for good housekeeping, use NX modifiers for gravity, turbulence and rotate as well. :-)
Chronox
2022-12-26 22:10:59 +0000 UTChehe that is true! What bugs u experiencing this time? I report whatever I find in general. Now im on a scene with Nexus back and forth for a while till they figure out whats the issue
Thanos Kagkalos
2022-11-04 17:51:29 +0000 UTCMan, it's a pleasure watching your tutorials, awesome explanation! About the bugs in XP, did you report them at the time? I'm having the same frustrations, even today there are many faults in their system. It's a lot of fun to play with XP, but the bugs are killing me sometimes :-D
Chronox
2022-11-04 12:41:43 +0000 UTCthanks bud :) always trying to help if possible. Sometimes tutorials are super old so i dont even remember whats going on haha but i ll try to update some of these with newer xp/c4d versions as i feel we can start pushing some of the setups way further
Thanos Kagkalos
2022-10-15 18:18:43 +0000 UTCJust wanna say that it's really dope to see such fresh recent replies as I'm also working through some of the older tutorials. Appreciate you being so active Thanos!
Cole Dorais
2022-10-15 18:17:09 +0000 UTCHey buddy. Mmm defo u shouldnt have big gaps. Xparticles are not meant for this kind of sims, so what i do here works under very specific circumstances. I will rebuild this scene at some point in the future as i will use the nexus versions, but for the moment i ll say download the project files and see if the issue is still there. Sorry for this but again, xp are not for liquids or anything else vfx oriented. I just push them from time to time to create very specific effects, so anything over that probably wont work.
Thanos Kagkalos
2022-10-14 08:15:00 +0000 UTCHey Thanos! Thanks for this great tutorial! I'm running in to an issue which I haven't been able to solve on my own and I feel like I'm missing something super simple here. When I'm running the sim, I get quite big gaps between tthe particles in almost a "banding" kind of way, so when I go to render and add geo to the particles I don't get that solid liquid surface look, but a lot of "holes" everywhere. I've changed the voxels, radius, turbulence but I just can't get it to look like your example. Maybe it's just a matter of adjusting the settings but would love to know if you or anyone else have any idea what I might be doing wrong hehe. Cheers mate!
Oscar Cravalli
2022-10-14 08:00:21 +0000 UTCThis was a bit tricky to follow, especially the last part with those different sizes masking/killing the intersecting particles...I may need to go back to this one again later and re-watch it... mhhh...
Andrea
2021-08-30 13:24:27 +0000 UTCyea it is. Thing with Flip is that uses voxels. So when voxels are high, cannot understand geo proper. FluidFX on the other hand works instantly with an xpcollider, give it a spin.
Thanos Kagkalos
2021-06-12 00:15:18 +0000 UTCIs it possible to get the XPFuidFlip solver to work with a collision tag on an object? I've tried it and the particles keep passing through the GEO.
Shannon Wilkerson
2021-06-12 00:09:54 +0000 UTCSo cool
Shannon Wilkerson
2021-05-26 17:12:57 +0000 UTCYour tutorials are great but I am really only subscribing for the jokes. Keep it up and thank you!
Lucas Flores
2021-04-13 17:03:52 +0000 UTCHey man, sorry probably i missed this message lol. By using instant range node with display color, u can control the material in octane
Thanos Kagkalos
2021-03-15 15:26:01 +0000 UTCHeya! Yes well, its a lot of things if u are new in xp, and its things i been showing in older tutorials as well. Doing my best to repeat everytime but im sure im missing steps. Also it gets tiring for all followers to show basic things over and over, so im just going to the new stuff hehe. Unfortunate for new users! To ur question though: u shouldnt use generator. Just bake the sim, follow what i do in the tutorial. And use octane tag, add any geo u want. No doesnt match, i think it matches when its 1cm or 10cm. So u eyeball it ;)
Thanos Kagkalos
2021-03-15 15:24:31 +0000 UTCHi, Thanos, thank you for the great insight! I'm quite new to XP and running in to some trouble when rendering with Octane. I've tried caching the whole sim with Xp generators and spheres for geo, but when I play back the cached sim, it looses the displacer modifier and doesn't have the up down motion. So then I removed the cache, and tried attaching octane tags to the emitters and enabling particle rendering, added sphere geometry to them but in the IPR window the sphere sizes don't follow the XP size that I have dedicated, I reduced the size of these spheres from their own object menu ( is that always the case? octane object tag doesn't automatically follow XP sizes?) Hope to hear from, as mentioned I'm quite new haha. Thank you again!
rishab
2021-03-15 04:23:10 +0000 UTCHi . How do you use octane render to render project file a_ xpflip_ Simple.c4d material, how to control swirls in octane material node, looking forward to your reply. Thank you.
Arhkam
2020-11-18 09:53:56 +0000 UTCHeya, u use xp display color and output it into whatever channel u want.
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-14 22:01:36 +0000 UTClove this thanos! just one question: how do I render if I want to keep the shader info? I use redshift.
s_b
2020-09-14 21:53:50 +0000 UTCThanks! In the end there are still stuff that dont work as expected but overall thats the basic technique
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-13 09:35:44 +0000 UTCWow, this one was...super killer. I love the effect, and how easy it is to make it your own vs. just copying the original end result 🙌
seanem1467
2020-09-13 01:46:43 +0000 UTCMm i cannot check that but settings seem fine. Is it fixed?
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-10 18:13:58 +0000 UTCSo, the videos keeps saying "due to privacy settings, the video cant be played here". Is anyone else having this issue?
Luis Miranda
2020-09-10 15:04:50 +0000 UTCIts a bit complex tut, try to follow very precise step by step and u ll get to the bottom of this :)
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-04 21:13:59 +0000 UTCFor some reason, can't for the life of me get either the two group method, or two emitter method to interact with one another. Seems like there is something wrong with the particle radius on my end :\
semifiction
2020-09-04 20:58:39 +0000 UTCCool!
Certy
2020-09-04 08:25:52 +0000 UTCI can think of a few super cool applications for this technique, great stuff per usual, I had no idea about the displacement as a XP deformer either.. great to know!
Spenser Clark
2020-09-04 00:24:52 +0000 UTCHello, I own xp since 2017 i think where i started using c4d. It was only 1 pay option back then. Are still perpetual licences available? If so, its the best way i think, u dont even have to update if u dont need new features. How much is the sub cost?
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-03 07:22:02 +0000 UTCThanks buddy!!
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-03 07:20:46 +0000 UTCJust a quick question.. How do you guys pay for X-Particles? Is it better to go with a subscription or rather buy it (with some kind of black Friday deal)? I have previously used a monthly subscription which I could cancel at anytime, but it is a bit pricey. Sorry to go off subject. Thanks!!
James Shannon
2020-09-03 07:19:04 +0000 UTCNice！！！！！
老身技不如人
2020-09-03 03:55:26 +0000 UTCThank you!
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-02 21:03:45 +0000 UTCPerfectly balanced, as all things should be.
Reda Izo
2020-09-02 21:01:22 +0000 UTCThanks a lot buddy!
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-02 19:26:01 +0000 UTCThats was great!
Mikhail
2020-09-02 19:21:27 +0000 UTCThanks! Bit confusing i jump around a lot in this tut, hopefully u find it easy to watch! I had to do lots of rnd and see what works and what doesnt besides the basic setup.
Thanos Kagkalos
2020-09-02 19:14:56 +0000 UTCYesssss been so stoked for this one to come out 🔥 Thank you!
Jacob Pernell
2020-09-02 18:13:18 +0000 UTC
