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happycow
Jun '09

How would I go about animating an egg being fried (sunny side up) in a frying pan? Suppose I have the pan and eggs modeled (with polygons), the egg starts out raw, so the white part of the egg is clearish, as the egg is getting cooked, it fulls into white and the eggs starts bubbling. I watched a bunch of you tube videos of this, how would I be able to "fill the egg with white" and have the animation of bubbles on the surface of the egg?

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joojaa
Jun '09

QUOTE(HappyCow @ 06/19/09, 01:01 AM) [snapback]309774[/snapback]
I watched a bunch of you tube videos of this, how would I be able to "fill the egg with white" and have the animation of bubbles on the surface of the egg?

Animate a shader

8 days later
dave-hudson
Jun '09

Are you a freelancer? Are you making these eggs for a client? Why don't you figure it out on your own. You're gonna tap other peoples brain and get TOLD how to do it and get paid big. Mean while there are people out of work. I hate people like you.

joojaa
Jun '09

Well, sometimes its still perfectly valid. I mean often times the person who answers gets more valuable in the process which evens things out. Certainly most aswers are just pawing the way to specific solution. So answers dont necceserily do the job at all.

So its perfectly valid to ask, another thing is if one happens to get a solution. Most likely one gets a push on the way instead. There's usually a long way form idea to result.

happycow
Jun '09

QUOTE(roundeye @ 06/29/09, 07:50 AM) [snapback]310402[/snapback]
Are you a freelancer? Are you making these eggs for a client? Why don't you figure it out on your own. You're gonna tap other peoples brain and get TOLD how to do it and get paid big. Mean while there are people out of work. I hate people like you.

No and No, I'm a student, and this isn't even an specific assignment, i am just trying to do small animations for my reel involving "simple events", things which are complex to animate (for me) and also for me to learn. I also just want to have things for my reel. I came up with the egg idea cause I figured it would look cool and It would force me to do things like maybe particles and such. My school has Maya 2009 which might allow me to use things like N particles but because summer is here, and getting to the labs is harder for me during the summer, I have to use the learning edition of Maya, which they don't have a learning edition of Maya 2009.

I also was interesting in using the softimage Mod tool to build up my reel with. That ICE thing might allow me to do this egg thing, I saw some videos that gave me some ideas how to approach the frying of the egg, but not actually the liquid of the egg falling to the pan. however the Mod tool seems to be for students and hobbyist to make games with and I don't think it allows rendering of videos.

I also looked into Houdini apprentice, and i'm slowly (very slowly) getting the hang of it, but I really don't think i'm going to get it done in this program

9 days later
ian-minshull
Jul '09

Actually one thing you may want to take a look at using is Realflow. You can create the whole simulation creating the yolk and whites of the egg. Actually I think there is a tutorial or at least some good reference to just the sort of animation your trying to achieve on the realflow website. Check out this link to see exactly the egg simulation im talking about.

http://www.realflow.com/n\_cs\_eggexplosion.htm10

In Realflow you can have the egg break open, the liquidy part comes out with a yellow yolk inside. Once it hit's the ground plane have the particles harden up to simulate it's being cooked. After your happy with the way the geometry looks in RF. Export the mesh to Maya for texturing and lighting. Or you can do all the texturing in Realflow.

If your dead set on using Maya I'd look into making the egg yolk out of Ncloth. You can have the yolk be very soft and squishy and free flowing.

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roundeye Posted 06/29/09, 07:50 AM
Are you a freelancer? Are you making these eggs for a client? Why don't you figure it out on your own. You're gonna tap other peoples brain and get TOLD how to do it and get paid big. Mean while there are people out of work. I hate people like you.

Don't ever be afraid to ask questions or how to achieve certain looks. We are all in a CG community and learning new and different techniques to make our art is all part of the process. "Roundeye" lighten up man... It's people like you that are greedy and don't want to share ideas or thoughts on how you made your art. Tapping into other peoples brains is called learning. Just like people go to school to tap into a professors brain. It's no different dude.