Melting Chocolate

[palinky]

Heya.

I am really struggling to make chocolate pour over an IceCream. its for an Advrtisment and tinme is running out. All i gotta do is make chocolate pour onto an Ice Cream and solidify near the end of the sequence.'

I've tried Blendshape, Sculpt deformers, Loads of clusters everything i can think of, but i am having no success. Is ther soem plugin i can use? or a really cool way to make it look good.

Any help will save my backside.

[dunkelzahn]

Particles or Fluid will save your backside. A particle system of blobby particles/metaballs (your chocolate) and and a rigid body (your ice cream) miiiiiiight just work. I suggest you buy the Learning Maya 7 Special Effects Handbook, there are some pretty detailed articles about the principles of blobby surfaces. Searching the dynamics forum for these keywords may be helpful. The manual also has the basic principles of particles, rigid bodys and metaballs in it.

Now, go go go, get out there and do your job, oh and remember, no sleep till deadline!

[palinky]

hehe just gave it a shot. the client is being really picky, so we might go for the Real Slow (Real Flow) solution. Those Partis are much nicer than the Maya ones.

[kurianos3d]

Hi

You have a good solustion for making this

try with glu3d plugin..its will help you

you can get the trail version from

http://3daliens.com/glu3D/

regds

o.S.k

[jtk77]

Real flow does what its made to do. Good luck with it. It can be slow, and annoying but it'll do it