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Day25_Flood_FinalRender.png (6.7 MB)
sceenViewport_Day25_Flood.PNG (835.9 KB)

Flood

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Flood.png (4.3 MB)
Flood_nodes.png (4.1 MB)

poor laptop was struggling with the sims, had to go for a still.
takeaways from this one:
- sop flips are not bad. all attributes are toggled on the FLIP container rather than solver e.g age / id.
- there is no flip sop for pumping vel. Instead create a fogvolume & use volume_source DOP pull mode.
- heat geodesic -> measure SOP gradient will get you a nice flow field vector to guide liquid
- custom meshing with vdbs offers way more control and results than particlefluidsurface
- pointreplicate + noise along v + attribblur P can help cheaply upres sims

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comp.png (2.0 MB)
lops.png (1.2 MB)
sops.png (1.1 MB)

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shelter2.png (604.0 KB)
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2025-03-26_03-41-34.png (1.0 MB)

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flood.rop_image1.0001.jpg (703.2 KB)
sops.png (1.7 MB)

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flood.jpg (416.4 KB)
screenshoit.png (1.5 MB)

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desrosiersm_spectraOcean_v01.jpg (76.0 KB)
Capture d’écran 2025-03-21 152017.png (494.5 KB)
Capture d’écran 2025-03-21 151959.png (948.5 KB)

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damoursr_flood25_v01.jpeg (403.6 KB)
Capture d’écran, le 2025-03-20 à 13.19.43.png (1.9 MB)

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flood25_finalcomp2.png (3.1 MB)
flood_vellum_baseshape.PNG (992.3 KB)
flood_vellum_hands.PNG (1.0 MB)
flood_fullsetup.PNG (583.7 KB)

Too many crashes and blue screens today...

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mardini25_day25-flood.png (1.6 MB)
Mardini25-Day25-flood_screencapture.png (3.7 MB)

Day25: Wash away

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Day25_Flood.png (3.4 MB)
Day25_Network.png (1.4 MB)

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render.png (2.9 MB)
1.png (4.1 MB)

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Mardini2025_Day25_Flood.jpg (104.6 KB)
2025-03-26.png (1.0 MB)

Mardini 2025 - Day 25 – Flood (VFX: DOPS)

The terrain is the stage now with all the recent groundwork paying off: layered heightfields, basic textured terrain materials, and camera-ready ridges to catch the light just right.

This is what's left of an attempt to use this hose and flow to knock down a structure, but RBDPackedObjects kept hanging my machine, I'm sure it's something I did wrong, oh well, no more time for this.

Anyway, just fluid surface meshed and lit like an angry god’s signature. This was more about motion implied than motion observed: mild head radiating off the form (needed some heat mirage in the air too, I suppose) and the feeling that something far away has begun breaking loose.

I didn’t go overboard with chaos — just enough to catch the soul of a "flood" in a single frame. Still missing more atmospherics but the silhouette reads and the energy is there.

Call it a slow-motion scream.

See you yesterday
-alan

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2025_mardini_day_25_flood_dops_karma_render.png (6.8 MB)
2025_mardini_day_25_flood_dops_meh_graph.jpg (863.3 KB)

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25Flood_Screen.png (2.4 MB)
untitled.png (900.1 KB)
25Flood.png (4.1 MB)

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mardini_day25.png (804.5 KB)
mardini_day25_network.png (976.6 KB)

I wonder what's at the bottom

Edit: Whoops, forgot to attach the render, I didn't do a great job with the flip sim anyways

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dop_tree.png (1005.6 KB)
sop_tree.png (1.2 MB)
stage_tree.png (780.3 KB)
suspicious_blood_hole.png (1.2 MB)

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fLOODD.png (694.4 KB)
Screenshot 2025-03-26 001347.png (41.3 KB)
Screenshot 2025-03-26 001407.png (82.5 KB)
Screenshot 2025-03-26 001416.png (58.5 KB)

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Day25_LightH.tif (14.1 MB)
Day25_flood_Nodes1.png (3.8 MB)
Day25_flood_Nodes2.png (3.6 MB)
Day25_flood_Nodes3.png (3.6 MB)
day25_desktop.png (11.1 MB)

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25_Flood_chewypixels.png (1.7 MB)
25_Flood_screenshot_01.png (5.3 MB)
25_Flood_screenshot_02.png (3.0 MB)