quick one had fun playing with shaders & cop noise on this
tips:
- swirly fluids in COPs: fractal noise UV mode low roughness -> pos of another fractal noise
- for melting meshes, instead of vdbmeshing the sim points, better to point deform the original source mesh by sim (if no extreme movements). you get uvs for free
- blur P & N for extra smooth. Blur vertex normals by split branch, blurring P, calc normals on vertex, copy vertex N back to branch.

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comp.png (892.4 KB)
sop.png (1.1 MB)

Day26:

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Day26_Melt_Final_CB.png (419.0 KB)
Day26_Melt_WIP_CB.png (1.0 MB)

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render.png (1.2 MB)
1.png (3.5 MB)

Reused the texture from Rock day but not much time

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mardini25_day26-melt.png (2.0 MB)
Mardini25-Day26-melt_screencapture.png (4.4 MB)

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melt26_finalcomp.png (1.7 MB)
melt_vellumsimulation.PNG (1.3 MB)
melt_fullsetup.PNG (1.4 MB)

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poison.png (1.2 MB)
2025-03-27_05-58-00.png (834.6 KB)
2025-03-27_05-57-30.png (804.7 KB)

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Day26_Melt_FinalRender.png (10.6 MB)
sceenViewport_Day26_Melt.PNG (1.3 MB)

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mardini_day26_dottayk.png (1011.0 KB)
mardini_day26_dottayk_network.png (1.6 MB)

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26Melt_screen0.png (3.0 MB)
26Melt_screen1.png (1.8 MB)
26Melt_screen3.png (1.5 MB)
26Melt.png (5.0 MB)
26Melt2.png (3.2 MB)

Mardini 2025 – Day 26 – Melt

Steam pouring through the pipes now, flowing into the glacier field.

The pipe didn’t just flow — it spoke - and the land listened.

The Snow came early, who knew.

see you soon,
– alan/organic

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2025_mardini_day_26_melt_graph.jpg (1.2 MB)
2025_mardini_day_26_melt_karma_render.png (2.5 MB)

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26_Melt.png (493.3 KB)

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26_Melt.png (1.2 MB)
Enter_a_filename.png (1.9 MB)

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d26 melt.png (2.6 MB)
d26 melt network.png (1.2 MB)

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26_dops_melt_mkgis.png (1.2 MB)
26_dops_melt_mkgis_screenshot.png (1.6 MB)

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day26_melt.png (1.1 MB)
day26_net.png (630.9 KB)

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mardini2025_day26_melt.png (1.4 MB)
mardini2025_day26_file.png (923.5 KB)