pyrocluster cinema 4d 9 Manual Do Utilizador

8 REFERENCE

PYROCLUSTER

Creating a

PyroCluster

Effect

To get you started as quickly

as possible, here are the
essential steps to produce a
PyroCluster effect.

Setting up a PyroCluster effect is a simple process of making two special new materials

in the Material manager and then assigning those materials to the appropriate objects
in the Object manager.

- Choose Objects > Scene > Environment to create an Environment object.

- In the Material manager, choose File > PyroCluster > PyroCluster - VolumeTracer

to create a new Volume Tracer.

- Drag the Volume Tracer from the Material manager and drop it onto the

Environment object in the Object manager.

The Volume Tracer can be assigned to any object and it will control the rendering

of all PyroCluster effects encompassed by that object (see ‘Settings for the Volume

Tracer Material’ later in this chapter). Here we are assigning the Volume Tracer to

an Environment object and you will often do that because the Environment object
encompasses the entire scene.

- In the Material manager, choose File > PyroCluster > PyroCluster to create a

new PyroCluster shader.

- Assign the PyroCluster shader to the relevant particle system (drag it from the

Material manager and drop it onto the particle emitter in the Object manager).

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PyroCluster works best with a total particle count of around 200–600. To

obtain a larger effect, instead of increasing the particle count you should
increase the size of the puffs and make them more dense. You need high
particle counts only for fast moving particle systems or when the particles
disperse into a large volume.

Assign just these two

PyroCluster ‘materials’ and

you’re up and running.

Once the materials are assigned, creating the desired effect is achieved by adjusting
various settings in the Material Editor or Attribute manager (see ‘Settings for the
PyroCluster shader’ later in this chapter).