Create animation with explosion

Support Animation and Rigging
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Hello,

Please forgive me if I missed a thread that has discussed this; I really only conducted cursory searches.

How would I go about creating a several second animation where a fighter jet fires a missile at another fighter jet, causing it to explode, using only one camera?

I assume I would use IPO curves to move the two fighter jets, and then at a certain point, have the missile diverge from the first fighter jet, again using IPO curves. However, how would I get the second fighter jet to explode and disappear once the missile hits it?

Should I render separate stages and use the VSE to make a single animation?

Thank you.

samcan

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Never tried this sort of thing, but here’s what I think…

Planes and missles could use paths to control them. Here’s a link as to how to do it with the camera, just sub the planes for the camera in the example. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro/Flying_Through_A_Canyon

As for making the plane explode, here’s two links.
http://www.blendernation.com/fracture-script-tutorial/
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Modifiers/Mesh/Explode

Hope this helps,
Randy

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Is there a bug in the 2.5 explode modifier, or am I missing something ?

If I create an object I can explode the faces in 2.49b and have them fly off, retaining the original shape of each face, from the original object. I can’ seem to do this in 2.5 … the best I can get is billboards.
(I create a particle system then add the explode modifier).

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I’d use the VSE or an image plane to superimpose an explosion on top of it too. This site has some really good free explosion animations: http://www.detonationfilms.com/missionstatement.htm

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Thanks! Sorry for my late reply.