How to make specials effects with blender (V.2.37a)

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Hello,

Still in the more better to understand concerns the things, I would like to know how to realize special effects with blender as in terminator 2, for I am confronted to this problem, I have beautiful to look for but no idea; please help me.

Thanks

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This is a very open question - so many answers are possible.

Have you go a more specific goal?

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You can use raytracing to make a liquid metal material. Just read up on it in the documentation.

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You can use particles to make “goodlooking” explosions.

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These tuts might help

http://www.centralsource.com/blender/effects.htm

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http://alourdelle.free.fr/fr/otherlinks.htm

There is a “liquidmetalA4.pdf” to be found here

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you can build the liquid t2000 in blender with a chrome surface and morph targets. for pyro effects you need a fx system and they still donot match real explosions which are often composited into the film. the particle system in blender is not usable for this kind of quality.

claas