Say hello to Volumetric Material! now with blend file.

Artwork Blender Tests
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Phew! Voxel imitation.
Volumetric material in cube. Hope you like! :slight_smile:

Volumetric Clouds texture:

Volumetric Musgrave texture:

Volumetric Stucci texture:

And here’s the blend file:
http://uploader.polorix.net//files/95/VolMaterial.blend

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Looks pretty good!

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Hello Volumetric Material, it’s nice to meet you :slight_smile:

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Amazing…
HOW did you accomplish that wonderful piece of BlenderPower?!
This thread hereby gains my approval :cool:

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Incredible, please tell us how you did it!

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Thanks all of you! I Added some more examples to top.
Framedworld: I just imitated voxels and played with materials/textures :slight_smile: Im planning to make a short tutorial for this. So keep an eye on this thread! :slight_smile:

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Okei, those look sweet. I’ve been trying to do similiar things in my school project, but nothing that nice has happened. Looking forward for your tutorial.

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I’ve been messing around with this too, but to no avail:D . Please keep developing your technique!

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i want that! gimme, gimme, gimme! :smiley:

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Pretty goooooood!!

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Wow, did you use tons of planes close together and material IPO’s or is it a new technique?

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OFFTOPIC IGNORE
CD is back! Hey man, where have you been?
ONTOPIC
The movie isnt working for me, mind posting a frame grab or something?

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About the movie do you have the latest flash player installed?

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Um…Im pretty sure I do…
yeah, I do

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:eek: So cool. Is it legal?

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Hey thanks all of you again :slight_smile:
Cyborg Dragon: Yeah, exactly … not tons of planes just 123 faces :slight_smile:
Free_ality: Hmm… not sure whats wrong with your flash player but can you see other youtube videos? Im too lazy and busy in this weekend to make a picture and upload it to another pic sharing site but i hope you get youtbube work. :slight_smile:

I have lots of interest of this technique and i will develop more of it. Also I have lots of ideas how this techinuqe would develop with few lines of code (i think). Im not a coder but using vector blur with some modifications it would be fantastic effect for having volumetric material without having face kind of artifacts. :slight_smile: I will post here my experiements + blend file also; and suggestions of improving blender (mayby someone gets motivation to code some volumetric object type in blender :)). I will get back in to this on monday - wednesday.

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Wow, I read about a similar way to achieve volumetric effects, but the planes just didn’t work for me. I surely did something wrong. A tutorial would explain a lot… :wink:

Looks great and very realistic!

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I thought so, because I’ve actually tried that myself once, Can take a while to render though.

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Wait, how does this work?

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I think you make a bunch of planes lined up to make a ‘volumetric’. then you set their colour and alpha to a three-dimensional, volumetric procedural texture. Then you assign the texture mapping to an empty, and move the empty through 3d space to make the texture’s 3d co-ordinates change.