This is one my first blends (that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it) and that’s why it’s so basic. It’s of a water rocket that me, thor and lightning are going to build so we can get a day off-school and if we win a prize!
I still need to add a fin and tailplane and some better textures. I also need to add a water jet coming out of the back can someone tell me how to do that please. Any other C&C welcome.
Errr… You did this in 5 minutes didn’t you? Spend a little more time over it, we like quality artwork! But anyway, I can see where your going with that pic and I think it’ll look good real soon!
I did spend uite a lot of time on it like half an hour doing the wing.I was quite impressed with the aerofoil.
id chuck subsurf on the aerofoil
make sure you have OSA on 16 too.
i did have the osa on 16.
here’s and update with a tail fin and subsurf on. I don’t think i’m going to bother with a tail plane but i do want water spraying out of the back so can someone please tell me how to do it.
try like using partivles or something.
how do you use particles
These websites have tutorials on using Particle effects, you can modify them to fit your need:
http://kahuna.clayton.edu/~jbrooks/
http://www.geocities.com/blengine/tutorials.html
http://reblended.com/tutorials.php
Check out the tutorial list in Questions and Answers. There is a ton of tuts on how to use particles.
thanks i’ll try that and and hope fully it will work and then all it needs is textures.
Ok - I’m not reviving this thread, I have a picture that is for the Water Rocket Challenge. I thought a bi-plane might be a good idea, so here it is:
the end of the bottle should be more aerodynamic. and the other endshould be smaler becuase the water that is coming out of the back will be coming out of the neck of the bottle. Nice aerofoil though
Yeah, the picture’s at a weird angle so you can’t see how I made it smaller at the neck of the bottle.
Hi, I found a good set of .Blend files that should help you with your water jets.
http://www.centralsource.com/blender/effects.htm
Then click on the ‘Liquids’ link, then download the green goo file 1/2 way down the page.
If you are not able to workout how the liquid fx have been created, use Blender’s Append function.
Append the objects from this liquid file into your .Blend file(Shift & F1), then change the texture from green goo to water. Place the emitter at the rear of your craft, and hey presto. Some tweaking will be needed to make the dupliverts go in the direction you want.
By the way the file links above were found in the list of current tutorials here in Elysiun’s Questions and Answers Forum.
Sonix.
yeah that will do nicely but we want it to spray rather than dripping.
lightning: where’s your entry?
Sheesh! Coming, coming…
The rocket would shoot up then the two wings of the glider would come out. It would glide down and land. In theroy.
water spray is simple
1 get urself a single vert.
2go to anim tab
3 click and drag on the frop down button that says build i think as defult make that particle
4 click on static
5 at the bottom there are a set of sliders arround the headding force, make sure ur model is level or it might look a little weird. im guessing yours is how i would to it so you would drag the X slider along until you have a natural looking spray, fiddle with the total slider near the top until you have a good concentration.
5 finally set the matirial on it to halo and fiddle with the colours and sized of the halos until you have a cool water spary…
quick and dirty but that is how i would do it… hope it helps…
Yes but in theory there is no difference between theory and practice but in practice there is 
try making the halos smaller that would be better and water isnt really blue make i white like a sort of spray
