toqer

6th August 2007 00:35 UTC

Preset idea, steel balls in a speaker cone.
Saw this in a video the other night, thought it'd be a cool preset idea.

The video had a bunch of shiny steel balls (like pachinko sized balls) inside of a subwoofer speaker cone. Every time there was a bass hit, the balls would all go rolling around hitting each other.

It looked cool as hell, i'd love to have something like that as an AVS preset.

J.Melo

6th August 2007 20:47 UTC

Good idea. Sounds like something that can be done. I'll look into that.

Yathosho

6th August 2007 23:08 UTC

yeah, post it when it's done :p

J.Melo

7th August 2007 15:33 UTC

Sure, but don't think it'll be done soon. I'm kinda sick right now, and I don't want to spend much time on the computer; just more time in bed.

Yathosho

7th August 2007 15:54 UTC

i meant toqer actually :p

Nanakiwurkz

8th August 2007 22:17 UTC

Hmm this sounds like megabuf work.
an idea for a preset to check out that matchs the description of this idea would be Pak-9's Droplets preset.
It uses music instead of bass hits to move its particles but the principle is still the same.

The louder the bass hit the higher the balls go.

J.Melo

9th August 2007 06:16 UTC

Yathosho: seems like Toqer is implying that it would be a good idea for someone else to do.

Yeah, that's the first preset I thought of when this was mentioned...I don't see any megabuf work that needs to be done, though. I guess it depends on how many particles you want to render. It might be better to do each metal ball in it's own SSC, though. It'll look nicer if you give it some specular highlights with proper lighting.

Warrior of the Light

9th August 2007 10:23 UTC

Originally posted by J.Melo
Yathosho: seems like Toqer is implying that it would be a good idea for someone else to do.