DavidKahlVFX
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Art-direct the Railsystem
🕑 Added 2018-10-25 07:29:16 +0000 UTC Hellow fellow Houdini comrades,I can't tell you all how thankful I am that there are indeed people who whill see this post at this early stage of my patreon. But I can't thank you all day we have descision to make! ;-)
I am progressing nicely with my RnD project but there are some issues I am currently facing. And it's not a "how to solve it" problem - more a "what the hell do I do with this" situation.
But first let me give you a status update where it is going at the moment. I already have a system that allows me to take any terrain, draw a curve very loosely on it and I get a rail on a specific height. That rail then follows the curve over the terrain no matter what's in the way. Am I over a cliff - I switch to a different mode. Is there a mountain in the way - create a tunnel for the rail to go through it.
Since chapter one will cover the general concept I want to mainly create the fundamental data you would need to create more complex structures. Many of it is already in place but I have to answer a mainly artistic question.
A question where I can use your help. As you can see in the next image we have different kinds of bridge requiries. Here I tested each possible holder position to see where the ground would be to far away.
That showed that I need to find a way to connect between hold points, bridge points, tunnel points and all variants in between.
The question is - how to solve this situation? The Rail is high above the terrain but also makes a curve. An interesting problem. After some research I found that this could be solve by only a few general approaches.
The options
- a sci fi approach with some kind of floating plattform mechanism
- a Tower with hanging cables like in the image below
- big massive towers that can reach the ground no matter how big the distance is
- fuck physics (some kind of light but nice looking solution that would never hold in reality, and yeah that means floating sci fi is reality goddammit)
So what do you guys think? Which is the way to go?
Cheers
Dave
