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[challenge entry] Couldn't be bothered to build a pond so I got a sack of air-trout from a guy down the pub...

Click for bigger full version on youtube - a whole 15 seconds of fun packed fishy fun... now with genuine fish soundtrack.


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(Pandemonium in my underpants, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:09, archived)
# Today's speciality is trout a la creme.
Very nice addition to our fishy evening
(I helped save b3ta! Yo 'Ho of Charlie mass-market saucetrepreneur, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:11, archived)
# great stuff
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:15, archived)
# Expertly done
Is this with Blender's new tracker? You have done an excellent camera solve top work.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:18, archived)
# Yes it's with Blender
This was the best solve I've had yet. I have lots that fail badly and some that solve well except for a little stutter here and there which messes it all up!
(Pandemonium in my underpants, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:21, archived)
# Yes my hedgehog solve was almost a complete mess but I used AfterEffects to fudge most of it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9T_FJGzJKk&list=UURNZkSxp117mZL_nT2DSlWA&index=5&feature=plcp

Luckily because the camera was pretty shaky it covered up the bad tracking :D
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:24, archived)
# I remember your hedgehog.
Something that's moving will help too if there's some jittery bits. But anything static that suddenly jumps sideways or tilts on one frame looks really weird.
(Pandemonium in my underpants, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:31, archived)
# Absolutely and you will have to show me how you did your boids too
the trout models are great and they have that wonderful tail flick to really sell their realism - I actually thought it was video footage composited onto the scene.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:33, archived)
# Ah.. the boids were "fun".
Blender's lack of documentation, and out of date documentation is a major pain with the new version. I was tearing my hair out at times!
But after lots of youtube tutorials, half-correct docs and some fiddling about I got there in the end.
(Pandemonium in my underpants, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:40, archived)
# here's one tutorial I came across but never followed up
manuell3d.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/tutorial-creating-a-bird-flock/#more-251
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 23:01, archived)
# Yes I read that one
But it's not true about having to have the animated bird on an active layer. It just has to have a layer in common with the boids particle emitter, but that layer can be off.
If you look at the source file for this tutorial the multiple/grouped animated birds are visible in the camera view and look weird - a giant multi-winged thing. But he seems to have removed them from the video on the web.

Also for mine I had to point the models in the positive Y direction, not X to make them the right way around when they moved. This was in edit mode. It's no good just turning it.

But that's a pretty good tutorial, that's actually for 2.6 and has all about the boids, animating, and using groups. Which is pretty much all you need. Give it a go!

You can also bung in force fields, wind, goal objects and collision barriers. All good fun!
(Pandemonium in my underpants, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 0:39, archived)
# Yes I aim to give it a go.
I started out with a basic animated model but it turned to a mess and I mustn't have followed a step right or something, probably from what you are saying it was because of the orientation and not visible but in the same active layer. I will endeavour to worth through problems and get something working, glad to see a few b3tans have gone the way of Blender for a free application and with so many free tutorials it should be a lot more popular than it is.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 8:39, archived)
# Yesterday I started working with Blender, it's blown my tiny mind with its incredibly complex interface
I can see how rewarding it is when you eventually get it right and render something worth rendering. I have yet to do this.
(I helped save b3ta! Shlvng, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 1:38, archived)
# Yay! I like these airfish.
Last year's baby crows are just starting to build a nest. I was outside just now and they were happily floating around me. I try my best to keep a bunch of scraps out for them. So they like me. It's somehow related to airfish.
(I helped save b3ta! cowcat Bituminous squeegee, Fri 13 Apr 2012, 22:53, archived)
# oooh, nicely done
(I helped save b3ta! revolution now 👊, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 0:20, archived)
# air-trout! thats another name for a fart aint it?
(I helped save b3ta! skullbuggery uh huh! kissed a cow!, Sat 14 Apr 2012, 9:23, archived)