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From: Gabe Evans <gevans@panix.com>
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Subject: Re: mercury surface
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Daniel Dugour wrote:
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> At 07:47 13-04-96 -0400, Leonardo Copello wrote:
> > How can I do a mercury surface, with liquid appareance?
> >
I recently made a blobby mercury button for a multimedia project. The specs were to make
it 'blob' up and down when depressed, oscillating a bit before settling down again.
I first made the 'blob' using half a tesselated sphere and the magnet tool.
Save undeformed blob.
Then deform it to the depressed position, again with the magnet.
Save as a morph target.
In layout, setup the morph, and use the metamorph envelope to make the wobbling motion.
Off the top of my head, it was 100& reflective, 0% diffuse, and I think I used the VT4000
logo screen as the reflection map. I think ultimately I'll use a screen grab as the
reflection map so it looks like the button is sitting on the screen.
It came out really well, and also looks good in regular shiny surfaces.
