Nature Tech Demo

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Originally Posted by midnight_heist

Yeah, why haven't I seen moving lava yet? That would be cool.

But a tornado would top anything. :hero:

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i believe lava beta has already been published a few days back along with it is a basic tornado setup, which really works just need more polishing.

Thanks for that catch greygoose, I was about to say that.

Please someone tell me what I need to do to make a spiraling look for this tornado! It is killing me I try to emit a barber shop screw down effect, and it gets caught up and breaks since the tornado changes angles and speed and direction so much. I'm about to give up on the tornado - or just polish it up as is and call it cartoon like, where everything else thus far has been a shot at more real effects.
sigh:(

PS-it's not called Lava Demo anymore - it's Disaster Demo @LuckyShot

Ok, just tweaked the tornado a little bit, looks a lot better, but still no spiral effect, more of a windy busy scary effect. Again, the tornado and lava flow are seen on Disaster Beta @ LuckyShot

You could have a flat cardboard tornado.
In the background layer, have a large circle spinning, with only the V shapes part visible. If the BG circle is big enough, it would look like it is spinning. :)
Then you could emit the leaves/cows/etc. ;)

I would do it with alot of emitters on and invisible rubber V shapeconnected to a wobble bolt... have some small explosives stirring things up and giving it the swirly debris look, and emitt angular jets of gas in a criss crossing zig zag pattern... and of course tons of wind sounds hooked up to a piston box mag switch to keep them constantly making noise.

You could even have a series of emitters up the center emitting paintballs of different sizes, starting at the bottom and getting bigger as it climbs to the top... if paintballs are emitted fast enough in a central location they form a link and start to warp and spread... a narrow shaping on something like that could create a nice funnel effect. You just have to capture the right color ball and sticker it for the proper colors that will fit with the effect... only problem is that gas can only be captured as default green.

This would obviously destroy the thermometer, but would be cool to see.

Yeah lost all hope on the thermo a long time ago