[Tsunami]

Sure, here's the scenefile :


I'm using Fprime-LW will probably ask for the Fprime-shader>don't mind if it won't load.

Greetz,

T

[Tsunami]

The zip above are the files only, if you have any questions or need a tutorial, just say so and I see what I can come up with.


C&C welcome.

T

[davie563]

Hi, got a problem guys wondering if u guys know whats up :p

cheers !

i recently noticed this purring noise coming from my PC im not sure what it is but its gets loud sometimes and other times its not there, it sounds like a Fan problem, i looked at my local hardware shop and say that it would cost me about £25 to replace both my fans, only thing is im not sure how they are connected and also if it is hard to do, its looks complicated and there are lots of wires going into the main fan which is also the main power supply :{ is this a big job, or are they just simple connectors much like a USB socket ?

cheers for help

[Sir_Pro_View]

is the sound coming from the Power Supply? or the case Fans if you have any? If its just the power Supply fan.. I mean you can change it out..you'll have to open up the Power Supply though. Simply just cut the two wires and attach it to the new fan. Or better yet. Get a new Power Supply. I don't know what the Prices are over there but here in the U.S you can pick up a cheap 400W for around $40 US. Its not hard at all to put in a new Power Supply.

[sake]

If its new fans there pretty cheap .. about £10 each and easy to install , but you can get a new PSU 650 W about £25 which is also easy to intall.

[davie563]

How easy, i mean i dont like the sound of cutting wires i thought it would be like we connectors at the end of the wires, like the sort u get when fitting a radio in your car ??

[sake]

its alot simpler than a car radio :p atually those things hurt, just depends on how old your system is. There should be connectors connected to ether your Motherboard or to somthing eles like a mini fan controller. just unplug that, then fit your new and plug it into where the old ones went. Simple.

[Mark]

You'll find that most fan connections these days are pretty standard. Most case/CPU cooler fans plug into the motherboard by way of a standard 3 pin connector, or will sit in line with one of the myriad drive connector cables by way of a molex plug.

Basically, if its the fan inside the PSU, then I'd look at getting a new PSU - they don't cost a packet and are relatively easy to fit.

[davie563]

thx alot for the help, ill take a few pics of my PC later to show u the way it is set up and u can tell me what to do

[Sir_Pro_View]

Davie the only reason why you'd have to cut wires for the fan inside your Power Supply is because its hardwired to the board inside the Power Supply. That is why most times when you read the lable on the Power Supply it will say no fixable parts inside. I take mine apart alot to give it a good cleaning cuzz I live in the Desert and it gets major dusty here which takes a beating on my Fans and tends to make things hot inside faster then most.

ALL Power Supply unit come with connectors to conect to your motherboard along with connectors for your harddrive and whatever else you have inside.

Its your standard female to male white plastic connectors you can't go wrong pluging them in.

Now some of your older Power Supplies going back to like the 286, 386 and 486 and some older Pentium systems. LOL Had the female and male but you could put them in backwards.. Which if you did.. would fry your system if you turned the power on.

The new ones you don't have to. It kind of has a locking system to them.

If its just your case fan that is making the noise. Then as Mark said most come with a 3 pin connector always make sure the red wire goes to the +side you should see it writen on the mother board. Some fans come with the stardard 5 pin connectors the same ones that get plug into your harddrive and CDROM. Just take one of the remaining wire connector from the power supply and plug it into the connector to the fan and you'll be set to go.


Greg

[davie563]

im really strugling with the smoke for my rocket, i found this site which looked great but the guy is using ver 4 of lightwave and i find it near impossible to follow, i really need help on smoke effects for rocket take off, anybody got any links or could talk me throu it,

cheers

this is the website for the tut i was trying but found it hard to follow

http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages...rvoxels_20.htm

[Mark]

Davie,

I've put together this small scene that kind of demonstrates the technique (although it really sucks - hypervoxels are't really my forte), it's based on the techniques shown in the tute that you're following.

Essentially, once the ground, rocket and the exhaust light are placed, I added an HV emitter (through the FXBrowser - Look on the Utilities/Plugins/Additional menu in Layout) and parented it to the rocket. Then, just played with the particle settings until I'd got something looking vaguely rocket like.

Next, also through the FXBrowser, selected the ground plane and added a collision object to it to stop the exhaust simply blasting through the ground plane.

Finally, in the volumetrics panel, I added the hypervoxels3 plugin and attached that to the particle emitter, then played around with the texture until I'd got something vaguely exhaust-like.

Feel free to pull the scene apart, and if you've got any questions, just ask.

[Mark]

and here's the render in DivX

[davie563]

Mark thats amzing, thanks, im going to study that and see how u got it, cheers


about my comp problem i found out what was wrong it is the power supply that is drumming, he is a pic of what i found out and need help with

[davie563]

ive been muckin about with the flame part in lightwave, what u think of the flame,