Today I did the animation for the Tornado. Previously I had the Tornado have its shape but it was looking too straight. The tutorial taught on how to make the body of the tornado to twirl on a spot.
In the beginning when I had the points of the lines grouped, I then connected to a "Point" node and chose the "topPoints" group to animate the movement by giving it expressions to the X and Z axis to the position. I did not fully understand the expression though.
$TX + noise($TX + $FF*2.5*0.001, $TY + $PT *20,$TZ) * 5
I did not understand why was $PT*20 added to $TY. And did not understand why was current frame multipied two times. $FF*2.5*0.001
I later added a lattice so that the tornado will inherit the shape of the curve.
Deformation of curve
Final Outcome
After the animation, I continued on the advanced shape for the tornado. The purpose for this is to allow an easier shape control of the tornado. Still currently in progress.
Today I went down with a heavy flu and was affecting the progress. Hope to be better next week, till then.
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