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Hello guys, today I will be showing you how to make Shattering text. You will need a plugin called Thrausi
So first go into Mograph
And click moText for an easy 3D text
Now choose the text you want. I just chose my Youtube Username
You do not need to do this I just did
Now choose your font
I am using Minecrafter3
Now Change the Depth to (recommened)80
Click on your text
Now go to the Thrausi plugin and click the first one
Choose how many pieces you want (the more pieces you have the longer the render)
Go to the "Dynamic" tab and click "Immediately" and change it to "On collision"
Click break now
DON'T DELETE ANYTHING, but you can group them
Now add a cube
Again you do not have to do this I just want to
Now align it so it's right above the text and make it thin and not to thick
Add "Dynamic Tag"
And change the mass to "custom mass"
Feel free to change the mass to your what you want
And that is what happends, but i'm sure you don't want it to fall through the floor of nothing
So add a plane (or a floor)
If a place size it to 9999cm on X and press enter and Z will change automatically if not change that to 9999cm
Choose "New Matrial"
Double click on the New Matrial
Choos your colour I like white in the animation
Choose reflection, Change to what you want
I recommend not going 100% reflection, it slows down rendering and does not look good
That is how it looks so far
Drag the New Matrial to the plane (or floor)
Better but not done
Make a new Matrial
Choose Transperancy and turn off specular
Drag to Cube
Ta Da! but we are still not done
Copy and paste the plane (or create a new one if you used floor
And rotate it 90 degrees on P
Move it back a bit
10 times better
But not what you wanted right?
Go to your first plane
click on "Dynamics Body"
On the Dynamics tab go to trigger and click on "Immediatley" to "At Velocity Peak"
Same for the 2nd plane
Much better
Be warned this is 3 sec. long you can change it but it will invole keyframes
Go to render settings ad do what I do
Save it to where you want
Don't have to do this part
You can add these but even though it may look good it slows down rander and on most laptops makes it laggy and zoom
And render! (you can add some stuff which i will do now)
Remember to zoom out (and rotate if desired)
OK! the video is done from this point on if you want it to look better try these
Add a light and put it where you want it to be
Looks better right?
You can add shadows (which I forgot to do) by going into "Shadow" And click on "Shadow maps (soft)" and you can play around with the
density
I'll pause till the Render is done
And here is your render!
Thanks for watching good bye!