
Originally by created Kelly “Kat” Myers to provide compositing elements for use in several of The Asylum’s “disaster” films over the last 3 years, Kat’s VFX Shattering Glass Pack Vol 1., is much more than just something you can use in your composites. It’s a full scenes, objects, and MDD vert cache collection that can be used immediately in your shots for when you need glass windows to shatter and fall or modify to have blown out in a direction such as when a character gets pushed through it or some other environmental factor contributes to its destruction. They are LOAD AND GO, with many final setups working with MDD files applied already in each scene. No Bullet caching or sims are required, but all the bullet settings for each scene are preserved and ready to be fiddled with, should you desire.
Created in LightWave3D 2015 for maximum compatibility for all current “in production use” versions of LightWave3D, these scenes can easily be pulled into any newer version of LightWave without issue. Simply drop into your scene and go.
Set up with multiple types of glass panes shattered in many different ways using LW Modeler’s fracture tool, (plus some clean up) – each of the 26 primary scenes are essentially drop-in and-go ready, while an additional 11 scenes are fully set up to be rendered as composite elements from a significant distance for use on skyscrapers glass windows shattering and falling large distances. Just hit F10 or throw them on your render farm… but it gets better! The renders for those (32bit PNG) are included with this product, so if you don’t want to render anything and you need something right away, drop them into your composite and get your shot done, working directly with renders using vertical resolutions of 15K and 200 or more frames for the largest possible freefall time and distance coverage.
Don’t have the right angle from those pre-rendered sequences? No problem, these are set up to render in just a few seconds per frame at high AA/AS and motion blur settings even in a close-up shot. For anyone who needs these types of effects and doesn’t have the time to build them out, this package is for you. You will find that you will use them over and over for, quickly banging out action shots of many types. Anytime you need to break a window, this is your go-to kit!
Similar “rendered-out stock footage” products on the market of this type of effect can sell for as much as hundreds of dollars, and that’s just for one animation, maybe if you are lucky, a basic set, depending on licenses. Now you can get all these scenes to make your own renders fast or work with the renders included right away.
All this for just $24.95USD