Modeling and animating cracs in ice

sean_rodrigues

In Maya 2011, is there a way to create cracks so you can see them grow as they crack along the ice? I was thinking of using blend shapes but doing a spider's web of cracks and trying to make the grow from the outside towards the inside of a plane would be a nightmare.

Any suggestions?

Sean

JamesWild

You could use an alpha mask and vary the cutoff, that would produce a "growing" shape.