Other effects, Rugby ball

I've been playing with the ball effect further here using pBomb, this breaks the ball up into particles and fires them out in a direction denoted by the gravity in the scene. (this can be quite tricky to get right)

First I made a model of the ball and mapped it with the appropriate texture

Here was an early attempt, which didn't look quite right




Here I get more like what I was looking for, motion blur helps create the impression of speed.