water ripple effect

trey · July 30th, 2002

i'm trying to make an image
of a square pond with trees in
the middle of it. i need water
ripples that come from the trees.
so the ripples look like their
coming from the trees, then
die out to the edges.

how do i go about doing this?

John Dollus · July 30th, 2002

You could do it with an animated bump map.

plastic · July 30th, 2002

of course you could do it with an animated radial gradient ramp, but blur did a free material plugin which does exactly what you want.

http://www.blur.com/blurbeta

its called 'drip'
there is also 'rain' which randomizes and scatters multiple drips...

nisus · July 31st, 2002

Hi all,

some side-line info: if you want to animate ripples from the trees - i.e. a mesh vs a texture - you could use 'splash' or 'DNT'

rgds

nisus

DNT = Digital Nature Tools (didn't this plugin changed its name?)

July 30th, 2002	#3 (permalink)
plastic Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: vienna, EU Posts: 314 Name: Marc Lorenz	of course you could do it with an animated radial gradient ramp, but blur did a free material plugin which does exactly what you want. http://www.blur.com/blurbeta its called 'drip' there is also 'rain' which randomizes and scatters multiple drips... __________________ Marc Lorenz http://plugins.angstraum.at My 3d gallery at Flickr

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nisus Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gent Flanders Belgium Europe Age: 32 Posts: 3,276 Name: Evert Vandenberghe	Hi all, some side-line info: if you want to animate ripples from the trees - i.e. a mesh vs a texture - you could use 'splash' or 'DNT' rgds nisus DNT = Digital Nature Tools (didn't this plugin changed its name?) __________________ www.ams.be / www.nisusarts.com http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=nisusCGA&p=r

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July 30th, 2002	#1 (permalink)
trey Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: atlanta Posts: 40 Name:	i'm trying to make an image of a square pond with trees in the middle of it. i need water ripples that come from the trees. so the ripples look like their coming from the trees, then die out to the edges. how do i go about doing this?

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John Dollus Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Tampa Age: 38 Posts: 619 Name: John Dollus	You could do it with an animated bump map.

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