Water Tutorial

Usagi

Last week I put a test animation of water in the WIP forum. It was well received and many asked for a tutorial. Yesterday I had the time to make one. Have fun!

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bullx

THANK YOU VERY MUCH, your tecnique is simple but effective, i'm going to try some different parameters to make the water match my scene.

tnx for you observation time :-)

DYeater

Thanks alot ... I'll try it out today.

O

Simple, but very effective, great job on the technique, and the tutorial

~ox{

Great stuff. Thanks for taking the time to teach us.

rusmannx

great tut.
i already tried it with great success.
(except i can't find the diffuse slider).

Delta

it reminds me of cog'swater tute...
(its at the bottom in the tutorials section...)

i think that the two used in conjunction are great...

yours is simpler and good for getting a body of water like a lake..

his is good for ocean scenes...

thank you very much for sharing

Regards,
~Delta

Usagi

Thank you for all the kind replies.

Quote:

Originally Posted by rusmannx

(except i can't find the diffuse slider).

Sorry, the diffuse reflection is called "Ref". I changed it in the tutorial.

rusmannx

Quote:

Originally Posted by Usagi

Sorry, the diffuse reflection is called "Ref". I changed it in the tutorial.

got it. looks even better

Vaccine0101

wow thats some nice water! im gonna check the tut out right now i was wondering were to find one and i didn't even have to ask. now i jsut need a grass tut

=KH=Lupus

Thanks very much for the tut, it is excellent

I'm having a problem with it though, even setting the ofz curve to linear in the ipo window, the water still doesn't animate properly. It starts slowish, then speeds up in the middle, and then slows down again. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

burns

simple but very effective,

thanks very much

Usagi

Quote:

Originally Posted by =KH=Lupus

Thanks very much for the tut, it is excellent

I'm having a problem with it though, even setting the ofz curve to linear in the ipo window, the water still doesn't animate properly. It starts slowish, then speeds up in the middle, and then slows down again. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Most likely you didn't change it for both wave texture channels. The texture channels are accessed through the number next to the IPO type field when it is set to Material. I updated the tut with this info.

DYeater

Quote:

Originally Posted by =KH=Lupus

Thanks very much for the tut, it is excellent

I'm having a problem with it though, even setting the ofz curve to linear in the ipo window, the water still doesn't animate properly. It starts slowish, then speeds up in the middle, and then slows down again. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

It sounds to me like you forgot to change the IPO curves to linear. In the IPO window, put your mouse over the curves, press Tab to go into edit mode, select a curve (or A to select all), Then select Curve from the header, then Interpolation Mode and finally Linear. This will keep the action from slowly starting and slowly ending. The action will be at a constant speed.

=KH=Lupus

Aha thanks Usagi, that fixed it

Soulless

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