wave variation

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3 questions:

  1. is there any way that I can make a wave effect more random (different heights, speeds or widths for each wave)?

  2. what kind of materials and or lighting should be used to make realistic water?

  3. is there anyway i can make spray emit from the waves (particles?) when the waves hit an object?
    Thanks

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  1. Well, that’s a very interesting question… There is no way you can randomize the height or length or any of the attributes of the wave effect on one object (a Plane for example…)… How about you use more than one Planes for your water surface and add a wave effect for each one, with slightly different attributes??? It might give you some short of randomization, allthough it would require a lot of work to set up… It would be interesting to see if it works…

  2. The Blender 2.0 guide, had a very good tutorial dealing with material settings for realistic water… Check it out at www.blender.org

  3. You just gave the answer yourself… You can do it with Particles…

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You can also add more than one wave to a surface. Different waves from different origins with different speeds and heights can combine together to create a nice semi random pattern.

Martin

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thanks you guys.
ps: does anyone know the URL to that tut on realistic water materials. I cant find it
THNX

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Sure… :smiley:

Go to: http://download.blender.org/documentation/NaN_docs/Manual2.0/MaterialTexture.html

It contains the entire chapter from the Blender 2.0 guide, dealing Materials…

Scroll down the page, till you find a section called: “Realistic water ripples by Randal Rickert” or something…

It will give you a very good idea about how to make a nice looking water surface…

Sorry for not posting the link in my first post, I just didn’t have it available as well… I had to do some digging to find it…

I hope this helps a bit…

C.U. around… :wink:

P.S.: About the wave effect, I think Theeth’s suggestion should work better than mine… Actually mine was kinda dumb… I totally forgot about the possibility to add more than one effect on the same object… Seems like my brain is shortcircuited or something… :stuck_out_tongue:

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You can use blender cvs with its displacement mapping and use wood texture for waves then add cloud texture for variations I did a really cool flag animation…