Using expression for wave

[johnl3d]

Since I have been off (from work... ) this week I been pushing some ideas I've been thinking about on my commute to & from work so here is another one.

I used an expression to move a series of bones on a plane to make waves. The actual expression was applied to each bone with a simple copy and paste and a tweak. It needs adjustment since it is a bit fast but I wanted to try a render. So I grabbed a boat off the cd, a darktree material, for the water, added a null following a spline on the grid, to contrain the boat's position and rendered.

 

Its only a single multipass to speed things up ( slow computer) and a litttle jaggy but here it is

 

wavetest.mov

 

and here's the project the decals needed are on the cd and the darktree is on their site in the depository

 

wavetest.zip

[Caroline]

That one should come with a motion sickness warning

 

Can you not constrain the boat to the spline without the null?

[johnl3d]

Yes but I was going to try to have an emitter doing a wash and have it preceed the same null but thought that would be too much for my machine

 

 

For motion sickness just contrain the camera to the boats deck