Erik van Schaaik Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Hi! Can somebody help me out? I need to create a fountain of water. More like water from a garden hose. It has to be very realistic looking. Can this be done in A:M? Do you have a suggestion? Thanks! Erik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zandoriastudios Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Sprite particles would be my first thought Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattWBradbury Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 Someone made a really nice looking fountain a while back. I think they used moving textures as normal maps and moving transparency maps inorder to make it look like the water was flowing. They simply had static patches and the texture applied to them. You can make these textures using a moving material. Make sure to set the index of refraction to 1.33 on all of the water patches so you get a good look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuk Steitner Posted May 14, 2007 Share Posted May 14, 2007 He Erik! leuk jou ook eens in het forum te zien. Ik heb zelf nooit zo'n watersproeier gemaakt, maar ik zal eens ff expirimenteren van de week. Ik ben eerst 2 dagen zeilen maar daarna zal ik eens kijken hoe goed het mij lukt. Ik laat het je wel weten. Groetjes! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik van Schaaik Posted May 14, 2007 Author Share Posted May 14, 2007 There is definitely more than one way to solve this problem. I'll be looking into all your ideas and when I finally manage to create decent looking water I'll tell you how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 Experiment-Experiment! IF- you can't get what you need, you may want to try a 'NON-A:M' approach...(dare I say?) -1 shoot or photograph REAL water and composite... -2 Try another app and composite it's render with your A:M work... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 markeh is the spray expert http://migrate.hash.com/forums/index.php?a...st&id=12308 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 some possible leads http://migrate.hash.com/forums/index.php?s...60&hl=water http://migrate.hash.com/forums/index.php?s...77&hl=water http://migrate.hash.com/forums/index.php?s...mp;hl=waterfall Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuk Steitner Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 well, I have done some experiments on this and came up with some results that might do the trick. I already send the files to Erik, but I'm posting here for if you guys want to see the result: if someone wants to have the project file just let me know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Distress Posted May 17, 2007 Share Posted May 17, 2007 well, I have done some experiments on this and came up with some results that might do the trick. I already send the files to Erik, but I'm posting here for if you guys want to see the result: if someone wants to have the project file just let me know That is the most beautiful example of water I've seen done on A:M yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luuk Steitner Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 I rendered out an animation with the spray moving around. The problem that occurs is that the water divides in stripes when the direction of the spray is moving to fast. Adjusting the settings didn't seem to help. Maybe anyone know a way around this? It seems to me that the emission code needs to be changed for this, but there might be an easier way to solve this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bendytoons Posted May 18, 2007 Share Posted May 18, 2007 I rendered out an animation with the spray moving around. The problem that occurs is that the water divides in stripes when the direction of the spray is moving to fast. Adjusting the settings didn't seem to help. Maybe anyone know a way around this? It seems to me that the emission code needs to be changed for this, but there might be an easier way to solve this Luuk, You might try two emitters, with different settings, in the same place. The second emitter can be set to obscure the striping of the first and vice versa. It's a low tech solution but has worked for me in other situations with sprites. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nf1nk Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 another thing you can do is to add a turbulence "nozzle". add a force near the the emitter in the same direction as the emitter with some turbulence in it, it should radomize things nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Bigboote Posted May 19, 2007 Share Posted May 19, 2007 Yes, I've noticed this previously. COULD it be caused by a FPS issue...and because there are only 30 frames per second...the emitters can only logically be emitted in those small 'windows of emittability'. PERHAPS upping the FPS (Frames per second) and rendering out the scene in slow-motion (120 FPS...?) and then speeding it back up in post would be a workaround. OR better yet and less render intensive...change your project FPS to say...10X normal...or 300 Frames per Second... and then render-out every other 10th frame. If I get a chance I'll test this... or if one of you who are already in that zone could and post the results...that would be great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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