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daydreaming about realistic animated waterfall, river rapids

MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
edited June 2015 in Carrara Discussion

a combination of particles, dynamic waterplane? wind physics?


was thinking of dragons flying something like the fjords shown on Vikings episodes.
or the mystic gorge :)


been staring at the sims pets game. one of the houses haz a waterfall.

final fantasy X has waterfalls in Besaid.


oh no :lol:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Photography/Images/POD/z/zambezi-river-raft-504885-sw.jpg
hoping no one was hurt

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  • MarkBremmerMarkBremmer Posts: 190
    edited December 1969

    The easiest way, if you are wanting a realistic look, is to get some video footage and either compose it in post production, or (I've done this a bunch) make sure the video is relatively high contrast and then map it to the displacement and color channels of a plane.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited June 2015

    won't count as cgi then?


    i wonder if there a Cannes film festival award for cgi
    eek complicated looking http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/archives/awardCompetition.html

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  • MarkBremmerMarkBremmer Posts: 190
    edited December 1969

    Sure it's CG. It's still the geometry that is being rendered.

    Remember, if the final output hasn't been filmed or photographed, then it's all an elaborate ruse - a fake. It's like saying using a photographic texture invalidates the render as CG.

    I remember reading an interview with George Lucas where the interviewer was asking him if he thought having Jar Jar Binks, a completely digital character, made the movie less "real". He replied, "Less real? How? It's all fake."

    But, hey, I'm crazy so it really doesn't matter. :D

  • JonstarkJonstark Posts: 2,738
    edited December 1969

    Misty, did you see this yet? Was done with Carrara 6 I think, involves meatball particles and planes for the water: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTxsGnqkB_0

    the guy who did it put up a tutorial showing how: https://www.dropbox.com/s/sd483fzp6vuxmdi/WaterfallTutorial.pdf?dl=0

    I thought it was amazingly realistic water work, all done via cgi, and all in Carrara too, so seems it's definitely possible to go this route. I opened a thread on this on the forums around the beginning of the year actually.

  • WendyLuvsCatzWendyLuvsCatz Posts: 38,038
    edited December 1969

    JonStark, metaballs may work better than meatball particles for water, the latter ok for a bolognaise sauce flow perhaps. :lol:

  • HeadwaxHeadwax Posts: 9,964
    edited June 2015

    nerd3d at hivewire has a waterfall tool

    I'm guessing the plane has a morph target attached

    video here but scanty clad girl in jeep sorry https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_profilepage&v=5tyzYVc5QWM

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