Water ....bloody nightmare

[nzoreo]

Afternoon everyone,
I am animating a trophy coming out of a still bowl of water. the water is black. What I want as the trophy rises out of the water, I want it to (a) disturb the water and ( drops to fall off it as it goes up. does anyone have any suggestions, someone has suggested 3d textures to me, but I have to say I am struggling with them. I would have used the old particle system, but I don't have it anymore, and I can't suss out phoenix tools at all.
Any help would be great...cheers

ALEX

[juan-sanchez]

How about using magnet+ (under 'effects' in the motion module) to disturb the surface initially, followed by a wave (under effects too).

Your drops/drips could be produced with simple geometrics, using magnet+ or deformation>by surface to hold them to the cup's sides as your 'gravity'(dynamics) effect pulls them down untill they drop off the base & into the waters surface, which is highlighted by use of small waves once again.

Hope that helps...

[fredc]

I did something like this a while back.

1. As the object rose out of a surface, I used verying waves. One large linear wave across the entire liquid surface, then losts of smaller waves imminating from the object.

2. For the surface tension next to the object, I used a bump map to make the edge next the object appear slightly higher. I also oscillated this by animating the bump factor between positive and negative values.

3. I didn't have a lot of droplets, so I animated these myself mostly with metaclay (when air born). As they struck the liquid I added additional waves. I also used deformation on a surface to make some droplets "ooze" down the sides.

Sorry, it's not much to go on, but for the particular project I used it onfor, it worked pretty well.

Urp