Idea hit me thunk! :p, when I was playing with Directional Ventilators in V6I and then thinking about Wabe's ingenious "Firebug" pack:

Couldn't you use a directional ventilator, placed at angles, to affect a "special effect" vegetation item?
for example, have a low, shallow angled directional ventilator affect a plant who's material is meant to simulate water spray
thus, you could simulate water spraying from wheels, boat wakes etc?

Hm? :)

Wehen it comes to animation you might as well be speaking in Ugarit.

Huh?

Ugarit is a city in Serbia, but I agree, animation is silliness only for the ancients to uinderstand:D

Yeah, Syria...not Serbia :D

Ventilators take effect in STILL shots as well, for your information, people.... :)

Do they effect eco systems as well ? How about for stills ?

Here is an example using wind on rain - I tinkered a bit with the ventilators but got a better result using the wind....This is a still & yes wind can effect eco's...not sure about ventilators.  SHould have added here I used 2 Rain(tropical) plants - both of which were going straight up & down - by using 2 different wind directions they split in 2 in the shape of a V.

Excuse the crudeness of the render - just a quick play - sample.

yes ventilators work on stills as well ;)

here I was just mucking around with some new stuff I'd bought on C3D, when  I came up with this idea...
inset pic shows effect of ventilator on #2 image.

So, since it blows vegetation, you could use that to "blow" special effect vegetation, as dlk30341has shown.**

**Another trick discovered by moi, yum yum! ;)

I'd try stuff out with Wabe's firebug veg, but am working on complex scene at moment.

Now if the wind/ventilators could affect buildings(objects in general) & water :blink:

Nice discussion. I propose that using ventilators on my splashes are even a god idea too :D

But to be able to use these effects I always had in mind when I tried to base my "effects" (fire, rain, snow, splashes, fog) on SolidGrowth plants.

Wabe,
"Great minds think alike!" ...
I will avoid the rest of that quote though, ahem :lol:

raises a glass to Wabe's super veg :)

Don't forget that you can use negative numbers in the ventitilator power settings...  Then they suck instead of blow.  :biggrin:

LOL - When I tried the ventilators the rain didn't do a thing really(well to my eyes anyway)  When I switched it to omni directional it blew the rain right off my monitor - I just couldn't find the "perfect" power/falloff setting to keep it visible on screen.  So, based on my level patience I reverted to the wind :lol: