Hi

I think it was last year, I asked about making the surface of water move. I got an answer and tested it, even posted a sample here.

Now after putting in a new hard drive installing Windows 10 and reinstalling Poser, I can find the water surface textures that I downloaded, but I can't find the rest of what made it work.

I just can't remember what was involved, or where I got it.

Now I have a project I want to use it on.

I can't find a way to see my old posts here, so I can't go back and get the information.

Can someone tell me how to see my old posts?

Or direct me to the information on how to make waves and ripples in the water surface that I found last year.

Thanks,

Mike

Basically, the trick is to use a seamlessly looped animation to drive the displacement channel. If you have P9 (with SR3.2) or later, just download my Eldar house playset from the freestuff; copy the waterstream material to your scene and change the master scale as needed.

Every frame of the animated texture is an asymmetrically seamless tile, so you can use the master scale to increase/decrease the number of times the texture is tiled so as to cover your waterplane with ripples at the desired scale. Adjust displacement value to increase/decrease wave height.

Material room screen grab of the upper waterstream:

If you're looking for your old threads dealing with your waves/ripples experiments do an advanced search, older than 1 days, by username MikeMoss. All of the relevant threads popped up under those search conditions... there's several.

Hi

Thanks for the help. It took a while but I found it in Free Stuff after finding my old post.

I have it installed, now I'll have to figure out how to use it again. That's the problem with being 77, all the things you hear about your memory going are true! LOL

I should have remembered that it was done by BardicHeart. Once I remembered that I was able to track it down.

Thanks again to Sean for the prop! i worked with it in a number of things a few years ago, now I have a new project that I want to have moving water.

Also thanks to Seachnasaigh, I have his water textures also. And I'll work through his explanation tomorrow.

Mike

Et hop ! Procedural water from Bagginsbill

Hi

I got everything working. I did this short video to try it out....

https://vimeo.com/142393398

Later today I'm going to do a 3D Vision stereo version and see how that works.

Mike

PS, I don't see any way to add a live link it these forums any more. If I click on the Link button it just says paste your link here, but I could do that without the link button!

There used to be a dialog for inserting links. Is there a way to do that?