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Subject: metaball waves

frogdot opened this issue on Jun 19, 2003 · 15 posts
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frogdot ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 8:43 AM · edited Sat, 11 January 2025 at 4:00 AM

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A few asked how it was done, so here's a mini-tutorial.

RodsArt ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 8:50 AM

Thanks frogdot!

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Aldaron ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 9:09 AM

Aren't metaballs great? :)

Slakker ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 10:07 AM

you freaking rule man, i love you. a lot.

stash0404 ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 10:52 AM

Well tempted as i am to say that i love you i dont think i will....

However thanks a lot for the tutorial - ive been wondering how the pros did it..

Stash
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Slakker ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 10:54 AM

now all we need for this is wave textures :D

Incarnadine ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 11:19 AM

what a novel way to do this, thanks for the tip!

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Swade ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 11:47 AM

Fantastic tip you posted here frogdot.... I love it. ....Notice I said I love it.... not you. I appreciate you for this .... lol 8) ~Swade~

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tjohn ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 12:23 PM

I've been killing myself trying to do this for years. Thanks Frogdot!

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danamo ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 12:58 PM

This is great! It sure beats trying to do this using terrains. You've inspired me to go back and work on an old beach scene. Thanks!

Allen9 ( ) posted Thu, 19 June 2003 at 1:04 PM

Thanks immensely. This is exactly what I need right now as I'm working on 2 scenes that need waves. Terrains are great for making ordinary at-sea waves, but this will give me those shoreline breakers that terrains just don't do well. Thank you Dankeschoen Merci beaucoup Mille grazie Muchas gracias Domo arigato gozaimasu Hsieh Hsieh Bahut dhanyavad Spasibo Shukran etc., etc. and so forth... :D

Doublecrash ( ) posted Fri, 20 June 2003 at 6:19 AM

Thanx a lot for the tip!

RhiannonGypsy ( ) posted Sat, 21 June 2003 at 1:45 AM

Thank you for the tutorial. I too have been trying to make realistic waves using terrains. You have inspired me.

Vile ( ) posted Wed, 28 June 2006 at 9:56 PM

But, but... I wanna know how you did the wet sand!!!!

frogdot ( ) posted Thu, 29 June 2006 at 1:08 AM

For wet sand, you can take your sand/beach terrain, duplicate it, then clip the bottom off just a bit. Give the the lower terrain a darker, shinier wet sand material.

Another way I've used, is postwork. Render the scene once with dry sand and a second time with wet sand, then layer them in your image editor and erase along the waterline, allowing the wet sand to show through

 

hope that helps.

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