Forum: Carrara

Subject: particle emitter -- running water *help... pretty-pls!*

Boogeyman opened this issue on Oct 19, 2004 ยท 11 posts

Boogeyman posted Tue, 19 October 2004 at 12:15 PM

Hello! I am trying (rather unsuccessfully) to simulate water running from a tap (flowing). So far my attempts have made the water appear as though it is flowing in slow motion, or the effect doesn't look very realistic (kind of like a cloudy gush that trails off rather quickly). I am dying to find a tutorial on P/E's, or advice if anyone has some. Thanks, and have a smashing day! bboT

claudiomil posted Tue, 19 October 2004 at 1:24 PM

Try to increase the velocity and frequency on your Particle Emitter and enable Blur object or you can use the MetaMesh plug-in from Akurodigital to simulate water. http://www.kawachi.zaq.ne.jp/kurozuka/akurodigital/

falconperigot posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 4:46 AM

Depending on the effect you are after, you might consider this method which doesn't use particles. It's just the "twist" spline object from the browser tray, reduced in size at the lower end and rotated around the Z axis during the animation. The bubbles are just a few vertex spheres. As you can see, the caustics works quite nicely.

sailor_ed posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 6:19 AM

Excellent animation! Supurb effect. Maybe you could post this just a little bigger?

Boogeyman posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 8:53 AM

Thank you for the tips, Claudiomil and Falconperigot. I REALLY appreciate them. I had never thought about using anything other than the PE for the effect -- I really like your suggestion Falconperigot! Very cool! Using a spline object for a the effect will be easier to manage than a PE, especially since I am doing a looping animation. Thanks again, gents. You rule the pool. Isn't that ironic, all things considered? ;)

Boogeyman posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 9:06 AM

Is the twist spline object something I have to add from the Carrara content CD or is it a behaviour (and not an object)? It does not appear in my browser tray. Mind you, I am using Car1.1 at the moment -- I do have Car3.x at home (I will check when I get home). Perhaps it is a default object in Car3? Thanks again :)

falconperigot posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 12:50 PM

Glad you like it Ed! Here's a larger version.

falconperigot posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 12:54 PM

Boogeyman, the object is in the Browser tray on the left in C3. No idea whether it's in C1, so long since I used it.

Boogeyman posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 2:35 PM

Thanks a million, falconperigot! You are a beautiful human being :D

falconperigot posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 3:17 PM

That's the wonderful thing about the Internet, nobody knows I'm a bird. ;-)

sailor_ed posted Wed, 20 October 2004 at 4:13 PM

For a bird you do nice work! Thanks for the repost. My failing eyes can make out the droplets now. :-)