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Using Mir to create single drop ripple, not many ripples?
Mir is a little beyond my abilities, but I can follow along a tutorial. However, I can’t seem to find a tutorial specific to my need.
I have footage of a lake and a CGI boat on it. We composited in an explosion to simulate the boat blowing up. What I’d like to do is create what would amount to a single (very large!) drop onto the surface of water to make a simulated shock wave eminate from the boat area.
This seems like it would be pretty basic and easy, but all I’m finding are tutorials on looping Mir effects (like the surface of an ocean). How do I use Mir to create a displacement map that only has one ripple?
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You would create a map to drive the displacement of the mesh and that map (which would be a precomp would just have a (feathered) rapidly expanding circle outline.
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The problem is the map would be in 2D, yes? So it wouldn’t render accurately from proper 3D perspective.
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