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Animatingwater w/o MoGraph – Please HELP!
I have to complete a “How it Works” animation for a solar pool heater. I’ve searched the web for tutorials on how to animate the water, but they all require MoGraph, which I do not have.
PLEASE HELP!! I’ve attached a sketch of my artwork & What I need the water to do, but just to be clear:
1 – The cold water flows up the pipes on rt
2 – The water fans out through the panel array getting hooter as it goes along. I have to change the color of the water from blue to red to convey heat
3 – The heated water returns to the pool.Sounds easy, but can’t figure it out!
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I would just do it with a sweep nurbs that gets aniamted. Then apply a nice water texture to it (bump and displacment.
It you need a little running water. You can do this with a simple emitter and a gravity effector. THen you add a motion blur tag and set it to vector blur./Randy
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Ok. I finally got a Sweep Nurbs to work, have my water texture applied – now how do I animate it? I tried animating just the points on an object before by adding key frames & moving the points. It didn’t work. The object through out the animation was altered.
I’m still learning the program, so I’m probably missing something simple.
Thank you for your help.
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In the sweep nurns attributes there is END GROWTH it is default to 100%. THats what you want to animate.
I made a five minute tutorial on how i would set it up including a user data slider incase you have several thing you want to control.
https://rootvisuals.blogspot.com/
/Randy
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