Best Tool for water ripple effect

[Kevin Camp]

it depends a bit on the ripple….

wave world is a great ripple simulator. you can choose round point ripple generators or linear wave generators, up to two generators. the wave can also be set to refelct of the sides. wave wrold, though, will only generate a grey scale map that you then will need to use in another effect like displacement map of caustics.

caustics will give you the most realist water effect of the two… it generates the distortion, highlights and relfections from a displacement map (it calls water layer).

this tutorial uses waveworld and caustics to create a pool.

if you need more like calm lake ripple (liek constatnly undulating) fractal noise can generate pretty good textures when used in caustics.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Reggie Spires]

I didn’t say ti right .. I want to make a piece of footage (not water footage) ripple out to tranisition another piece in with the same effect .. still use the same?

[Kevin Camp]

oh, more of a ripple transition…. if it is the simple ripple type transition i’m thinking of, there should be a descent plugin that can do it as a single process.

the standard ripple effect would work, i think i would try it on and adjustment layer over a simple disolve between two layers. a little turbulent displace on the same adjustment layer might help too.

you could use wave world and caustics in a similar way, but it would be more work, and i’m not sure it’s the look your after.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Maya Czep]

Actually, there is a plugin called “Ripple Disolve” in /transitions folder. Could this be what you are looking for?

[Michael Johnson]

I realize this is an old thread by far but can you use these ripple techniques to ripple through opacity?