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Ripple from a water drop
Hello all..
I am trying to create an effect of a water droplet hitting a pool of water.. I have tried the ripple effect in AE but the thing is it keeps on generating the wave.. i have tried keyframing but none of the sliders seem to create a realistc looking ripple…
What i would like to happen is a when the water drop hits the layer.. it creates a few rings which travels outwards.. the ripple should die down from the center outwards (like in real ripples).. if there is anyway i can do this with a plugin or with some other program please let me know.. appreciate reading the post.. thanks -
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Caustics and Displacement, here’s a tut:
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Droping into caustics
Also click on Aharon Rabinowitz’s head above and see his 2 tut on displacement maps (a 3rd to come),
Good stuff.
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thanks for the quick reply…
I have tried this tut… it works great.. however I am not just doing one drop of water.. I should have explained this in the first post..
Basically.. its several drops hitting a water surface.. it cant be just a rain plugin as i need to customize the location of where it is hitting.. its about 50 drops.. The thing with wave wolrd is its so processor intensive its impossible to do this many… i tried displacement mapping with a video file of a drop of water.. but than again i cant customize the location with this either..
any other thoughts would be much appreciated…thanks
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Aha, I think you want Simulate > CC Drizzle, turn the drip rate way down (the default is a boiling water effect) and tweak the other parameters to get scattered raindrop ripples. As far as confining to an area, masking is all I can think of. You might have to trial-and-error tweak until you come across a pattern you like.
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tried everything with drizzle..
is there no plugin that just does a single ripple.. spreads and die…
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Have you tired Radio waves.
You can tweak the frequency to produce a single circular wave with faded back end. Pre-comp this effect on a solid and use it as your displacement map for you ripple.
Hope the helps
Graham
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did you try searching for ripple and include the archives. There are a bunch of ways to do what you want. I got a huge list that I’m exploring right now.
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