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warping a grid in 3d space to create stylized ocean plane?
I am trying to figure out how to achieve a certain effect but i keep hitting deadends.
I have a flat plane that i have applied the Grid effect to, then switched to 3d and rotated the plane to create a horizontal surface.
I want to affect the grid in such a way as to create the feeling of an ocean purely from the wave like distortion on the grid….but this is where i’m hiting the walls…nothing i do is letting me actually warp the grid.!!I have tried a fractal noise as the source for a displacement map – but the grid is not displacing, i’ve tried the wave world plugin but that just looks wrong.
I guess the problem is that the displacement effect is only 2d and i am trying to displace the z-axis….is this even possible in AE or do i need to go out and buy Maya!!!!
adam
Adam Taylor
Video Editor/Audio Mixer/ Compositor/Motion GFX/Barista
Character Options Ltd
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3 Replies
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Have you tried precomposing the rotated 3D grid and applying a displacement map to the precomp?
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Eran Stern put a ripple effect on the floor in his tutorial here… don’t know if it’s quite what you want but could be of interest:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/Tornado_Text2.php
Brian
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Hi Adam,
Not sure if this will give you quite what you are looking for but it may be close..Check out this caustics tutorial:
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/tierney_jim/caustics.php
Apply the caustics / wave world to your 2-D grid. Pre compose this then rotate it as needed.. Depending on your angle it may look ok… It may also help to have a tighter grid (more lines)….
Hopefully this is helpful?
–KTFA
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