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  • Water condensation on window

    Posted by Julian Sixx on September 23, 2006 at 11:38 am

    Hi
    I have a shot through a window and i’d like to add water condensation at the bottom of this window.
    I also would like to have one drop that runs down the window and as soon as it hits another drop they’d merge together.
    Any ideas?

    Julian Sixx replied 19 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 9 Replies
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  • Mylenium

    September 23, 2006 at 11:54 am

    CC Ball Action (generic drops), CC Mercury (for the merging one), Bubbles or other particle systems. Use duplicate layers with Displacment for fake refractions. Other than that, I believe there is some such filter in one of the Tinderbox plugin suites.

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Reloaded

    September 23, 2006 at 12:44 pm

    If you are able to create a black and white animation of it with some blur, then you just have to apply a displacement map on it, the result of the bachground distortion would be perfect.

  • Julian Sixx

    September 23, 2006 at 2:57 pm

    Hi
    thank you guys!
    I ‘ve tried the CC Ball option.How do i get the balls to look like water drops?
    I use it as a displacement map and it looks just bad.

    Ref picture:https://www.wunderground.com/wximage/viewsingleimage.html?mode=singleimage&handle=Catbart&number=154

  • Mylenium

    September 23, 2006 at 3:46 pm

    You cannot change the shape of the spheres, unfordunately. If that’s required I can only – once again – recommend Trapcode’s Particular with a custom particle shape.

    Mylenium

    [Pour Myl

  • Reloaded

    September 23, 2006 at 4:13 pm

    Hey man, do what I say, it’s easier and the result will be more realistic, if I have time at home this weekend I’ll do a test to show you.

  • Julian Sixx

    September 23, 2006 at 4:41 pm

    Hi
    I’ll try trapcode.

    [Reloaded] ” if I have time at home this weekend I’ll do a test to show you.”

    that would be great!!
    I’ll have a go on your solution as well!

  • Julian Sixx

    September 24, 2006 at 8:49 am

    Hi
    I’ve created the drops with particular.How do i give this white drops now a glassy water look?
    I tried CC Blobbylise and i used the trapcode Comp as Blob layer but i’m not happy with it.Which effect does the trick?
    Any ideas appreciated

  • Peter Litwinowicz

    September 25, 2006 at 8:37 pm

    Once you have mattes for the drops, you can use our Shade/Shape. $89.95

    It builds a 3D inflation on your matte and allows you to reflect the background image on it for a glassy and/or watery effect (and other effects, not just glassy). It really works great as the mattes of your droplets merge and split. You can try a demo of it, available from the downloads section for Shade/Shape : https://www.revisionfx.com/rsshade.htm

    Look in the gallery section on our website for some examples. The second to last one has a glassy, watery effect.

    If you have trouble, simply post to me a couple of frames of your droplet mattes and source material and we’ll get you a sample project. You can email that info to techsupport@revisionfx.com
    Pete
    RE:VIsion Effects, Inc.
    https://www.revisionfx.com

  • Julian Sixx

    September 26, 2006 at 3:41 am

    Hi
    thank you Peter I’ll try it!

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