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  • Water Spider

    Posted by Kevin Merker on March 23, 2006 at 5:38 pm

    I have started to create a project using Waterworld and Caustics, to create a water spider ontop of a lake (ala Caustics). My problem is that the client wants to see riples from all 4 legs and not just the front 2 (seemingly i can only get waterworld to have 2 producer points). I’m not really sure how to produce what they want. I have tried using 2 seperate waterworlds to make one greyscale video for caustics but i cannot get it to work together. Any help would be great.

    Rob Davenport replied 20 years, 1 month ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  • Mylenium

    March 23, 2006 at 5:48 pm

    Change you tools and build a greyscale map in a pre-comp. My tool of choice would either be the normal ripple effect or the radio waves effect. With some tweaking and blurring this will give great results. You could then use the greyscale comp with the standard displacement and texture effects.

    Mylenium

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  • Ploughman

    March 23, 2006 at 11:42 pm

    spiders have 8 legs

  • Kevin Merker

    March 24, 2006 at 2:08 am

    You are right, however my water spider has 4 legs that touch the water :>

  • Kevin Merker

    March 24, 2006 at 2:08 am

    Thanks, I will try this tomorrow.

  • Rob Davenport

    March 26, 2006 at 11:34 pm

    Kevin

    If you are reffering to the common water strider it is not a spider it is an insect and they have 6 legs.

    LOOK AT THIS

    https://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/common_water_strider.htm

    Best,

    Rob

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