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  • water trickling/sliding down glass

    Posted by Satesh Ramjattan on August 30, 2005 at 10:11 pm

    hi,
    does anyone know how i can create an effect that looks like water sliding down a piece of glass or something. example: like when rain slides down your front windshield.
    thanks.

    Michael Szalapski replied 20 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Guy

    August 30, 2005 at 10:55 pm

    I would use a particle system like Particular to create the rain drops and the trails it leaves behind (using Particluar’s secondary particle system)
    Then use a nice beveler like ReVision Shade/Shape to give it that 3D look w/lighting.
    Then duplicate the layer and experiment with transfer modes to give it transparency.
    Getting the behavior (motion) of the drops and trails will be crucial to sell the effect.
    Very doable in AE though.

    good luck, hope this was not too general.

  • Hemanth Kumar

    August 31, 2005 at 6:28 am

    Another trick would be to use Mr mercury and glue gun both,
    play around with the parameters u should really end up doing a convincing one

    regards
    Hemanth

  • Michael Szalapski

    August 31, 2005 at 11:02 am

    Or you could get a windscreen, a hose, some lights and a camera.

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    (The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great)

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