water feature / waterfall

[peterguthrie]

For a new project I need to make a water feature something like this:





has anyone done something like that? any tips? anyone fancy making one for me in phoenix or realflow? (I'll pay!)

peter

[glorybound]

just did... Photoshop brush

[peterguthrie]

3d please!

[joconnell]

Kind of a job for blob mesh, pflow, maybe some curved sheet geometry with a stretched noise map in a displace slot, some bumps and what not.

[peterguthrie]

tried something like that years ago:



just thought that in this day and age, fluid simulation software must be able to cope with a simple water feature filling a shallow pool pretty easily? am i misguided?

to be clear, I want something that looks AWESOME, not just good, and am willing to pay someone else to do it

[joconnell]

Ah okay. Yeah it's pretty easy to do, I'd go with naiad, krakatoa and frost. You'd end up with a prt file for your splashy bit and a vrmesh for your pool.

[Pixelcon]

Someone at work pulled it off using realflow (and it looks remarkably like the example you've posted) but it was hair-pulling stuff from the looks of it. He spent days doing it and the simulations were at a snail's pace. I've never used fluid-sims before but realflow looked painful.

[peterguthrie]

yeah i guess it would take me days as well if i bought all the right tools..

[Neilg]

Film it!



This is a quick proof of concept I did a while back - we then spent a couple days with a hosepipe and a black board filming new ones. after collecting a shitload of thin strands I took them into fusion and made a 4k wide, looping animated waterfall. On decent curved geometry, animated noise to shake it up & the map in the opacity and displacement it came out looking great.

also plan to film water splashing into a pool from above to do the same for a displacement map on the water surface but we didnt need it for that job.

[beestee]

Kind of a job for blob mesh, pflow, maybe some curved sheet geometry with a stretched noise map in a displace slot, some bumps and what not.

I wonder if you could use those techniques along with this script to get something to work for the way it breaks apart as it falls.

[super gnu]

thats a nice looking script

[Da_elf]

id just use geometry and model it

[peterguthrie]

ok next question.. anyone got tips on water material settings for speeding up renders of alembic particles loaded using vrayproxy????

[thablanch]

I would go with a simple plane, little bit of modelling, bit of noise and a good shader.. for the upper part.. a scatter for the bottom part, and getting them together. Not a realflow or phoenix solution, but fast n clean! ( of course if this is a still image)

[joconnell]

Peter is there any chance of trying the horrible thing of importing the mesh into your scene? Since vray proxy is more of a get out of jail card for high memory scenes and not the best choice for performance can you bring a mesh in?