made this with suggestions from chris. its done with 3 displacement maps moving at different speeds on a torus with a 360 degree twist.
http://www.elfpro3d.com/Vray/water.avi
sorry. the codec is indeo5 but there is a post of it on youtube listed 2 posts down
wow!
looks absolutely amazing!
just incase people have trouble with avi codec
And I am Chris if anyone has any problems with that 
Stunning, it flows really well!
huh 3 displacements ? you mean a mix/blend with 3 maps?
maybe you can explain a bit. it looks realy cool!
Very cool. Please tell us more!
you should state which codec your using if it isn’t one someone would automatically have. I couldn’t watch it and I have both divx and xvid. Which I assumed you were using.
Oh and neat animation.
yeah, when i say 3 displacement maps i mean 3 maps used in a series of mix maps then the whole mixture is applied to a single displacement map. so more or less the ring never moves, only the maps. i know it would give trouble with motion blur since the blur would only go in and out and not around however i didnt need blur on this one.
Nice one Elf. Looks very cool.
Oh indeo video 5.10…ewwww
ooo look s amazing, congrats…ill bet it would not look that good with fluid simulation :)))))
i only had 3 hours to get it finished so fluid dynamics wouldnt even have pooped into my head
would u mind writing a quick tut how u ve done it? roughly?
if its not too secret
will work on it this week.