How to make lifelike water effects with C4D? Is Thinking Particles my best bet?

[dfaris]

What kind of water effects? Do you need a sea or are you talking about water that sprays? If you need a sea or something like that I would go with Add the sea plugin. Sprays and stuff like that I would say good luck TP is good but not that good. That needs an overhaul too. You could try Storm tracer.

[mlmiller1983]

I want basic water effects. Ripple effects when an object falls in. Nothing special at the moment.

Edit: That Add the Sea Plugin looks really good. Thanks for telling me. I never knew it existed.

[Tiziano]

I'm trying something similar (an object bobbing in the water).
Real Flow 3 is my choice. Of course it's way more expensive than Add the Sea. Maybe more expensive than it's really worth too.

In viewing the demo videos for Add the Sea compared to the ones for RF I have to say that the extra price is worth it, IMO. Add the Sea looks a little 'cartoony' to me. Perhaps that's what you want however.

Had Real Flow not existed I would have said WOW when viewing the Add the Sea stuff so bear that in mind.

[JIII]

look around for peoples experiments with bump/displace with proximal. Jeremy W's lil thing is still amazing :-D... that or buy realflowww.

-John/JIII/John3

[mlmiller1983]

I'm trying something similar (an object bobbing in the water).
Real Flow 3 is my choice. Of course it's way more expensive than Add the Sea. Maybe more expensive than it's really worth too.

In viewing the demo videos for Add the Sea compared to the ones for RF I have to say that the extra price is worth it, IMO. Add the Sea looks a little 'cartoony' to me. Perhaps that's what you want however.

Had Real Flow not existed I would have said WOW when viewing the Add the Sea stuff so bear that in mind.

I was thinking about realflow but it is expensive(the commerical license anyways). Your right Add the Sea is a little cartoony so I will look into Realflow. Maybe I'll try a student version of Realflow and see how well it works.

[soccerrprp]

Check this out! I got this from another c4d modeler from either cgtalk, c4dattack or c4dcafe. I just got it early this morning and can't remember!

Check out what he did to get the ripples.

I do apologize if passing on someone else's work is questionable! I just can't remember where I got this, otherwise, I would have just given the link.

Richard

[Tiziano]

I do apologize if passing on someone else's work is questionable! I just can't remember where I got this, otherwise, I would have just given the link.

Richard

http://www.c4djug.com/8_0/sample81/81.html

Mid-way down the page :thumbsup:

[spnhead]

http://www.hypa.tv/tims/animations.html

Tim Clapham has two good examples of water in Cinema 4d. One uses a displacement map created in After Effects and the other uses Fizz and metaballs.

spnhead

[wuensch]

Check out the drinking dinosaur in this thread
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=268840&highlight=cancellor
water was done in Add-the sea and looks pretty good to me.


Olli

[soccerrprp]

http://www.hypa.tv/tims/animations.html

Tim Clapham has two good examples of water in Cinema 4d. One uses a displacement map created in After Effects and the other uses Fizz and metaballs.

spnhead


Spnhead,

Clapham's work is wonderful! Maybe you can help me...i've seen a link to the file or tut of his "Using SPD to simulate water" animation somewhere. Any ideas? Does he have tuts of his work?

Richard

[wuensch]

Wow--
yup, these are really pretty impressive---
makes me wonder how the SPD map is being generated---

olli


Spnhead,

Clapham's work is wonderful! Maybe you can help me...i've seen a link to the file or tut of his "Using SPD to simulate water" animation somewhere. Any ideas? Does he have tuts of his work?

Richard

[christianS]

Looks to me the same method that jeremyW used some years ago, but without displacement. I think he used proximal in combination with distorter. Unfortunatly the site doesn't exist anymore it appears.

[christianS]

ah, it still exitsts:

http://www.jeremyw.com/C4D_Stuff/prox_distort_water.html

[wuensch]

Thanks a bunch for the link----
great effect, and not even hard to achieve--

Olli

[mlmiller1983]

http://www.c4djug.com/8_0/sample81/81.html

Mid-way down the page :thumbsup:

Now that is impressive.

[spnhead]

Here's Tim's thread about SPD water:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=162372&page=1&pp=15


spnhead

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