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doneydonydone
05-18-2009, 08:07 PM
hey guys - im lee

i'm hoping to find some help of how i can create a very basic version of the massive tidal wave scene in ''the day after 2moro''

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS0_w5RybTw

all i really want is for the water 2 move through a basic city reacting to each building and maybe having some slight wakes created when it touches the buildings

when i say basic i mean 10 stretched cubes and a ground plane with the water moving around and not going straight through the cubes

its the water simulation i'm trying to get right

so far i have used fluids (that look like smoke until i turn them to hard surfaces and use a negative buoyancy value)

the trouble is the fluids are bound to the 3d box and i want them to possibly slide down a slope and then to interact with the buildings

- any help is greatly appreciated thanks ;o)
Helgi
05-19-2009, 07:09 AM
If you want realistic water then I would like into something else than Maya, i.e. Real Flow or Houdini. Because Maya's Fluids are not really good for water simulations.

If you have Maya 2009 then you can look into nParticles.
doneydonydone
05-19-2009, 07:37 AM
unfortunatley its a uni pre vis assignment and i'm stuck with using maya 2008

there's definitely a way round this problem - im sure of it

any one else out there??? lol
thomwickes
05-19-2009, 08:52 AM
If it's a pre-vis assignment you don't need a fluid simulation for this at all - in fact I think trying to sim this with liquids will slow you down tenfold... I think you're probably better off faking the entire thing.

You just need some deforming plane for the wave... you can even use blend shapes or just a sin wave or something like that and just emit a load of particles for the initial splash. there's some good threads on here recently...

check this thread http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=721332

viki's using a crown shape piece of geometry to emit particles from which gives a good splashing look. If you want to create the statue of liberty splash this sort of thing would work well.
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