Realistic waterfall tutorial?

[eldee]

iirc there was something on the old softimage community site. maybe ask autodesk where they moved everything, I can't find anything that was on the old site.

but a waterfall wouldn't be too hard honestly.. just emit at an angle, drop a gravity force on it, and maybe generate particle strands. add a spawn on collision when it hits the ground to create the splash effect.. everything else is the shader you use and whatever post-work you do like fog or whatever.

[eldee]

here you go, maybe this will get you started.. it's not production ready by ANY means (the particles have no age limit, etc):

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5114/waterfallb.jpg

you might use a bounce off surface node instead of a slide, it will probably look better, but I just slapped it together :P

[azozel]

Cool this helped allot. Are there any easy ways to do a fluid sim?

[ace63]

You might want to check out this google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/ICE_SPH?hl=de

Anyone who applies is accepted and :)

You can see what the SPH fluid system does here:

http://vimeo.com/videos/search:ICE%20SPH

[eldee]

Or this one if you don't speak german:
http://groups.google.com/group/ICE_SPH?hl=en&pli=1

;)

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