water ripple effect

[trey]

i'm trying to make an image

of a square pond with trees in

the middle of it. i need water

ripples that come from the trees.

so the ripples look like their

coming from the trees, then

die out to the edges.

 

how do i go about doing this?

[John Dollus]

You could do it with an animated bump map.

[plastic]

of course you could do it with an animated radial gradient ramp, but blur did a free material plugin which does exactly what you want.

 

http://www.blur.com/blurbeta

 

its called 'drip'

there is also 'rain' which randomizes and scatters multiple drips...

[nisus]

Hi all,

 

some side-line info: if you want to animate ripples from the trees - i.e. a mesh vs a texture - you could use 'splash' or 'DNT'

 

rgds

 

nisus

 

DNT = Digital Nature Tools (didn't this plugin changed its name?)