Animated water

[stinkyz]

Does anyone know what a good website is for purchasing animated water textures ( not animated water geometry, but rather animated maps )?

 

Ken z

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

this might help if you want to create some yourself... free caustic software, and it creates animated caustic maps.

 

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kand/caustics/

[STRAT]

great caustics generator is that. come in usefull on many occations.

 

try this too - http://www.doschdesign.com/products/textures/Animated_Water.html

[IC]

Can't you just use a procedural texture in the bump channel to act as ripples/waves? Move it along any axis over time for quick, realistic water.

This can be set up for animation in minutes.

[STRAT]

yeah, infact which software you looking to use?

 

only i've just created 4 or 5 realistic water shaders for cinema4d using animated water maps i made from scratch.

 

i'll post up as soon as i compile the data into a downloadable from for you guys

[stinkyz]

I should clarify... I'm actually looking for animated waterfall texture. Don't want to use particles, they take too long to render. This is for Max6. I know there are companies out there that produce these kind of animated textures. Just haven't found them yet.

 

Does anyone know who they are?

 

thanks

 

ken z

[stinkyz]

Ok, now that I look at http://www.doschdesign.com/products...ated_Water.html that Strat suggested this is more along the lines of what I was thinking, but not exactly. Need more of a rushing white water animated and tileable texture.

 

kenz

[Frosty]

I have made one in the last week. I'll be posting it in the Cinema Forum sometime today.

 

General formula is elongated(10-15 to 1) animated noise in the alpha and bump with a fallof on three sides. High specular with a steep falloff. Slight reflection and a good HDRI Environment map. Colour should be slightly blueish-green.