Need to make realistic water effect.
 

I am curently trying to make realistic water effect, with water ruching though a tunnel. But the question is, is there a way to do it nice and realistic in LightWave or will i need to you RealFlow or a app like that? The water isent moving like the kind of water i want in my scene :rolleyes:

First of all it wasn't god, but God. :p

Secondly, it is possible to do it.
You can try creating it with displacements, and/or HyperVoxels.
I could help more if I knew what you have already tried.

Do a search on Newtek's forum for Children of Dune. There was an incredible water effect done with LW only and the guy that did it (I think from Zoik or Area-51) explained what was involved. The thread was around the time of Siggraph.

Thanks. i like the water effect in that movie. i will trye to find the text :) Thanks again

I belive Cchristensen is talking aboput this:

http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthre...5&pagenumber=3

Look for the posts by RCFX.

That is the one Kvaalen

hehe, thats a cool tenqnike he is using, i will trye that, i dident think that you could get it to look that good with sprites. :). exuse my spelling, my english is not the best :)

how is your water test coming along, i am workin on a solution aswell, but mine is for water flowing onto a surface, like from a bottle of sprite onto a table.Will put a link to it when im finished rendering it.

Ok i am showing some experiment with creating water, these examples arent to do with the look but more the flow of water, i am currently experimenting with one emitter, i will post any updates i have on this.

First Test

http://www.geocities.com/utica_2k/pouring_water_01.avi

Second Test

http://www.geocities.com/utica_2k/pouring_water_03.avi

Please remember this is testing the Flow of water and not trying to give it the look.

The .avi files are using Divx Codec

i know a program named Real Flow that works very good. But its hard to realy get the realistic water feeling in lightwave. I mean, if you take 5 drops real water and put it together. It will be a bigger drop. But in lightwave. they seam to emerge into a small one again.

Are you over your bandwidth limit? They won't download.

the best way of creating water effects is using real Flow i think. It has a niiiice exporter thing to lightwave :)

Here is a link to something I did a while ago. It might take in the right direction. Then again it may lead you horribly astray:D

http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthre...threadid=11851

The scenes need some sort of backdrop for the water to reflect.

the water looks very good, especialy for a 5 minute one. :).

i have to say that is the best water effect i have ever seen coming from lightwave.