Thread: Realflow / EIAS advice requested

Hi Ross and Edgard, Thanks for your input. I agree that the contact point is a bit unrefined. A bit too particle-y. A cloudy mist effect along that edge sweeping up might help to integrate it better with the ground more. Maybe a KMyst or FTurb shader on a form sliding just at the front edge of the wave. Mr Blobby is something that I have used in the past but I find it a bit limiting since it is slow and tends to balloon up the geometry too...

Not the article that I was looking for but this one talks about some of the cheats that they used in The Guardian: http://www.cgw.com/Publications/CGW.../High-Seas.aspx

Hej Bill, I don`t know why, for me that front part still looks as if a heavy cloudburst patters directly into the front of the wave...can`t explain it better. But I don`t know if it is so important and there`s no need to criticize that too much. I am not sure if I could come half as close to what you did here. And I am still inspired of your genius idea concerning that rotating cylinder representing the water wheel. Really cool ;-) Best Tom

Correct... that be a daunting task

I have done RF projects at the scale of a glass of water, and it still takes quite a while. RF is very slow to calculate. I am sure that when RF is used in the movies for ocean effects they have a render farm working for months to generate the fluid solution. This is not cheap. Have you looked at "Pacifica"? Pacifica It shows ocean and wave effects done entirely in EIAS. (with a little AE thrown in). You could also look into...

You could have a look at Blender fluids. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AiLyQWXjIg You should be able to import the geometry into EIAS.....

Quote: Originally Posted by WHD Hi All, I'm in discussions with a client about a potential project. The client among other things wants to simulate a Psunami hitting a village and has asked about using Realflow to do this. I have tested it with a glass of water and that worked but the view for this project is wide so that about 500 feet of coastline and 500 feet inland are visible. My guess is that this is unlikely to work as a realflow...

I agree with the others. The wave itself looks great. But the front edge just isn't quite right. I think a finer mist might help push it over the top. You're almost there. And for someone only seeing it once, they probably wouldn't notice anything. It's only when you get the chance to watch it over and over that things start jumping out that need to be worked on. Ross

Just trying to help, have you tried with mr blobby?Or morphing the rolling cylinder to a flat plane? Edgard