Water Ripples or reflections.... 3

[coldfused]

Guys if you had a jpg of a river or something what would be the best way, or how would you make the effect of the water having a slight movement?

Thanks in advance....

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[TheConeHead]

check out

http://www.flashkit.com

for good tuts...

 

[coldfused]

I know where flash kit is at, but thanks anyways...

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[wangbar]

I'd go with taking the image into PhotoShop and using the 'liquify' tool to alter the shape of the water ripples on the river in a progressive fashion over maybe four or five steps. Then export out the images as a sequence into Flash and fade one into the other with the alpha setting (tweens or code) as a loop.

Might be a bit heavy on filesize (you could always use PNGs to just export the part you need to animate rather than save the full image each time) but it would look photoreal.

You could do something a bit lighter but less realistic with script. Bill had a link into a particle generator component a while back which did a few effects along these lines, maybe worth checking out.

 

[coldfused]

Thanks bro.

Liquify tool sounds good, will give it ago.

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[oldnewbie]

I know you know where FK is at, but you might want to have a quick look at these...

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effects/Eye_Candy/Reflecti-William_-5/index.php

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effects/Eye_Candy/Water_Re-Ambrose_-8/index.php

http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Effects/Special_Effects/Water_Ef-neofmatr-3696/index.php

Regards,

 

[coldfused]

Thanks old, those look great.

Guess I should have searched flashkit



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[TheConeHead]

hmmm flashkit? boy, that's an idea... someone should have suggested that earlier... wait a minute!

 

[oldnewbie]

I didn't just suggest, I went and did it!

Regards,

 

[TheConeHead]

well, then... way to go. . .

 

[coldfused]

There ya go cone head, pinkies all around........




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[TheConeHead]

thanx... but I was just being petty.... forgive me...