Poser moving water?

[seachnasaigh]

When I tried to load that material it came out as blank. No nodes.

Edit: Ooops! The MT5 is indeed empty. I'll re-do it. Don't load it as a material! It is only a group of nodes (not a complete material). Instead, *add* it to the existing water material. That dumps the new nodes into the material workspace on top of your existing water material; then you connect the ouput of the new nodes to drive the displacement. Re-use whatever nodes you had providing color, transparency, and reflection.

The advantages of using this node group (rather than the sequential JPGs) is that this is infinitely adjustable; you can cover a small pond or a vast stretch of sea; you can texture a small calm pond or a swiftly running stream; you can set the timing for an economical 8 frame per second GIF or time it for a 30 frame per second video clip.

The node group is procedural, so it is fast to render, and very economical on memory usage.

 

[Janet]

Cool! Thank you!

 

[seachnasaigh]

I'll try to link a demo of the stargate "puddle".

 

[Janet]

That is so cool but mine doesn't look anything like that.

 

[Janet]

This is what I got.

I made both the whooshes visible. 40 frame superfly at 8.

 

[seachnasaigh]

Hmmm... maybe screenshot your render settings?

The Ka-Whoosh! (and its corona) is only intended for still shots; I was working quickly and didn't develop an animated morph and texture for it.

 

[Janet]

So should I leave those two invisible? There's no mesh in the middle of the stargate otherwise and I can't figure out what's going to be animated.

 

[seachnasaigh]

There should be a prop named event horizon parented to the stargate; tick it to be visible.
The puddle material loops every thirty frames.

I used these Superfly settings; for an animation you'd want to lower the overall pixel samples to maybe twenty or thirty.

 

[Ken Gilliland]

In regards to water animation, Chuck's (Nerd3D) Splash tool is a great resource for animated water in Poser

 

[Janet]

Thank you Seach! I'll give it a try.

Thank you Ken! I was wondering how to make splashes!

 

[Janet]

Got it! This is going to be so much fun! What a cool product!