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Animated waterfall?

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to ask if anyone knows how to create an animated waterfall, like the Rainbow Falls in Hawaii which were part of World Update XIII or the waterfalls seen in some 3rd party addons like NZA´s Milford sound. Is there a way to use a video file as a texture like you can do in blender, or do you animate the mesh itself?

Cheers, Fabian
 
you just need a copy of 3ds max, than you can create the same Asobo did using animated materials
with Blender is still not possible (afaik)
 
The Victoria falls add on looks like some of the falls are an animated rotating cylinder with a water texture, which is totally achievable with Blender. Add plenty of spray effects and it might look good enough.
 
superspud said:
The Victoria falls add on looks like some of the falls are an animated rotating cylinder with a water texture, which is totally achievable with Blender. Add plenty of spray effects and it might look good enough.
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I'll look into that, It was something I also thought about, though I thought there must be a more elegant way to achieve this.
 
superspud said:
The Victoria falls add on looks like some of the falls are an animated rotating cylinder with a water texture, which is totally achievable with Blender. Add plenty of spray effects and it might look good enough.
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OK the rotating cylinder works, kind of, although it´s pretty limited because it only works for relatively small, strongly curved waterfall. I´d need a waterfall that falls pretty much straight down a cliff and gets wider as it drops down, but I have no idea how to do that. If you come up with a possible solution, I´d be glad if you shared it. Thanks again!
 
superspud said:
Someone made an animated luggage conveyor belt in Blender with bones, which I guess would be the same principle, but going down rather than along.

Worth a look https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/rigging-animating-conveyor-belt/603462/4
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That looks promising, should also bei possible to scale the bones as they go down so the Spray of water becomes wider as it goes down. It's been a while since I worked with armatures, but I'll have to look into it, it seems the most flexible way to do it. Might also be possible to let the water flow ober crevices amd protruding rocks with this approach.
 
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