Hi
I have a scene where water spurts out from a radiator. The water spurts to the right of the room (as shown).
Some attempts I'v made have not been satisfactory. Can you help with a decent spurting animation or have some advice?
Image shown is actual size.
(http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x423/qikfire/RADWATER_zps0cb3f47b.png)
cheers
slasher
Can we see some of your attempts? Also there are a lot of cool flooding water animations in The Dig, look there for reference, also you shouldn't mix pixel resolutions.
Yeah, I can understand your problem. Spraying water is not easy to animate in a way that looks good.
Don't know what your scenario is precisely, but does it actually have to squirt out like that?
Given fire hydrants do that, but the pressure inside radiators is not that high.
It would probably produce at very short and tiny squall (when the radiator is opened or raptured) and then it'd trickle down
the pipe and produce a puddle on the ground that gets larger and larger.
That's way easier to animate at least.
Well, I decided to do the spurting water as a separate object. Shorter spurt distance (just long enough) and set it Transparent around 80%.
Bare in mind the room is quite dark
Does not look too bad. Well, as an attempt. 8-)
If you have a finished Background image I could try to make the spurt with particles in after effects. Every now and then I play around with AE and this seems like a good thing to do with it and get some more practise with AE. But I haven't found a way to render out pngs or gifs with transparency so I'd need the totally finished background or at least the area where the watersprout will be seen. Applying changes to this will be tricky afterwards of course. And if you have some different images to indicate the puddle getting bigger I can also add this in.