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You might also want to take a look at Realwave for water surfaces.
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: owner-xsi@(protected)
> [mailto:owner-xsi@(protected)] On Behalf Of Adam Seeley
> Sent: 16 April 2004 10:07
> To: 'XSI@(protected)'
> Subject: RE: animating a boat in the water
>
> Hi,
>
> There is one main serious flaw in the Arete port to XSI.
>
> The geometry animations - Wave swells, ripples and wakes
> don't update when rendering.
>
> You could try plotting shapes.
>
> For flat water/oceans the Shader still looks great.
>
> With a bit of tinkering in the rendertree you can extract the
> black and white bump information from the shader which you
> can then render out as a texture map & then reapply onto UV surfaces.
>
> A.
>
> > -- --Original Message-- --
> > From: Stefan Andersson [mailto:stefana@(protected)]
> > Sent: 15 April 2004 21:14
> > To: XSI@(protected)
> > Subject: Re: animating a boat in the water
> >
> >
> > Spangler Christy wrote:
> > > Hi all...
> > >
> > > I am a bit new to xsi and am not sure exactly how to
> start with >
> > animating a boat moving through water and was wondering if
> anyone who
> > > has done such an animation could point me to some advice,
> tutorials,
> > > addons, or reccomend a 3rd party tool, etc.
> >
> > When I worked at Filmtecknarna F. Animation we used Arete
> Psunami for
> > XSI 2.01. I have no idea if you can run it with later
> versions of XSI
> > (it has been discussed a few times). But either way I recommend the
> > Arete version for Softimage|3D more than the XSI version.
> > Unfortantly the port to XSI was far from stable, and had
> some serious
> > render bugs and other issues (I blame PhoenixTools for
> that). But the
> > Softimage|3D version was really nice to use.
> >
> > http://www.areteis.com/
> >
> > "Latest News" are from 2002, so I would count on anything to be
> > updated.
> >
> > best regards
> >
> > /stefan andersson
> >
> >
> > --
> > Stefan Andersson
> > Freelancing Pixel Abuser
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