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  8. Date: Thu, 6 Jul 95 09:42 BST-1
  9. From: snouty@cix.compulink.co.uk (Phil South)
  10. Subject: Re: HEAT waves
  11. To: lightwave@webcom.com
  12. Reply-To: snouty@cix.compulink.co.uk
  13. Message-Id: <memo.407729@cix.compulink.co.uk>
  14. Sender: owner-lightwave@webcom.com
  15. Precedence: bulk
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  17. In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9507051314.B25915-0100000@shell.globalone.net>
  18. > Try rendering your animation without the heat waves first, so that you 
  19. > have an image sequence on disk....then map this image sequence to a flat 
  20. > plane that will fill the screen...use 100% luminosity and 0% diffusity to 
  21. > avoid any color changes.  Put another flat plane directly in front of the 
  22. > first(offset by a small amount)...make this plane totally transparent 
  23. > with a decent amount of refraction and then use a moving Fractal Noise 
  24. > texture as a bump map to give the rippling effect.  You'll need to play 
  25. > around with the Fractal Noise settings to get the desired effect, but 
  26. > this will definitely work and it will cut your render times way down 
  27. > without screwing up the rest of the animation when you turn on Trace 
  28. > Refraction.
  29.  
  30.  
  31. Wasn't there a piece on this in Lightwave Pro? The Robocop fireball 
  32. tutorial?
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  37. Phil South <snouty@cix.compulink.co.uk>   bortaS blr jablu'DI'reH QaQqu' 
  38. nay'
  39.  
  40.                           "To be is to do" - Rousseau
  41.                            "To do is to be" - Sartre
  42.                           "Do be do be do" - Sinatra
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