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From: John Gross <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: More caustics problems
To: Kier <[e-mail]>
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>
> I've got my object properly textured and in stills it looks gorgeous, but
> as soon as I add a velocity and animate the thing it suddenly looks like
> there is a howling gale blowing on top of the pool. If I increase the
> velocity the waves speed up, but if I decrease it, they STILL speed up.
> Am I missing something really obvious? No amount of fiddling with the
> wave speed attribute or the texture velocity seems to achieve the gentle
> ripple affect (almost no wind) that I'm looking for. I just want to view
> the bottom of a pool on an idyllic windless day... not in the middle of
> hurricane Charlie.

Don't use Texture Velocity with any procedural that has wavespeed. By
doing so, you are moving the texture centers from where the waves emanate
which is not the desired effect in this case.

JG
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