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Arcturus

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It's a 50 frame loop. You can flip the uv map horizontally. You probably can play back the texture bit slower so it's longer (but less smooth). You could make longer animation. Perhaps the pattern could be a bit more uniform. Anyway it's a loop so in the end it will repeat.

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Ironically naturally drops trickling down glass tend to be repetitive, you have to apply oil, dirt, airflow or a wetting agent in a different location to get the paths to not follow a similar way (if not the identical path) each time. Depending on the source of water, it can be remarkably temporally consistent too.

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Blimey I feel quite pampered just looking at those videos. =-P

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i wonder if you wash more streams of rain down the window in a busier fashion if you could trick the eye into missing the repetitiveness.

Alternatively maybe you could blend multiple scrolling rain normals on top of eachother with different timings, and randomize the starting position of each before a sequence starts?

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nbohr1more

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I must admit that I like the current example so much that I'm having a little trouble with this "constructive criticism". I suppose any random end-user might say the same things though.

OTOH... how many commercial games even have a rain on window effect? My 2 cents: This would be cool to have repetitive or not. :wub:

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I suppose any random end-user might say the same things though.

ouch. i don't think there's anything wrong with the work at all, it looks phenomenal. This is all very new to TDM, so I think its natural that observers start wondering about how far these new-to-TDM techniques can be pushed. But its obviously not required or expected that arcturus get straight to work improving things to meet approval of the peanut gallery. been thinking about toying with it myself.

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Arcturus

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I must admit that I like the current example so much that I'm having a little trouble with this "constructive criticism".

That's ok :) I also think it could use some more drops. Right now the effect is maybe a bit to subtle.

Alternatively maybe you could blend multiple scrolling rain normals on top of eachother with different timings, and randomize the starting position of each before a sequence starts?

It could work, but you would have straight paths of drops and they would not change shape.

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Just added this into my mission and its looking great, thanks! :)

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I made a tutorial explaining the process of creating the drops:

 

http://youtu.be/_WigtOd26dU

 

Were your water efforts added to TDM 2.02?

 

I would like to update the Moddb article with a few more videos...

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You should find it in Goldwells mission.

 

Btw.: Very good job, arcturus. I've missed this here but just saw it in GW's mission and it looks bloody amazing.

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I was also speaking of the other water assets such as the reflective water. (These are all great showcase videos, I wish they could be used in the article... oh well).

 

I made a 50 frames animated normalmap similar to the one posted by Rich_is_bored. It's made in Blender using the same ocean modifier so the pattern is the same as in the video above. The normalmap is also scrolled. The effect is similar to a single scrolling normalmap but it's slightly better, especially for still water.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76tmYwLcqO0

 

Normalmap frames: https://www.dropbox....er_normalmap.7z

 

 

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