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Title: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: icarus51 on January 03, 2017, 05:45:53 AM
Hi all, Happy New Year.

Please a favour. Does someone remember as the vortex shader must be put (in node network) for making effect on the water? Thanks in advance.
Greetings.
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: Dune on January 03, 2017, 11:38:02 AM
If you displace your water by say a pf, you can add the vortex after that, and it will vortex the displacement. Without displacement it doesn't do anything, see it as a kind of warper. So if you want a bathtubdrain-kind-of effect, add displacement by using a circular very soft simple shader that masks a perlin noise and also displaces down, then the vortex....
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: icarus51 on January 03, 2017, 03:21:27 PM
Hi Ulco,

Many thanks for your explanation. It's for this reason that i didn't manage to get this effect in my rendering. I was wrong the whole procedure :(.
Greetings.
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: Dune on January 04, 2017, 02:28:32 AM
You're welcome. Do post the result, if possible.
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water. Files.
Post by: icarus51 on January 08, 2017, 12:00:58 PM
Hello,

Some files for Vortex shader. I'm still trying to understand. These are some tests.
Ciao.
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: Dune on January 09, 2017, 02:40:06 AM
You're geting there.
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: bobbystahr on January 09, 2017, 12:48:28 PM
Yup, you've got it now...keep on tweakin
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: René on January 13, 2017, 04:52:23 AM
You might want to create some clouds so there is something to reflect on the water.
Maybe this will help:

Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: Hannes on January 13, 2017, 05:19:30 AM
Yes, looks great!!! René, reminds me of Pirates Of The Caribbean, don't remember which part.
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: René on January 13, 2017, 05:28:41 AM
The maelstrom in part three!
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: Hannes on January 13, 2017, 06:04:02 AM
Ah, yes!!
Title: Re: Vortex shader on the water.
Post by: bobbystahr on January 13, 2017, 12:01:08 PM
Quote from: René on January 13, 2017, 04:52:23 AM
You might want to create some clouds so there is something to reflect on the water.
Maybe this will help:



I found that as well when I made my 'caught in the whirlpool' image right after we got this shader.