https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36791#M18183 How about using a semi transparent texture of a waterfall with an alpha layer to put holes in it. You could then align this on a wall or a mesh.<BR /> <BR /> If you you wanted to make a moving water effect, you could code a library part to 'ripple' with each frame change in an animation. Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:52:58 GMT Anonymous 2007-09-14T13:52:58Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36790#M18182 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><R>How to create water falling effect??? water movement in Archicad ? <IMG src="https://community.graphisoft.com/legacyfs/online/emojis/icon_question.gif" style="display : inline;" /></R></DIV> Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:56:01 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36790#M18182 Anonymous 2007-09-14T02:56:01Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36791#M18183 How about using a semi transparent texture of a waterfall with an alpha layer to put holes in it. You could then align this on a wall or a mesh.<BR /> <BR /> If you you wanted to make a moving water effect, you could code a library part to 'ripple' with each frame change in an animation. Fri, 14 Sep 2007 13:52:58 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36791#M18183 Anonymous 2007-09-14T13:52:58Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36792#M18184 Yeah, but what happens with the bottom of the waterfall? There should be lots of effects... Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:14:55 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36792#M18184 Anonymous 2007-09-14T21:14:55Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36793#M18185 It would be lovely to have a single parametric waterfall with all the effects, but there isn't.<BR /> <BR /> You must build it, and with the complex profile and wall tool in Archicad 11, it is feasible. <BR /> <BR /> Our inventive colleague Frank Chin made an animated fountain that is freely available, but it remains cartoonish in effect.<BR /> A GDL tour-de-force, nontheless.<BR /> <BR /> The trick to a good waterfall, i suspect, is attention to detail - and several material surfaces, both opaque and transparent, applied to overlapping elements to exaggerate complexity.<BR /> <BR /> This would be an artistic challenge. I imagine that if it was a fairly architectural water cascade, the water would roll over a level precipice. You could make several curved and wavy complex profiles and apply them to several overlapping wavy walls. Use the water shader in LightWorks for this.<BR /> At the bottom of the spillway, there would be foam on a level plane - a slab perhaps, colliding with mesh elements at that level. You'd need to have several overlapping meshes [DNC's sea object, for instance or the "Water" object in our library] with different foam/wave shader combinations and at different amplitudes to create the multitude of effects a realistic cascade might have.<BR /> <BR /> I've had success with translucency or partial obscuring by duplicating a mesh, elevating the copy and placing a perforated material on the copy. This creates a depth effect that could make foam look translucent. Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:50:01 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-create-water-falling-effect/m-p/36793#M18185 Dwight 2007-09-14T21:50:01Z