SpeedSix.Puddle (Discreet Box4)
PURPOSE
Simulates rain falling on to water.
INPUT CLIPS
1: Puddle Surface
2: Regional Matte
: Modulate the intensity of the rain drops by the luminance of the matte clip. Useful for limiting the area rainfall.
Puddle CONTROL PAGE
Restart Rain (Pushbutton)
Restart simulation. Several of the controls [marked *] will NOT re-process and have no effect until the 'Restart' is hit.
Rain Freq (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 5.0)
[*]Rain frequency - drops created per frame.
Rain Impact (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 1.0)
[*]Rain impact - wave frequency. The higher the value the more the ripples are seen per drop
Rain Radius (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 10.0)
[*]Rain radius - maximum spread at death.
Rain Endurance (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 1.0)
[*]Rain endurance - time to death in seconds.
Rain Wave Ht (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 10.0)
Rain amplitude - wave height.
Refract Index (Number Min: -10.0, Max: 10.0, Default: 1.2)
Refractive index of the material into which the drops fall. At 1.0 there is no distortion of the image.
Restart From (Number Min: -1000, Max: 0, Default: -14)
[*]Restart from the nominated frame. Negative numbers will cut into the sequence having been raining for that many frames.
FillMode (List Box Options: EdgeDup | Black | Wrap, Default: EdgeDup)
If the rippling needs information from outside the image area the chosen option is used to fill in the missing information.
Output Map (Checkbox Default: Off)
Output is the grey level ripple information.
Seed (Number Min: 0, Max: 999, Default: 567)
Change to generate a different sequence of drops falling.
ChromaticAb (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 0.0)
Interesting colour anomalies caused by diverging the RGB channels when refracting the light.
Use Matte (Checkbox Default: Off)
Use the matte input to limit the area of the effect.
Invert Matte (Checkbox Default: Off)
Invert intensity of the matte clip: black->white and white->black.
Demos (List Box Options: Pit-a-Pat | Brollies Up | Plip-Plop | Flood Alert, Default: Pit-a-Pat)
Select a preset to get you going.
Light CONTROL PAGE
Lighting (Checkbox Default: Off)
Turn on the lighting effects.
Light Bright (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 200.0, Default: 100.0)
The brightness of the light.
Light (Position Default: 0.75, 0.75)
The XY light position.
LightZ (Number Min: 0.05, Max: 5.0, Default: 0.5)
Position of the light in Z.
Gloss (Number Min: 1.0, Max: 1000.0, Default: 45.0)
How shiny the surface is.
Contrast (Number Min: 0.0, Max: 100.0, Default: 100.0)
Reduces the intensity of the input clip, leaving the ripples paramount.
Light Colour (Colour Box Default: white)
The light source colour.