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# 1 09-03-2003 , 08:47 AM

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Hi there SM'ayans

ok how do I make a center of a ripple effect, kind like when you drop a drop of water in a pond or something

my best guess is a nurbs plane and I select circular UV's and drag them up and down witha diminshing radius, pretty silly, primitive and retarded too, eh?

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# 2 09-03-2003 , 11:45 AM

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umm try www.highend3d.com somewhere in there they have some scripts on this kind of thing

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# 3 09-03-2003 , 02:58 PM

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This one's easy.

Use a wave deformer. Pick your plane object, then choose Deform > Create Nonlinear > Wave.

To get it to animate, animate the wave deformer's offset parameter.

Remember to set the amplitude greater than 0 if you want to see anything. user added image