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Dec 5^th, 2008 at 8:56pm

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How do i use the ocean ripple effect for the jet exhaust with out it doing it to the whole shot?
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Reply #1 - Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:26pm

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What I do is:

1. Take the lasso tool and have a feather on about 5-15 pix

2. Select a good blur area

3. Have a slight Gauaaian blur of about 2

4. Use the GLASS distortion because ocean ripple doesn't look good

5. Play around with those settings when you get to the menu till it looks good...

...and that pretty much it! Cheesy

It should look something like this:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/777dal1.jpg - added blur surrounding

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Reply #2 - Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:33pm

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skoker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:26pm:

What I do is:

1. Take the lasso tool and have a feather on about 5-15 pix

2. Select a good blur area

3. Have a slight Gauaaian blur of about 2

4. Use the GLASS distortion because ocean ripple doesn't look good

5. Play around with those settings when you get to the menu till it looks good...

...and that pretty much it! Cheesy

It should look something like this:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/777dal1.jpg - added blur surrounding

ok thanks man

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Reply #3 - Dec 5^th, 2008 at 11:36pm

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lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:33pm:

skoker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:26pm:

What I do is:

1. Take the lasso tool and have a feather on about 5-15 pix

2. Select a good blur area

3. Have a slight Gauaaian blur of about 2

4. Use the GLASS distortion because ocean ripple doesn't look good

5. Play around with those settings when you get to the menu till it looks good...

...and that pretty much it! Cheesy

It should look something like this:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/777dal1.jpg - added blur surrounding

ok thanks man

Just be VERY careful not to over do it. It can ruin the entire shot if you do. Wink

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Reply #4 - Dec 6^th, 2008 at 3:13pm

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If you duplicate the layer and do the blur on that you can reduce the opacity of the layer when done to make the effect more subtle, or use the eraser etc. You can just reduce the strength of the effect immediately of course, but only the last action - so it's best to use a new layer.

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Reply #5 - Dec 6^th, 2008 at 10:37pm

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skoker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:26pm:

What I do is:

1. Take the lasso tool and have a feather on about 5-15 pix

2. Select a good blur area

3. Have a slight Gauaaian blur of about 2

4. Use the GLASS distortion because ocean ripple doesn't look good

5. Play around with those settings when you get to the menu till it looks good...

...and that pretty much it! Cheesy

It should look something like this:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/777dal1.jpg - added blur surrounding

I disagree. The ocean ripple effect can be done to look very realistic depending on the size and magnitude of the ripple. I have mine both set at 9, and get a very nice heat shimmer effect.

See here
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/calltheball2.jpg

My specs... A hard drive, motherboard, graphics card, some memory, a keyboard, mouse, and monitor - in other words, nothing special.&&&&My Posky 777 VC settings - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1218341439&&Posky 777 and FSX jetways - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1228448408

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Reply #6 - Dec 6^th, 2008 at 11:16pm

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gtirob01 wrote on Dec 6^th, 2008 at 10:37pm:

skoker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:26pm:

What I do is:

1. Take the lasso tool and have a feather on about 5-15 pix

2. Select a good blur area

3. Have a slight Gauaaian blur of about 2

4. Use the GLASS distortion because ocean ripple doesn't look good

5. Play around with those settings when you get to the menu till it looks good...

...and that pretty much it! Cheesy

It should look something like this:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/777dal1.jpg - added blur surrounding

I disagree. The ocean ripple effect can be done to look very realistic depending on the size and magnitude of the ripple. I have mine both set at 9, and get a very nice heat shimmer effect.

See here
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/calltheball2.jpg

yeah i prefer the ocean ripple

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Reply #7 - Dec 7^th, 2008 at 1:23pm

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lunitic_8 wrote on Dec 6^th, 2008 at 11:16pm:

gtirob01 wrote on Dec 6^th, 2008 at 10:37pm:

skoker wrote on Dec 5^th, 2008 at 10:26pm:

What I do is:

1. Take the lasso tool and have a feather on about 5-15 pix

2. Select a good blur area

3. Have a slight Gauaaian blur of about 2

4. Use the GLASS distortion because ocean ripple doesn't look good

5. Play around with those settings when you get to the menu till it looks good...

...and that pretty much it! Cheesy

It should look something like this:
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/777dal1.jpg - added blur surrounding

I disagree. The ocean ripple effect can be done to look very realistic depending on the size and magnitude of the ripple. I have mine both set at 9, and get a very nice heat shimmer effect.

See here
http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/calltheball2.jpg

yeah i prefer the ocean ripple

I just don't like it because If you notice in your picture that it rips apart your tail which I don't like.

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Reply #8 - Dec 7^th, 2008 at 1:51pm

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In that picture yes, it did distort that part of the tail section. I was still testing different ways to do it. I still use the same idea, just in a way now that doesnt make any part of the aircraft look like that. Just practice as with anything else.

My specs... A hard drive, motherboard, graphics card, some memory, a keyboard, mouse, and monitor - in other words, nothing special.&&&&My Posky 777 VC settings - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1218341439&&Posky 777 and FSX jetways - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1228448408

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