What is the best video water ripple effect plugin for dreams?
Wednesday, February 28, 2007 by xgman | Discussion: Animated Wallpapers
I'm wondering what program and plug-in effect is the best to use to add water ripple effects to pictures of lakes, etc, to then convert to a reasonably hi def video for dreams? Any suggestions? Thanks.
Yosmel
Reply #2 Sunday, March 4, 2007 4:58 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, March 4, 2007 4:58 PM
wow that's got to be one of the best waterfall dreams I've seen yet.
The only gripe I have with it are the ripples at the bottom of the screen - they're moving WAAAY to fast (or something... it don't look right).
MasterBaron if you could fix that little detail it would be a rocking dream
The only gripe I have with it are the ripples at the bottom of the screen - they're moving WAAAY to fast (or something... it don't look right).
MasterBaron if you could fix that little detail it would be a rocking dream
TheMasterBaron
Reply #3 Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:09 PM
Reply #3 Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:09 PM
Yosmel, I reworked the water, and added some small details. You can get the new dream here.
Another Waterfall v2
Be sure to clear your DreamScape cache before running this new dream as it has the same name as the one I posted earlier and DreamScape will use the old video file. You can get a .bat file from my website that makes it easy to do.
My Website
Another Waterfall v2
Be sure to clear your DreamScape cache before running this new dream as it has the same name as the one I posted earlier and DreamScape will use the old video file. You can get a .bat file from my website that makes it easy to do.
My Website
Yosmel
Reply #4 Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:33 PM
Reply #4 Sunday, March 4, 2007 10:33 PM
Awesome. Im gonna take another look at it. Thanks for actually listening to me, it truly is one of the best waterfall dreams I've seen yet. Downloading as I type this 
Also - It appears that the link to your batch file isnt working quite right. There's got to be a way to clear the cache through explorer, wont simply deleting temp files and the such do the trick?
Also - It appears that the link to your batch file isnt working quite right. There's got to be a way to clear the cache through explorer, wont simply deleting temp files and the such do the trick?
TheMasterBaron
Reply #5 Sunday, March 4, 2007 11:10 PM
Reply #5 Sunday, March 4, 2007 11:10 PM
Try and right-click on the link and do a save-as to save it to your hard drive. Then find it and double click it. Or, you can manually delete the cache by deleting this folder: C:\ProgramData\Stardock\DeskScapes\ExtractedData
Thanks for the compliment. I have made even more tweaks to after this last upload, but I think I'll let it run a while on my desktop before I upload it again to make sure it's "finished"
Master Baron
Thanks for the compliment. I have made even more tweaks to after this last upload, but I think I'll let it run a while on my desktop before I upload it again to make sure it's "finished"
Master Baron
Bichur
Reply #6 Sunday, March 4, 2007 11:16 PM
I knew there was something I was gonna check yesterday!
Reply #6 Sunday, March 4, 2007 11:16 PM
I just got this one for free yesterday on the Give Away of the Day site
I knew there was something I was gonna check yesterday!
TheMasterBaron
Reply #7 Monday, March 5, 2007 10:03 AM
Reply #7 Monday, March 5, 2007 10:03 AM
sydneysiders
Reply #8 Monday, March 5, 2007 10:10 AM
I just checked.....and it's still free today.....but you probably won't see this until tomorrow.....then your doomed!!..... 
Reply #8 Monday, March 5, 2007 10:10 AM
knew there was something I was gonna check yesterday!
I just checked.....and it's still free today.....but you probably won't see this until tomorrow.....then your doomed!!.....
Bichur
Reply #9 Monday, March 5, 2007 10:39 AM
Not when I checked (last night either) - today is a registry cleaner - the trial version of Nature Illusion is available at their home site.
Reply #9 Monday, March 5, 2007 10:39 AM
I just checked.....and it's still free today...
Not when I checked (last night either) - today is a registry cleaner - the trial version of Nature Illusion is available at their home site.
ALMonty
Reply #10 Monday, March 5, 2007 11:02 AM
Reply #10 Monday, March 5, 2007 11:02 AM
If anyone uses XP you can try this little program WWW Link . It's called GT Ripple.
From the website:
What is GT Ripple?
GT Ripple ripples your desktop wallpaper making water pictures come alive. You can even put a lake into a picture that has no water by using the mirror option!
I used this before works pretty good.
From the website:
What is GT Ripple?
GT Ripple ripples your desktop wallpaper making water pictures come alive. You can even put a lake into a picture that has no water by using the mirror option!
I used this before works pretty good.
Bichur
Reply #11 Monday, March 5, 2007 11:05 AM
Reply #11 Monday, March 5, 2007 11:05 AM
And if you turn it vertical - and paint lightly - you can get a heat rising effect of fires, torches, etc.
sydneysiders
Reply #12 Monday, March 5, 2007 11:15 AM
you're right....I just saw the Nature Illusion name & Give Away of the Day on the top.....teach me to be a smartarse!....thanks for the tip.....not that I have Vista..
...but it looks like fun to play with....
Reply #12 Monday, March 5, 2007 11:15 AM
Not when I checked (last night either)
you're right....I just saw the Nature Illusion name & Give Away of the Day on the top.....teach me to be a smartarse!....thanks for the tip.....not that I have Vista..
...but it looks like fun to play with....
xgman
Reply #13 Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:09 PM
Reply #13 Saturday, March 17, 2007 1:09 PM
I used Nature Studio to make a ripple AVI and converted it to a .dream, but then it wouldn't play when I choose it in dreamscape. What compression type should be used in Nature Studio when making tghe avi?
TheMasterBaron
Reply #14 Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:30 PM
I What compression type should be used in Nature Studio when making tghe avi?
xgman,
Choose "Microsoft Windows Media Video 9" and it will create a .wmv file instead of an .avi file.
Reply #14 Sunday, March 18, 2007 5:30 PM
I What compression type should be used in Nature Studio when making tghe avi?
xgman,
Choose "Microsoft Windows Media Video 9" and it will create a .wmv file instead of an .avi file.
AzDude
Reply #15 Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:47 PM
you can then put AVI file in most movie making programs and convert to mpg or wmv from there -
Reply #15 Sunday, March 18, 2007 11:47 PM
What compression type should be used in Nature Studio when making the avi?
you can then put AVI file in most movie making programs and convert to mpg or wmv from there -
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Reply #1 Sunday, March 4, 2007 4:03 PM
Nature Illusion Studio Pro
Another Waterfall.dream
Hope this is helpful,
Master Baron