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Fountain Animation

jtanabodee

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I'd like to ask about this fountain. I found this in Need for Speed. I wonder if it is possible to do the fountain like this in FSX or FS9.

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Yes, I believe so.
Interestingly I was just working on creating my own fountain (all be it on a much smaller scale just a few days ago).

I started with fx_waterSplashMed.fx since it had a pretty nice ripple effect along with it.
The most important things that I change was the lifetime of each emitter to 0 so that it would be continuous.
Then I reduced the scale of each particle to a suitable size. (Most likely an increase in your case).
For a fountain like yours, the second most important thing that I think you need to change is the X,Y and Z velocity of each emitter. That will control the direction that the water path takes.
Of course you would need more emitters since you have multiple fountains.

Its a matter of experimentation. If you are not familiar with the FXEditor and FX code I can help you out, but what I outlined above should be the basics to get you started.
 
Do you have any tutorial for creating the effect, Mousy? I looked in the wiki and there is none.
The sdk about effect is not clear enough for layman like me. I have already read that but I don't understand.

It is like trial and error if we don't understand the parameter of it. FX editor help much about this.
Anyway, I though may be it is possible to this on gmax and animation.
 
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Sorry, I do not have any tutorial.
I recommend that you open up the effect I suggested in FX editor and change X,Y and Z particle velocity parameters to see what they do. Best way to learn.

You could go ahead and ask about specific parameters and I will do my best to explain.
Sorry that I cannot tell you exactly how to get what you want.

Animating it may be possible, though there may be others who have better ideas about animating.
I'm thinking one way to do it could be to model the fountain multiple times, each with a slightly different image, then move them quickly in and out of view, in a loop.
 
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