Animating Ponds and Waterfalls

Artwork Work in Progress [WIP]
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#1

We have been 3D scanning our koi ponds and pondless waterfalls as we build them. We finally managed to get some shape key animations working in AR, thanks @nebulousflynn for pointing me in the right direction.

I managed to get wave shape keys, on both the falls and water. I have the fluid sim, but the only way I could think to get it to work on Sketchfab was using 1 frame of the fluid sim mesh and apply a wave effect to it to get the stream to animate. I would love to hear a better way to animate the waterfalls.

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#2

Hi your presentation is really nicely done, regarding the area that water might be flowing i might suggest you play around with an effect that is doable in blender.
The artist that demonstrated this effect on a model here:

but the fundamentals of this effect could be used to create flow areas in your presentation, relatively straight forward , but in your case you might need to play around with , perhaps using a cylinder as your base along with material improvements on the water on sketch itself that would compliment this effect

the artist with the original idea also kindly provided a quick tutorial on the fundamental trick of this here:

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#3

Thanks for that tip, I tried some of that today, I might be able to make the deform work with a bit more tweaking.

I think I am compromising with materials of the water, we want it visible in Augmented reality as well as on the screen. Haven’t been able to make water that looks great, yet.