Tutorial: Making ocean waves for iClone in Blender

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Rampa	Rampa Posted 8 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 2 Weeks Ago Posts: 8.2K, Visits: 62.6K	Here's a tutorial I created that will guide you through the process of making animated ocean waves for Blender. You should have some familiarity working with Blender to do this.

CtrlZ	CtrlZ Posted 8 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 2 days ago Posts: 328, Visits: 4.5K	Thank you Rampa! Home built liquid cooled AMD Ryzen 7 1800X cpu (8 core 16 thread) 4.0GHz, rtx 3090, ASUS Crosshair VI Hero motherboard, 64 GB RAM, 500 GB SSD (Samsung 850 EVO) 6 TB HD's 4K monitor.

RobertoColombo	RobertoColombo Posted 8 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 4 Years Ago Posts: 1.6K, Visits: 3.0K	Great job Rampa! Trick: to create multiple bones with one click, copy-paste this script in Blender text Editor and run it (ALT+P) =========================================== import bpy amtname = 'My Armature' amt = bpy.data.armatures.new(amtname) obname = 'My Bone' ob = bpy.data.objects.new(obname, amt) scn = bpy.context.scene scn.objects.link(ob) scn.objects.active = ob ob.select = True bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='EDIT') cnt = 1 start_x = -5 end_x = 5 start_y = -5 end_y = 5 for index1 in range(start_x, end_x): for index2 in range(start_y, end_y): bone = amt.edit_bones.new('Bone' + str(cnt)) bone.head = (index1,index2,0) bone.tail = (index1,index2,1) cnt = cnt + 1 bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT') =========================================== The script creates a matrix of bones, ceneterd around the origin, and displaced by 1 Blender unit. Change start_x / end_x and start_y / end_y to adapt to your plane size Cheers Roberto My PC: OS: Windows 10 Pro English 64-bit / CPU: Intel i7-9700 3.6GHz / MB: ASUS ROG Strix Z390 RAM: 32GB DDR4 2.6GHz / HD: 2TB+3TB / SSD: 2x512GB Samsung 860 EVO + 1x2TB Samsung VB: Palit GTX2080 TI GamingPro 11GB / AB: embedded in the MB and VB (audio from the MOTU M4 I/F) / DirectX: 12

Kevin.S	Kevin.S Posted 8 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: Last Year Posts: 1.2K, Visits: 71.8K	Nice tutorial thanks ramp good tips Beautiful My iclone dream :-) Freelance Artist Kevin.S Email: animatemyart@gmail.com - Web Site: www.animatemyart.com

mark	mark Posted 8 Years Ago
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Rampa	Rampa Posted 8 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 2 Weeks Ago Posts: 8.2K, Visits: 62.6K	RobertoColombo (1/12/2017) Great job Rampa! Trick: to create multiple bones with one click, copy-paste this script in Blender text Editor and run it (ALT+P) =========================================== import bpy amtname = 'My Armature' amt = bpy.data.armatures.new(amtname) obname = 'My Bone' ob = bpy.data.objects.new(obname, amt) scn = bpy.context.scene scn.objects.link(ob) scn.objects.active = ob ob.select = True bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='EDIT') cnt = 1 start_x = -5 end_x = 5 start_y = -5 end_y = 5 for index1 in range(start_x, end_x): for index2 in range(start_y, end_y): bone = amt.edit_bones.new('Bone' + str(cnt)) bone.head = (index1,index2,0) bone.tail = (index1,index2,1) cnt = cnt + 1 bpy.ops.object.mode_set(mode='OBJECT') =========================================== The script creates a matrix of bones, ceneterd around the origin, and displaced by 1 Blender unit. Change start_x / end_x and start_y / end_y to adapt to your plane size Cheers Roberto This script works really well. It gives an instant 10 by 10 grid of non-hierarchical bones in a single armature. If you need more bones in a different layout, like for along a beach, run the script twice (or more) and reposition the multiple armatures so that you have a nice rectangular grid layout. Then select all the armatures and hit "Cntrl-J". This will join them into one. :)

RobertoColombo	RobertoColombo Posted 8 Years Ago
Distinguished Member Group: Forum Members Last Active: 4 Years Ago Posts: 1.6K, Visits: 3.0K	Hi Rampa, thanks for the appreciation. The script is the basic "skeleton" showing the principle: if you need to have the bones following some shapes, then it is just a matter of resolving the bone coordinates used by the inner "for" loops with a bit of math. In other words, something like (here "function" is a Python function that shall contain any math you can think of...): for x range(start_x, end_y): for y in range(start_y, end_y): bone_x = function(x) bone_y = function(y) bone = amt.edit_bones.new('Bone' + str(bone_x) + "_" str(bone_y)) bone.head = (bone_x,bone_y,0) bone.tail = (bone_x, bone_y,1) Note also something else: in this example I named the bone using its bone_x and bone_y coordinates (in the example I gave before it was named after an increment counter). Naming with the bone actual coordinates make it easier to find the bone once imported into iClone. Cheers Roberto My PC: OS: Windows 10 Pro English 64-bit / CPU: Intel i7-9700 3.6GHz / MB: ASUS ROG Strix Z390 RAM: 32GB DDR4 2.6GHz / HD: 2TB+3TB / SSD: 2x512GB Samsung 860 EVO + 1x2TB Samsung VB: Palit GTX2080 TI GamingPro 11GB / AB: embedded in the MB and VB (audio from the MOTU M4 I/F) / DirectX: 12

Tutorial: Making ocean waves for iClone in Blender

Tutorial: Making ocean waves for iClone in Blender

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