CompuServe Thread

hi there: having seen what can be done with ipas3, like flame/vapor…, i have come up with an idea for an AXP. program that i would find very useful and i think can have a very dranmatic effect. not being an ipas programer i dont know what the limits are but i will outline what i would like to see: WAVE/white water axp. this would be an axp that would simulate breaking ocean waves or river white water. the axp would probably be applied to a rectangular box which would simulate the surface of the water where waves would be breaking. some of the controls would be as follows 1-wave amplitude,length as a %of box size, and period. 2-wave breaking shape. from a flat mush to a full tube(north shore pipeline).0 for flat breaking waves to 100 for full curls. 3-turbulance. how clean the breaking is. 4-wind direction for control of the spray from the breaking waves. 5- start end frames. start is the first frame when the swells get generated. end is the frame when all activity stops. 6- controlls for swell direction and source number and swell relitive angle. for example we can set the ipas to generate very orderly parallel swells or we can have swells the are at a relitive angle to one another and have slightly different periods. 7- overall chaos factor for creating variance. to control the number of breaking waves and their interaction, what i think could work is for the ipas to use a base shape . basically the user through displase or fractlize would create a ocean/river bed surface. this object will then be positioned in the box at the needed angle and linked to it. the surface shape will act as the depth gage for trigering breaking waves. the axp will generate swells from one extream end of the box, as swells pass over the base shape, depending on the particular positions depth, the swells will grow bigger and smaller untill the criticl depth is reached when they start breaking according to the break charactristics settings. i am sure that there are other controlls needed,but this is what i can think of now. let me know what you think. if any one is interested in developing this ipas i will for sure be their 1st customer<G>. i think this will be very cool tool that i havent really seen on any platform! hope to hear from you soon ara