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Psunami Water tutorials.
Psunami Water has been out for awhile, so you
may already be familiar with its setup. These tutorials are a great
way to add to your basic understanding, or to delve into some deeper
uses of the plugin.


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Basics of Psunami
The artists revered Psunami, for now they
could truly make worlds. Go through the basics of setting
up a scene and adding a rainbow to brighten things up.
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Psunami underwater
Create an underwater
scene using a Psunami preset, tweaks to its characteristics,
and a light filter of your choice.
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Link to the Psunami Camera |
This tutorial explains how to link the Psunami camera to an After Effects comp camera using simple expressions. You will match the water up to an animated camera move. It's great info for anyone adding text, artwork, or 3D elements into the Psunami water scene.
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Compositing Recipe |
This tutorial discusses how to use the Depth Map Render Mode to composite another layer into a Psunami ocean scene. In short, you do this by duplicating the Depth Map and foreground Realistic layers, then changing the Threshold settings in the duplicated Depth Map layer. This type of compositing is a frequent question from Psunami users!
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Float an Object in Psunami |
This tutorial also goes over how to place an object along Psunami's ocean surface. You will make a beachball then float it along the Psunami waves. In this scenario, we use the Render What pop-up menu set to Water Only to Max Distance. for our compositing trickery. This type of compositing is a frequent question from Psunami users!
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Create
a Texture Map
This tutorial goes through how to create a texture map in
Psunami, and some tips for a quick setup. This movie is 13.0.
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Apply a
displace map
This tutorial shows how to apply a displacement map in Psunami,
by looking at how shades of gray work. This movie is 23.0 mb.
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Create shifting
sand
An unusual way to use a plugin designed to
create water simulations. Create sand dunes and a swirling
sand pit with Psunami.
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