Modeling Shower Water

[VHILRA]

The VHIL is working on an environmental consciousness project that involves immersing participants in a shower.

We've tried using particles with physics which is somewhat decent but slows down very quickly. Another option was simply running textured cylinders in a for loop.

We're focusing on the view from the perspective of an avatar in the shower. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what we should try?

Thanks!

[Jeff]

You could use particle effects. Some samples can be found in this (http://forum.worldviz.com/showthread.php?t=3487) thread. You would need to modify one of the osg files there to get the water effect.

We have a precipitation plug-in documented in the Vizard Help that creates rain and snow effects. It's possible that could work for your application. You won't be able to specify a certain location for the water drops as they will fall throughout the entire scene. This may not be an issue if the view is from within the shower.