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The Stats
- Developer: Digital Element
- Platforms: Windows, Mac
- Compatibility with After Effects and Premiere CS4, Compatibility with After Effects 7, Compatibility with After Effects CS3, Mac OSX Leopard Compatibility
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Description
Aurora Water is a unique After Effects plug-in which lets you create circular waves, add reflections, refraction, volumetric light rays and submerged objects. Aurora Water simulates all water types, from ponds to oceans.
Aurora Water is designed to work in close conjunction with Aurora Sky, Digital Element's other natural plug-in for After Effects. Aurora Water differs from other water plug-ins in its specialized ability to simulate interactive surface dynamics. Whether you're dipping an animated character's toe into a pond or sailing an ocean liner, Aurora Water will automatically generate an appropriately scaled ripple or a bow wave.
How robust is Aurora Water in integrating with Video?
- You can place video as a 3D layer inside Aurora Water's 3D space. The 3D layers will reflect in the water, as will the sky. Additionally, 3D layers underwater will refract with the motion of the water.
Can I use After Effects' camera inside Aurora Water 3D space?
- Aurora allows using After Effects' cameras inside its own 3D space. The built-in camera can fly throughout the vast world within the plug-in, using all the standard axis controls. Even cooler, Aurora Water is built to utilize AE’s 3D camera. As you move or turn the After Effects camera, Aurora Water will update its environment as a seamless part of the scene. This integration makes it simple to make composite other 3D objects over the skyscape created with the plug-in.
Features
Aurora Water allows you to create realistic animated water. This plug-in gives you a wide variety of effects that are substantially different from other water plug-ins.
Aurora Water is the perfect tool for creating animated water with waves, reflection, and refraction in your AE or FCP composition when you don’t have the time, skill set, or tools to build them in a 3D program. It also keeps you safely tucked into AE’s production pipeline, so you don't deal with render or import issues.
Aurora Water is a practical and creative plug-in for digital compositing, landscape and traditional architecture, game development, web design, and basically anyone who needs animated water.
Aurora Water allows you to create realistic water. This plug-in gives you a wide variety of special effects that are substantially more powerful and flexible than simple water algorithms.
Aurora Water lets you go below the surface. Light from above (“God Rays”) shine down into the depths. Objects become distorted in the water based on the turbulence and other factors.
Integrates with Aurora Sky
Enhance scenes with dynamic Aurora Sky with seamless integration with Aurora Water.
Aurora Water allows you to create skies with a sun, moon and clouds both by using its own controls and by importing Aurora Sky output files. The imported skies can be animated with Aurora Water’s standard controls.
Aurora Water works in 3D space, both its own and After Effect’s. The built-in camera can fly throughout the vast world within the plug-in, using all the standard axis controls.
Aurora Water is built to utilize AE’s 3D camera (5.0 and later). As you move or turn the After Effects camera, Aurora will update its environment as a seamless part of the scene. This integration makes it simple to composite other 3D objects over the water and skyscape created with the plug-in.
Using radial waves, it is easy to add interaction between objects and the water, whether it’s rain or a pebble hitting the surface of a lake or a character walking on water.
System Requirements
Aurora Sky requires Adobe After Effects version 5.0 or higher installed on your computer. The full installation requires approximately 10Mb of the hard disk space.
PC
- Windows 98, Windows NT4 SP5+, Windows 2000, Windows XP
- 512MB RAM
- Pentium IV or Athlon XP
- 120MB Hard Drive space for Installation
- 1024x768 true color monitor
- CD-ROM drive
Mac
- Mac OS 9.2, Mac OS X version 10.x
- 512MB RAM
- PowerPC G4
- 120MB Hard Drive space for Installation
- 1024x768 true color monitor
- CD-ROM drive
