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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.

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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