I’d like to make an animated ripple effect: a set of waves that progresses in a circular manner, just as when a water drop falls onto a water surface.
A static ripple is easily obtained with a looping radial gradient (gradient: white - black - white ; loop: checked). But I cannot animate it in a satisfactory manner to get the effect of waves that smoothly progress towards the circle border, while a new wave appears.
I tried various ways:
gradient rotate (offset: [-0.5; 0.5]) the wave moves, but it introduces a white interval instead of shifting the part of gradient that is being offset-ed:
animating the position of the gradients C-points -> the 2 gradients transit by shading instead of moving/shifting.:
Changing the size or location of the wave does not help in making a new one appear obviously. All these experiments are in the attached sif file if you want to try it out.
that’s what I did in the first test described above (and in the provided sifz file), but instead of looping/repeating the gradient part that is invisible into the new interval, it puts a simple white color in this region… as you can see in the attached image.
Looks to me as if the gradient rotate does not support / take into account the “loop” attribute of the layer.
Sorry, I did a quick and dirty reply.
It is a bug, indeed. (Weirdly it used to work long time ago)
If you want to help us, please report it in the bug tracker of sourceforge.
Thanks
-G
Hello Saorsa,
Your way of achieving ripples by growing circles with a mask is effective, thanks for this idea. I’ll nevertheless wait for the rotating gradient bug to be fixed as it should be way easier to tailor and more performance savvy.
bump for bug sourceforge.net/tracker/index.p … tid=757416 that kills gradient rotate… if some developper has some spare time in the course of releases… even though I’d prefer SVG import to be fixed first.
Sorry for not being able to code properly and thanks for your (already!) great work.
B.
and thanks for your (already!) great work.