Animation of drainage around a house

[LarryAZ]

I want to do a QT movie showing storm drainage around a house. Are any of you familiar with software that I can use with VW or stand alone that will let me animate something looking like water flowing around a 3D final render image? What I want is something like you see on the Discovery Channel that makes the complex simple and easy to understand.

Thanks

[Pat Stanford]

AnimationWorks might do what you want. If not, you will proabbaly need to go to something like Cinema 4D and do the rendering in that.

AnimationWorks is a VectorWorks plug-in produced by Julian Carr, the Australian distributor of VW. It is available at http://www.ozcad.com.au/otherproducts/vwaddonsAW.html

Check out the demo movies for Waterfall and Air Flow (second and third on the left hand side.

Pat

[LarryAZ]

Thanks Pat, this does look like it should be able to do what I want.

I downloaded the software, manual, and tutorial file but I can't find a step by step type instructions that usually accompany the tutorial file. Anyone know if this exists? Or a QT instruction video?