This movie shows you how to use an object as both an emitter and accelerator to create a tidal wave effect, then uses user and alembic caches to reduce the performance impact on your scene.

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Creating Creating a body of water simulation using Bifrost - Part 3: Creating and caching a tidal wave effect

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