Hi all,

I am looking for animated displacement, bump, normal and caustic maps. Are there any resources available out there? Maybe I wasn't looking in the right way, but Google was mostly giving me tutorials on how to make them in various softwares, instead of providing examples of ready made ones.

Also, is there a way to animate a shader in Carrara so that it would be rotating a map that I have? Or so that it would be scrolling a seamlessly tiled one up and down? I know that, for example, the noise factory option has a transform tab where I can set the noise to animate over time, but I don't see the tab in the Texture Map options. Is there a way around that? Are there plug-ins that can do that?

I have a ShaderGel plug-in from DCG and when I use a cellular-based color map in the shader for the Gel, I get an ugly seam line and the color map seems to wrap into a point in the middle of the light's influence. Seems to be some sort of weired UV mapping issue. What is the plug-in mapping the shader onto? and how can I get around the distortion?

Thanks.