#Particle playground waterfall free#

The outhouses can be seen on the right almost entirely buried in snow. Walking through the Alexander Falls parking lot covered in almost 2 metres of snow on a beautiful, sunny winter day. Callaghan Valley Road is snow plowed all winter, which allows easy access to Alexander Park even in the depths of winter! The parking lot is not plowed, so you just have to park in a cleared section just off the road and walk a couple hundred metres to the viewpoint. In the winter months the Callaghan Valley is a winter wonderland with deep snow everywhere. Another benefit of going to Alexander Falls in the fall is that you will likely have the valley to yourselves. Despite the deteriorating weather and frequent rainfall, the drive up the Callaghan Valley will be flanked by fall coloured leaves. The fall months can be quite beautiful as well. More dramatic, more beautiful and much louder. Springtime is when you see the volume of water crashing over the falls increase rapidly. Almost the entire Callaghan Valley is pristine looking in the winter, with snowy trees, and snowy mountains as far as you can see. Very high up the mountains, it is a pretty great way to get deep into the wilderness around Whistler with little effort. Callaghan Lake is well worth the bumpy drive.

#Particle playground waterfall free#

It is also a free campground that is very nice. A short trail from the end of the road, behind the lake takes you down to a lovely and sunny shore of this crystal clear lake. On a sunny summer day, few places in Whistler are more serene and beautiful. If you want a quick look at a very pretty mountain lake, take the first right at the start of this logging road that takes you to Madeley Lake. If you turn left here you can either drive straight up a very bad logging road for 8.5 kilometres to Callaghan Lake.

Just past the Alexander Falls parking lot on your left you will see a sign for Callaghan Lake Provincial Park. The Callaghan Valley is home to some other great places to visit. The picnic areas are numerous, the surrounding forest is gorgeous and wild and Alexander Falls crashes loud and beautiful in the background. Whistler & Garibaldi HikingĪlexander Falls Ancient Cedars Black Tusk Blackcomb Mountain Brandywine Falls Brandywine Meadows Brew Lake Callaghan Lake Cheakamus Lake Cheakamus River Cirque Lake Flank Trail Garibaldi Lake Garibaldi Park Helm Creek Jane Lakes Joffre Lakes Keyhole Hot Springs Logger’s Lake Madeley Lake Meager Hot Springs Nairn Falls Newt Lake Panorama Ridge Parkhurst Ghost Town Rainbow Falls Rainbow Lake Ring Lake Russet Lake Sea to Sky Trail Skookumchuck Hot Springs Sloquet Hot Springs Sproatt East Sproatt West Taylor Meadows Train Wreck Wedgemount Lake Whistler Mountain Whistler Area WaterfallsĪlexander Falls Brandywine Falls Cirque Falls Holloway Falls Keyhole Falls Nairn Falls Rainbow Falls Shannon Falls Train Wreck Falls Wedgemount FallsĪlexander Falls is certainly one of the nicest spots for a picnic in Whistler. The parking lot is just steps from the nice viewing platform on the edge of the cliff across from the falls which crash fantastically into the valley below. Accessible year-round, the falls are just 9.6 kilometres from the Sea to Sky Highway, up the very scenic Callaghan Valley Road. Hang a flap.Alexander Falls is a very impressive 43 metre/141 foot waterfall just 30 to 40 minutes south of Whistler in the Callaghan Valley. On a slightly related note, can gravity effect foam? I tried making a waterfall of tiny bubbles, but they just blew all over the screen - I couldn't get them to 'fall'.

(I guess I could also add blur-length variables to these tight-curve keyframes such that as the particles go over the curve, their blur length shortens - oooooh, that seems like a hack).

I'd like the lines to follow the curve of the particles. If I just throw a bunch of keyframes in there (with the direction-blur angle monkeyed with as they go over the edge), I get an effect that looks like 20-pixel sticks going over a waterfall. When I try a directional blur, that, of course, only works in one predefined direction. I can apply an actual motion blur, but it doesn't blur 'em nearly as much as I would like. What I'd like is to have a loooong motion blur (say, 20 pixels) on each particle. This is good - it's supposed to look like a waterfall. I've pointed the gun 90 degrees and things operate as I expect, with my particles coming out and then falling down (I have gravity). I have a solid layer, to which I've applied a Particle Playground simulation.