AFX_RippleDistort

[Ashby]

Hi all,

Here’s a plugin for creating water reflection and heat haze type effects.

Here’s a quick demo:

AFX_RippleDistort - Flame Matchbox Plugin

Here’s the before image:

Here’s the render:

Shader: AFX_RippleDistort

[KuleshovEffect]

This is SO COOL!!

I love how you visualized the noise as different organic patterns.

Would you mind sharing that batch setup?

-Ted

[Ashby]

Here you go, Ted.

ripple_distort_flame_setup.zip (2.2 MB)

[MikeV]

Great stuff @Ashby !

I see your latest matchboxes being added on the logik-matchbook website but they don’t seem to be in the zip when downloading the whole collection.

[Ashby]

I don’t have control over that unfortunately

[philm]

@julik

[David]

Brilliant stuff, thanks for sharing!

[julioleon]

It does not seem to work on an Apple Macintosh…

[Ashby]

What version are you running? It definitely

works on Flame 2026 on mac.

[julioleon]

2024

[Ashby]

Ahh they upgraded matchbox in 2025 to a new version of glsl.