Hello, i'm looking for help, and came across this board's tutorials (pretty good ) but i have some newb questions, if you guys don't mind.

1) How to create water ripples. I completed the water FX tutorial in the tutorials section, but the water droplets just go into the water, with no ripple effects, is there any way to make the ripple?

2) Abstract shapes. How would i make an abstract shape that is not a perfect box//cylinder//pyramid, or something that looks like a piece of the box was cut out?

I'll probably have some questions later, really interested in 3ds