We'll start with a few vertical pieces of shrubbery drawn with the Optipustics particle brushes. In this case we used the Pine branches presets. Instead of the usual horizontal sideways motion, we painted then top to the bottom.
We also made sure there's plenty of whitespace around it to the left, right and the top edge.
Other popular bresets than work will are Dogwillow, Grass, JoshuaTree etc...
click to view the animation
Select the Create... option in the Animation menu.
You will be offered to choose the number of desired frames for this new animation. The default is 30. We'll choose a little more, 36.
PD Pro informs you about the amount of RAM needed for the new animation. It also shows you how much memory is free (unused RAM) on your system, and what the new amount represents as a percentage of the total physical memory installed on the system.
The frames will be initialized not as blanks, but as a copy of the current image.
You will now want to launch the Lua script that will apply the waving animation across the frame sequence of the animation.
One convenient way to launch the Lua script is from the Lua browser. It can be found in the "Misc" tab of the plugins panel, or also launched directly from the Utilities submenu of the Windows menu. That's of course assuming that you did install the DogLua plugin and related utilities.
Click "Ok" to apply the waving filter through the frames of your animation.
The Animation:file: waving2-ind4.avi