Water/ocean surface

[Elowan]

Would someone please point me to a tut and/or archive for good techniques/files for reproducing a convincing water surface texture?

Thnx.:tu:

[ALp]

Struggling with that one myself at work now

[bmckain]

Ahh, a shameless plug, but there is one that is part of the Premiere Content done by Ed aka Thor.

http://www.foundation3d.com/forums/showthread.php?t=417

Scroll down to the bottom of post one.

[Lemon Wolf]

Perhaps the dielectric node might help with this?

[Magus]

Have a look at this scene... Pull it apart... Checkout the surfaces, the bump channel in particular... Also, note the Texture Displacement and the use of nulls...

This Ocean is the amalgamation of about 4 different water/ocean tutorials, plus my own techniques thrown into the mix... It's by no means perfect, but it'll help you build what you want...

The scene is designed such that the amplitude and bump texture of the waves decreases as you get closer to the pivot point (x,y,z = 0) -- much like waves generally get smaller the closer you get to shore... To get rid of this just remove the FALLOFF from the bump textures and the texture displacement...

I did have a version where the maximum amplitude of the waves was controlled by a slider, but the file was corrupt... Though, It's not hard to do -- just make an expression to change the scale of the bump textures and texture displacement based on the slider...

Have fun...

[Elowan]

Looks interesting. Many thnx.

[Rigel]

That really does look like an ocean.

[BillS]

SimplyLightwave has a tut on setting up an ocean scene to.

http://www.simplylightwave.com/movie_pages/tutorial.mhtml?tut_id=3

[Rawz]

That really does look like an ocean.

Reckon!

I thought 'that's nice photographic reference of an ocean he's got there, wonder the render looks like'....

Beautiful work.

[cathy vedette]

do u have render with renderman or something like that ?