sea surface

[DaForce]

Look good... although maybe a touch too noisy and reflective.

Athought hard to tell with teh big old gray HMAS-NDA there

[Tom B]

I got ok results using a plane with a noise modifier for big waves and a vray displacement on top for small waves.

[GALACTUS]

Sorry Gijs had to stop surfing. For the Ocean shader you will have to go to the darkside(mental ray) to render it. It is part of the lume tool shaders that came along with mental rays port to max. You will probably have to comp(a lot more hassle in know) in the sea scape into your scene.

Colin

[DaForce]

Tom B:
Thats looks quite nice.
Care to share your material settins?

[priad]

yeah pretty cool Tom, Gijs you result is also very good!
settings

[Gijs]

Yeah Tom, I'd like to know more about it. Looks good.

Here is another test I just made, scene included. Please note that I use 2.2 system gamma and gamma correction color mapping. You might wonder why the fog color is so dark. That's because it gives a much more smooth transition from from undeep to deep water. Forward/backward cooefficent is 0. Also notice that GI is turned off this scene.


the max file

[percydaman]

i think alot of a realistic sea surface is in its bump/displacement.



I think I just used layered noise and smoke maps for the displacement.

[Gijs]

That looks good Percy. The sharper tops of the waves are making it look like a sea surface, that's exacly what I need. If you happen to dig up the settings, I'd be grateful

[percydaman]

Im not sure I have the file anymore. I think the caps were the work of the smoke map. Just fiddle with it. I might have inverted it too cant recall.

[Gijs]

indeed it seems an inverted smoke map does the trick, still fiddling with it...

[olitech]

hey Gijs...is that one of these? www.palmsubmarine.com

[DaForce]

Gijs:
Looking good.
If you dont mind when you get it just right...would you mind post it here

[Gijs]

O.K,

here is what I have now, it is a mix of smoke, wave and noise (turbulent)
Still not as scrisp as Percy's though...

[priad]

great result!!!! Gijs

[Da_elf]

ooooooooo. i like