Does the OceanTexture support animating the offset?

[stevesideas]

As in the thread title. I've animated the offset but I cannot see any change. The reason I need to do this is that I'm trying to give the impression of flowing water. Rate of change only changes the individual peaks/troughs of the shader not the overall flow or movement in a specific direction.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hey, you need to raise the Velocity Coherence, check here: https://docs.chaosgroup.com/display/...enixFDOceanTex

Also, check some workflow tips for setting up the ocean texture with a viewport preview here: https://youtu.be/gE5huS1oajg?t=428

[stevesideas]

Hi. I've raised the velocity choherance but it only "flows" at a specific rate. It doesn't look like the entire body of water is flowing together. I'll check out the links.

[stevesideas]

By the way. I'm using a fake method to create this flowing water. I'm not using a simulation, I'm using a plane and vray displacing it. I need to use these alternative methods in order to cut down dev time when it comes to simulations etc.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Sure, no probs, the ocean texture can drive the simulation when plugged into a wave force, but can just displace a surface as well - and the pure ocean and viewport preview can be used to quickly see what's happening when you tweak the params of the texture.

[stevesideas]

Thanks. But, regarding my original question. Can the offset be used to animate the entire shader in a direction?

[stevesideas]

How would the wave force be taken into consideration if I was just to use a plane mesh? Surely it would need to be part of the phoenixFD simulation considering my current setup just has the phoenixoceantexture in the vraydisplacement slot.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

You can just use a simulator in pure ocean mode as a preview for the texture while setting it up and then hide it delete it.

As for the offset - sure - you can animate the offset, as well as the tiling and the angle. You can lower or zero the Rate of Change and the ocean will just slide in one direction The Simulator's pure ocean preview will show you in the viewport how the ocean looks when you change these.

[stevesideas]

hmm. I wonder why it doesn't seem to be moving for me. I'll recheck my settings. Thanks