Pure Ocean flicker

[Joelaff]

Any idea what would cause my pure ocean to flicker literally every other frame?

I have a little Offscreen Margin in there. I wonder if it has to do with that.

I have no actual data in the liquid sim. I just want an infinite ocean plane, and VRayDisplacementMod doesn't seem to work on a VRayPlane.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Hmmm, how does it look?

[Joelaff]

Hmmm, how does it look?

See this movie. Every other frame it pops. This is net rendered, and each machine was rendering two frames (launched by 3dsmaxcmd.exe->render two frames->quit->repeat) , but I am not sure that is it. Wouldn't make sense for the second frame to have a problem.

[Joelaff]

In pure ocean mode does the resolution of the simulator affect anything?

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ahummm, maybe the resolution is the problem indeed. It's like having a cache with a flat surface filled up to the ocean level at the Grid resolution, but without the actual cache. How many voxels do you have? Maybe they are really not enough.

[Joelaff]

I had turned it way down thinking it might save some memory.

So perhaps increasing the voxels even for a small area, even though there is no cache, is the ticket?

My PHX simulator is small out of camera view. It is very low res. I really just need the infinite place of ocean.

Thanks.

[Svetlin.Nikolov]

Ahhh, if the simulator is out of the view, then it really does not matter. You gotta raise the Ocean Subdivs instead. This WILL eat up memory and a lot too.

[Joelaff]

I thnk I may have just gotten it to work with a simple displace plane that is REALLY big. I was worried that was going to cause problems. But it might be working (and avoid PHX, other than the textures).