Animated Ocean Surface - HELP needed asap!

[toddmcm]

I can create a great looking ocean surface for use in still renders.

I use a basic plane and add VrayDisplamentMod and apply an ocean displacement jpg that I have had and a basic material and boom, looks pretty good.

However, I now need that same kind of look but animated. I've just wasted an hour on google and youtube looking for a quick and easy solution and didn't come up with much.

Can someone help me out with this? PLEASE???

[Neilg]

http://www.guillaumeplourde.com/

[vlado]

Phoenix FD can also do a decent ocean surface which doesn't suffer from tiling as the solutions based on Tessendorf.

Best regards,
Vlado

[joconnell]

I'm doing fluids at the minute Vlado and one quite tough this was to do a sim in crested wave water - the usual naiad workflow is to do a sim on flat water and then add in a deformer after to add the crests, but it means they aren't there for your boat to smash through at the sim part - can phoenix do anything along the lines of this?

[raymarcher]

Just make something like this:

[toddmcm]

Hmmm.... So, there is no basic solution?

I thought vray could do a basic animated ocean surface.

[Neilg]

not with vray. phoenix does come with an animated map you can use that looks great.

for free, houdini ocean tools & some noise maps is the best you're going to get.

[svetlozar.draganov]

Hmmm.... So, there is no basic solution?

I thought vray could do a basic animated ocean surface.

Unfortunately we don't have a simple solution in Vray for 3DSMax - we have a procedural-vector-water-map in Vray for Maya but it is not available in Vray for 3DSMax.

[samuel_bubat]

You also may want ot look into this
http://www.aespid.com/index.php/tool...wave-generator

[trixian]

Unfortunately we don't have a simple solution in Vray for 3DSMax - we have a procedural-vector-water-map in Vray for Maya but it is not available in Vray for 3DSMax.

Soooo......any reason this can't migrate its way into max in the near future?

[vlado]

Soooo......any reason this can't migrate its way into max in the near future?

There's no particular reason, but Phoenix FD includes a much better ocean texture; the demo version should work fine for that.

Best regards,
Vlado

[CerpinTaxt]

There's no particular reason, but Phoenix FD includes a much better ocean texture; the demo version should work fine for that.

Is the Phoenix ocean texture also available in the demo of Phoenix for Maya? If so, where do I find it and how should I set it up?

Thanks,
Jan

[ivaylo.ivanov]

No, the Phoenix for Maya demo is too old. You must wait for the Phoenix 2.2 release.

[CerpinTaxt]

Ok, too bad. The Vray WaterTex will have to do it then. Thanks!