How to create the coastal waters of tropical islands ?

V-Ray V-Ray for 3ds Max General
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Hi Guys,

I have a project where I need to create coastline waters. Foam hitting the shores and all animated. I am thinking of using dreamscape but need to know if vray will work with it properly for animations. I need the water to be lapping (only foam not waves) up some beaches and falloff nicely to get the type of renders you see a lot these days where the water colour is bright and then falls off to a darker colour. I know fog can be used to do this, but when I have the water on the beach it doesnt look right and isnt clear enough. I have an entire island that needs to have the water animated and so im wondering if dreamscape will do this automatically ?
Something like this: http://rendering.ru/index.php/plugins-gallery/vrayscatter/ - The coast image.

Cheers for any help ! :slight_smile:

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Hey Steve,

I don’t know about close up but for medium to far distant shots:

The easy way to get that tropical island water is to model the sea bed, an extension of the beech with approx depths.

Paint a nice sand/gradient to light blue and then dark blue texture in PS following the coast line.

Then seperate water geometry sitting on top with simple clear vray material and bump.

I have animated a ship going through water with dreamscape about 5 years ago and it took me a week to get it to work properly and with so many cheats, is was very frustrating. I would say no to that but would be interested in other peoples opinion with dreamscape.

I would image the best way would be animated masked maps of some variety. Maybe an animated noise map masked with a gradient ramp?