Hi Guys, It has been so long since I kind of struggle with ocean shader with Vray. My approach is usually a noise in a plane to generate the higher waves and then a vray displacement to create the smaller waves. I do get a somewhat descent result with a simple material setting a reflective materi…

can you post some screenshots of your results so far?

I’d be inclined to use your map that’s doing the displacement with the sharp crests as a colour map also - have it using a very, very dark blue for the base going up to a green for the peaks. You don’t get a huge amount of information underneath the water to see anyway so perhaps simple colour is go…

Fusion/photoshop. render falloff’s in the extra tex slot & re-build the water out of the raw refraction, raw reflection, reflection/refraction filters, normals, raw light etc. Also make sure you do an environment fog pass. I spent a couple hours tops on each of these in fusion developing the look. …

very nice is the last one a few nested smoke maps? whats the setup with the white peaks and contact ‘foam’ on the ball?

Smoke or noise, I cant remember exactly how it ended up. Ended up slightly messy in the node view… The white is from a dirt in the extra tex and a copy of the displacement map in another extra tex with heavy curves in post to isolate the tops

i usually use a smoke for the major waves using putting a curve to it to sharpen the peeks and some smoke stretched for smaller waves all animated with different speeds.

You can look into HOT - houdini ocean tool kit its a plugin for max/maya comes with shader etc.

Yup I second the vote for HOT. Great tool.

ah iv used that but i didnt see any maps / shaders for it

It’s all to do with your reflection falloff (I’d be tempted to not use fresnel and instead use a falloff that you can tweak - use the reflection filter as an element) and the environment that you have for the water to reflect. Foam is hard if you want to do actual accurate foam rather than something…

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wxyz March 11, 2013, 6:31pm 18

How about VRay Distance Tex?

will vray need new build for max 2015 or it will work ?

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