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Creating Ocean Scene
Hello,
I’m trying to create a simple ocean scene with animated clouds. I am using a plane with a formula deformer and a wind deformer to give it some turbulence and trying to replicate rolling waves slowly coming in. I am getting close to what I want to accomplish but for some reason I can’t get the formula deformation on the water to look nice. Here’s a link to a quicktime of what I have so far –
https://www.cirrusmedia.com/PUDA/OCEAN_TEST_SM.mov
My formula is – Sin((u+t)*.5*pi)*0.15 size is 400 across the board
Any help would be much appreciated!
Justin
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3 Replies
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Here how I start my water scenes.
https://www.randyarchy.com/water.c4d.zip
You can see a still of a similar set up here:
https://www.rootvisuals.com/There is a also a series of sea shaders in the download section of the c4dcafe.com
/Randy
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Randy,
Thanks so much for your help. I looked through your setup, what does the second plane below the water help achieve? Is it kind of like an ocean floor? When I placed a plane under my ocean it didn’t achieve the same results. I’ll post a quicktime link up here some time today. Whenever the renders finished.
Thanks again!
Justin
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The second plane is a ocean floor. My water shader is a little transparent so with out the second plane you would be getting the sky showing through. You can make the ocean deeper and shallower in places and get different water color as a result. Of course this is only a starter file you can add so much more.
THe shader works well on a floor object and then you can use animated displacement to replace the win deformer I used too… I like the Mograph displacement so I can see whats happing….Good luck.
/Randy
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