Making a beach

[Devin Johnston]

I'm working on a condo project that is right on the beach, I'm trying to create some realistic waves but more importantly I want to represent the surf coming onto the beach, the problem is I don't really know how to do this. Is there a tutorial out there or does anyone have any advice on how to achieve a "foamy" look for the shore and also what is the best way to create waves that look like beach waves and not waves in a lake?

[Ernest Burden III]

This was asked just a few days ago. I don't recall any good answers coming in on the Max side, though. There are solutions in Vue and I recently bought a great plugin for C4D to do waves and such.

 

Animated? If not, re-painting a photo could do the trick.

[Devin Johnston]

Hey Ernest, I've got Vue 6 and I know I could do it with that software in fact I've already created a scene but the problem is getting my Max camera into Vue so that I can render out a correct perspective image. I know you can import 3DS files but I don't think a camera will come in with the model, and I've tried importing the model but the scale is totally wrong and I don't know how to fix it.

 

I was reading some previous posts and Da Elf posted an image he created with max that is exactly what I want to do but his explanation of how he did it was kind of vague. I'm also using Maxwell so many of the normal tricks aren't going to work.

[Ernest Burden III]

I know you can import 3DS files but I don't think a camera will come in with the model

 

Why not? .3ds usually carries cameras. They read into C4D as target cameras, but they are there.

 

A still I take it?