animated sea / water surface in max

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Hi guys,

 

do you know how to create realistic animated water/sea surface inside max without using plug-ins?

I saw amazing results on youtube, but there was no explanation "how to".

Link to tutorial would also help.

 

[Ismael]

Found these just googling. I personally never done any of it! Good fortune (luck is so overused...)!

The first may just be what you need. The second may be basic? The third looks awesome!

 

http://www.polygonblog.com/3d-water-the-ocean

http://www.3d-palace.com/xenomorphic/education/doc_psw.htm

[postite]

Hi,

There is a very simple solution: use the MR A&D shader water.

 

A lot of params. and it's auto anim.

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Ismael - thanks once again

 

postite - I`m on Vray - patriot he he

[alrawli]

The Understanding the Elements books are a great resource for this kind of thing.

 

For water try two animated noise modifiers on a plane, rotate the gizmos so they ar at 90 degrees to each other, play around with the z size and animate the phase. Then make a vray material with a cellular map set to fractal in the bump channel or you can use smoke and animate the phase. Reflection is key to realistic water a good sky with clouds adds depth and areas of contrast.

 

There are some decent ocean/water shaders on the Vray Materials website that might save a bit of time.

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alrawli : thanks for your reply ,

your idea to animate already created water mats from vraymaterials.de is pretty useful.

I made 2 wave modifiers + 1 noise.

Smoke must be placed also in bump slot - right ?

 

I`ll post my sea scene here when work is done.

 

[Ismael]

I'll be glad to see the scene!