Autodesk Maya 2011 Ocean Tutorial!

This is an Autodesk Maya 2011 tutorial on how to create an awesome ocean render!

Steps:

1: First: Open a new scene
File/New Scene or Ctrl+N

2: Press space to open this hotkey window and while holding space go to
Fluid Effects/Ocean/Create Ocean

3:Then,press space again and go to Fluid Effects/Ocean/Add Preview Plane NOTE: This step can be skipped

4:Then while still having the Preview Plane selected press "R" to scale or filnd it on the left side as a cube with four arrows coming out of it

5:Then come over here to 'Ocean Shader 1' and change the slidders to whatever works for you

6:Press this to render

7:Drag your mouse over an area to have 1:1 rendering
and then select 1:1 button on the top bar of the render tab

8:Now when you change the slidders it will automaticly show up here

9:Feel free to just start changing settings

10:You might not have mental ray enabled within your Maya. If so search google to find out how to enable it

11:This is the Render Settings button

12:This is where you change from the Maya Software to mental ray Feel free to change the settings to fit your scene

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Autodesk
• Maya 2011
• tutorial
• beginner

[95vlopez]

You really really helped me!!! Thank you so muchhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­! Btw do you know how I could make a raft float in the ocean? I am trying but I can't get it right

Cheers!!!!

[bohanman1995]

@95vlopez Actually... I do! I'll try and make another tutorial before Thursday the 8th. Thanks alot!

[95vlopez]

@bohanman1995 Ohhh thank you so much, you're definitely my hero! ana thanks for taking your time to answer!

[bohanman1995]

@95vlopez lol. Thanks! I'll try and make it extremely clear!

[bohanman1995]

I would like to make another tutorial. So if you have anything you want a tutorial on let me know. I cant do any to big ;)

[leon9obsidian]

I did the render of ocean animation (1000 frames), but the start of animation and the end of it doesn't fit together, the waves do not match in lines the beginning with the end of video clip, I can't do the repeatable final video for the game! So how to do this repeatable effect in Maya, so the waves ends with the same location as they starts! So I can make the clock effect in this ocean video clip, repeatable you know!

[bohanman1995]

@leon9obsidian I will try and find out. In the meantime you could browse through Digital Tutors vault.

[leon9obsidian]

yes yes, I saw some Digital Tutors movies, but there was nothing about this problem, how to make this clock effect, repeatable movie clip for ocean in Maya! I wonder if this could be possible, maybe not !!! I don't know... I think, I'll make a mirror copy for ready part of ocian animation and then I'll link bouth parts together (in adobe-AE (reverse time layer)) so how it can be done in mine opinion :)

[bohanman1995]

@leon9obsidian It should do it automatically. Just move your frames from 24 (default) to something like 300 and click play :) If you want to know how to save a render animation just ask me!

*NOTE* To move your frames up. You see bellow the timeline bar the two boxes saying '24.00'? In the left box type the desired number ;)

[leon9obsidian]

But how to connect the start of frame with the end, together, repeatable ???