3ds max water / ocean without plugins

This is a very basic water / ocean "test scene"
It was made without any third party plug ins - 100% stock mx

It was rendered in Mental ray 3.5

It was made with a standard max shader, using raytrace for reflections and refractions and a mix+noise map for the displacement slot

There are 3 teapots submerged in the 'water' at different depths and one red teapot above. The geometry is a simple plane.

Its taken me ages to get it to look decent.
Comments and improvements plz ^___^

Please note that the emphasis is on the water surface animation (the actual waves) not the actual scene (lighting/ realism)

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa305/Nemole/test.jpg

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• 3ds
• max
• 3d
• studio
• mental
• ray
• water
• ocean
• displacement
• waves

[airantidess]

Thanks very much for the material settings, I've tried to move the noise offsets around but nothing appears to work. Am I supposed to modify all XYZ offsets in all 3 Noise maps per frame to produce the waves?

[NemoleAmzi]

Use the autokey function, example: set key on frame 0, then enable autokey then go to frame 100 or something and change the offset values after you're done disable autokey

[HatakeInc]

hey thts awsome could u make a tut on how to do that please, i would be very greatful

Thank You

[NemoleAmzi]

This was more of an experiment, and I don't recommend using this method for actual work, however, I added a link to an image with the max material on it to the 'more info' on this video

[Filo127]

tutorial

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[peter3612]

i tried to do that and it turned out looking like lumpy porridge LOL. but if i added a water like material and did some more tweaking it would look fine. nice work.

[3dUber]

hey i followed your tutorial and it ended up Looking like aluminum foil :( But You earned a Subber!

[massarde9591]

wow that was really !!?!?!?!? short but still cool. amazing.

[StaturorytrOy]

wow this is really good, do you work for a special effects company?

[vladpiranha]

Wow, this is outstanding. I've never seen one this close up that still looks photorealistic.

[cricrikenina21]

so good!

[humanidt]

u know, it looks kind of decieving. the water flows in from nowhere, and it just disappears

[krayzgerman]

Very nice.

[JuanJBreton]

Impressive mate, thank you for sharing