water

[Otaku_Zero]

hey Adam have you had time to look at that ocean and water stuff yet?

[Professor Watkins]

Yep. I've done some research on it.

I'll show you mine when you show me yours.....

What have you found?

[Otaku_Zero]

I figured out how to get the color to show through, but I still haven't had any luck assigning a displacement or bump map

I was trying to assign the ocean node through a displacement map then into the bump map, but I couldn't get that to work.

So basically I'm looking at a completely flat blue surface

I'd get into more detail with screen shots and stuff, but it's all at home.

[Professor Watkins]

Good. Here's the result of mine:

It just uses an ocean object. This builds in its own shader. really a resonably quick render.

BTW...when you use an ocean object it has its own displacement, etc...

[Professor Watkins]

Here's a quick movie.....

Big Version (7 mb)

Small Version (2 MB)

[Otaku_Zero]

I'm having problems viewing that movie, is it needed to have that material work?
I would check myself but I'm busy working on my animatic

[Professor Watkins]

Make sure you have the most recent version of quicktime. It's compressed with H.264, and if you don't have Quicktime 7 you prolly won't be able to see it.

C'mon you're joking about the animatic right; I mean none of the 3D students would wait until late the night before a project was due to get it done would they?

[Otaku_Zero]

I've got everything ready, I just need to put it together and Premier is giving me problems with that.

As for the movie, I've only got QT6.5, so there's my problem