Calm sea effects

i just tried the bermuda node blend feature but i don’t get it work.

I have applied a vol. select modifier between Bermuda Mesh and Bermuda Modifier and put a noise map into the vol. select.
On rendering it just shows a flat surface with no reflection.

do i something wrong?

What you just described seemed to work for me. I’m guessing we’re doing something differently.

Things to check:
The main surf node, and the blending surf node have different settings.
The Volume select is set to “Vertex” under “Stack Selection” and you can actually see the selected vertices highlighted.

If you’d like, you can upload a .max file here, and I’ll take a look at it to see if I can’t solve the problem.

All right, now it works. It seams the reason was the old bermuda mesh in the scene. I’ve created a new one and now it renders correctly.

very nice! That gives a very cool effect. Is it just done with a default noise volume select?

I think maybe Bermuda needs a few built-in sky textures like this one! Just so people can do a few clicks and have a cool image. It would be nice to find somewhere to get/license/buy some hdr skies to be included with the software.

Do you have an HD quicktime of this in motion? i would love to use that as some imagery for the website…

cheers

Chris Bond

@ conrad
yes, it is a volume select with a dafault noise, it works great. As for the sky, actually this is not a Texture. I made it with the Vue Ozone plugin from eon-software. But having some good environment maps available in bermuda would be awesome.

@cbond
Unfortunately no, this is just a still image. Will see if i can make someting in the next few days.

See there are subtle parallel stripes just to the right of the end of the sun specular?

I am having a lot of trouble with these. They seem to be in the normal map. What are they and how do I reduce or eliminate them?

Rhys.