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I am trying to do this...

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... as featured in this post, but in blender 2.8.

The only way that I can get anywhere close is to create an ocean slightly larger in X & Y than the cube, but shorter in Z. Then add a boolean on the cube with the object as the ocean and the operation set to difference. However, I can then only remove the faces of the cube above the ocean once the boolean modifier is applied, which means that the animation won't work.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

Simon

EDIT: Having downloaded blender 2.79 and added a boolean intersect to the cube I get similar behaviour to blender 2.8 when the solver is set to BMesh...

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...but setting the solver to Carve gives me the desired result.

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So it looks as if blender 2.8 (which has removed the solver Carve) cannot generate the desired result.

So the questions stands, how do you create a slice of ocean with an animated surface in blender 2.8?

Thanks (again),

Simon

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  • $\begingroup$ Don't apply modifier, just hide Cube from viewport and rendering - settings are in Outliner. $\endgroup$ – Serge L Oct 30 '19 at 18:08
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks Serge L. However, I want the sides of the cube visible to give the appearance of a slice or cross section of ocean $\endgroup$ – fractal Oct 30 '19 at 20:10
  • $\begingroup$ does it need to be the Ocean modifier? Because you could fake it with the Displacement modifier or other... $\endgroup$ – moonboots Oct 30 '19 at 20:31
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  1. Add a Plane and subdivide it couple of times

  2. Select its border and add it to a new vertex group

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  3. Add all modifiers to the stack, pay attention to green highligts

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Ocean should be Displace instead of Generate in order to utilize vertex group.

Vertex group later is displaced strictly on Z axis down below and cut by Cube via boolean Intersect.

Adjust Cube's scale as you need and enable Autosmooth (80 deg) in Plane settings to have a sharp corner at the cut.

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  • $\begingroup$ Following your instructions I cannot generate the output required. One missing element was to set the Displace modifier strength to -20, but even then I cannot replicate what you have done. I think the issue might be in selecting the border of the plane and adding it to the vector group. However, since you have provided a .blend file I can use that. Many Thanks $\endgroup$ – fractal Oct 31 '19 at 17:36

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