Questions tagged [ocean-simulation]
Questions about Blenders built in Ocean Simulation modifier. The Ocean Modifier is used to generate a series of images which are used to deform a mesh to emulate moving water.
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How to create a seamlessly looping ocean
Is there a way animate the ocean modifier so it loops continuously?
I would like to make an animation where the last frame seamlessly goes into the first without the ocean "jumping":
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How can I create a crashing wave effect?
I have a scene with a stormy ocean, and I am trying to create this effect:
I've been looking for tutorials on "crashing wave" or "ocean spray" without much luck. As such, I've run up against a wall.
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Ocean modifier with volume
How can I use the Ocean modifier to only deform one axis of an object to create something like this:
How can I achieve this?
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How to make water not pass through bottom of floating object?
I made an ocean using the ocean modifier, and placed into the ocean a floating object - basin, using this lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11F1NRpqrzY
How to make water not pass through the ...
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avoiding a tiled looking ocean simulation
I want to make a scene of a missile flying over the ocean. Because I want the missile to be relatively high up, the ocean looks very repetitive.
How can I make the ocean not look tiled without ...
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How can Waves of the Ocean Simulator flattened on a Beach Area?
I'm currently trying to flatten waves of the ocean simulator on a beach area using a lattice. But sometimes the end of the waves mesh becomes visible. When the influence of the lattice is increased ...
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Ocean modifier foam spray?
Is there a way to make the ocean modifier fake foam spray? I already displace the water with dynamic paint, but I still am stumped as to how to create the foam. I'm assuming it's a particle system of ...
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How to selectively render part of an ocean which is inside a round object?
Once you see the image of the problem I'm having, it makes it much more sense what my problem is.
How do I make it so the ocean doesn't render outside of the cup object? You can see it towards the ...
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How to make ocean waves move towards a central point (Concentric Waves)
I have a basic island and I want the ocean to move towards the island from all sides, but I want it to look natural. How can I make all the waves blend together around the island, but all going ...
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How can an animated object kept on the surface of an ocean?
I tried to set the ocean as passive rigid body (collision mesh) and a boat as active rigid body.
The boat falls through the ocean. Which technique is recommended for this?
Ideally the boat would ...
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Map ocean displacement to a sphere?
Is it possible to create a "spherical ocean" effect by mapping an ocean texture to a sphere?
I tried baking an ocean simulation, loading the .exr images ...
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Fluid Simulation Real Ocean waves
I am trying to create real ocean waves that break on a shore in Blender. The three ways I know I could achieve this is the wave modifier, the ocean modifier or the fluid simulation. Don't know so much ...
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Adaptive subdivision ocean modifier
I am in the process of creating a large ocean, which I would like to use the ocean modifier for. My scene currently consists of a plane being displaced by the ocean modifier, but I would like to have ...
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Why does my river change itself into a big, flat (with some bumps) square when i use the ocean modifier?
I already tried to apply the scale, but unfortunately nothing's changed. How can i fix this problem?
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How to apply the ocean modifier to get an animated object?
How to apply the ocean modifier to get an animated object, (not a static which have froze in a single phase)?
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Ocean Modifier Questions
I have a few questions on how the Ocean Modifier works. They are for the Blender Internal,so please be specific.
What does the Foam Data Layer do in Blender Internal? Does it do anything?
Is the ...
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Is it possible to apply ocean modifier for only one face of geometry?
I was trying to recreate this illustration with my limited knowledge.
And while doing that I tried to follow some tutorials. In one of the tutorials, the animation done with ocean modifier and ...
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Ocean modifier + wave modifier foam
I'm having foam issues!
In the example below I have:
1) A boat leaving a trail of foam via dynamic paint
2) Foam on the ocean
3) A wake from a wave modifier
Problem 1
The foam from the ocean ...
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How do i get the ocean modifier to animate?
I have been going through many tutorials and even asked in BlenderArtists but no help. When I get to the point to insert keyframes a keyframe drop down menu appears instead. It has been very ...
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Is the ocean modifier better than the fluid simulation for making an ocean? [closed]
Is the ocean modifier better than the fluid simulation for making an ocean when it comes to visibility under the surface of the water, reflections and splashes in the water? Which one is better for ...
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Can I make the ocean modifier less repetitive?
I have a simple plane with the ocean modifier on it. When I turn the "Repeat X" and "Repeat Y" settings up to make the ocean larger, it just duplicates the same exact pattern out ...
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Ocean scene - Why my rendered image is not similar to the viewport preview?
I am trying to make an ocean scene but when I render it, it is not similar that preview in camera view mode and I do not know what to do in order to fix this.
Blender file link for your reference:
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How do I make an ocean of independently moving objects?
Let's say I have several objects and I want to parent them to a plane that has an ocean modifier on it. The problem I'm having is that the objects move as a group instead of independently of one ...
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How to use spray in ocean modifier
ocean modifier after blender 2.90 has a new feature called the spray in foam subpanel,and I have no idea how to use the spray direction map it gives me.
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Making ocean loop hexagonally
I am creating objects for a game which consists of hexagonal tiles. I successfully created looping animation for ocean, but failed to make it loop spatially, due to my tile being hexagon, and not a ...
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Animating water surface from .csv temporal xyz data
I am looking for a tool to create nice animations from the output of my numerical model. So far I have gridded xyz data points for both the surface elevation and the elevation of white-water above the ...
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Is it possible to convert movement animation of the floating object into animation keys?
I created an Ocean simulation, with an object "floating" on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZUkHyDC1lk&feature=youtu.be
Now I need to export this to Nuke, so I need to convert the movement ...
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Ocean modifier (animated) with small waves
I can't solve a problem I'm having with the ocean modifier. It's the last major thing before I can start to render the animation. I have a boat moving through waves with equipment being towed coming ...
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Ocean modifier with Displace Geometry makes the mesh move up and down
In this question, I am trying to find how to make a simple sphere display small wavelets and ripples to make it look like it's made out of water and subject to tides / wind effect.
One of the effects ...
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Ocean plane shader with transparency
I've made this ocean scene following a tutorial.
I want the shader to be transparent so I can see sharks or whatever though the water.
But adding transmission doesn't seem to work. And since it's a ...
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Create a plane and apply ocean modifier to it
I've been trying this a bunch of ways but no matter what I do I get a blank white plane. What I want is to programmatically create a plane with the ocean modifier applied to it. What am I missing?
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apply (ocean) modifier in a gradient/
I would like to apply the ocean modifier in a non-uniform way. I basically want the edges of the are o the ocean to be flat and gradually increase in height towards the center of the tile. Could you ...
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Blender ball simulation question!
Do you know Maxim Zhestkov's artistic motion things?
https://youtu.be/NY4TGDP4C54
I'd like to make some alive balls like this link
Is it possible to make it in blender? I have the plan that balls ...
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Animated oil spill on ocean surface
I'm about to help a client do an animation explaining an invention cleaning oil spill or other floating debris from the surface of the ocean.
Any ideas would much appreciated as to how this could be ...
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apply ocean modifier to existing face/plane
I have a plane with a specific shape (made by many vertices).
This shape represents the sea.
If I add an Ocean modifier but that generates a new plane.
I thought by adding a boolean modifier on that ...
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rotation driven by vertex z value - ocean modifier
I would like to be able to drive the rotation of a boat by the z value of a surface vertex of a plane with ocean modifier on it.
Is there a way to access to this data without Python?
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How can I make a water wake effect?
I wish to create the illusion of an object that is stationary to be moving along a surface.
I have a sphere and a plane, and the desired outcome would be for a water "wake" effect to be ...
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Controlling mesh modifiers with animation nodes
Is there a way to control mesh modifiers using the Animation Nodes add-on? I'd like to use AN to set values for the animatable parameters in the Ocean modifier.
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Rendering ocean scene, but ends up as a cube
I am new to blender, and I am trying to render my animated ocean scene. However, when I render only the cube I started with is visible, not the ocean. And the cube does not show in my viewport. Any ...
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Cycles, Ocean Modifier and Dynamic Paint
I was trying to get multiple objects to float on an ocean in blender. I used dynamic paint (brush and canvas) for the first object and the ocean. I then copied the rotation and the and location to the ...
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Some objects are not rendered in UV pass
I created the sea and floating object - the ship's hull. The ship floats in the sea, using the method from this tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11F1NRpqrzY (dinamic paint).
Then I modeled ...
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How to stop water from overlaying with boat object
I have been creating animations through blender using the ocean generator and a Lego boat - see attached image - I have been using shrink wrap and copy location to make the boat float but when I play ...
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Ocean looks real close, but plasticy and undetailed when far. Can't find setting for this
I re-asked this question and added all necessary files and images, so its more clear what my problem is: now u can download the textures and blend file and render and see what i'm talking about :)
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Blender Motion Blur deactivation for certain objects doesn´t work
if I have set Motion Blur for rendering and deactivate it for a certain object in the object properties, the object is still blurred. The scene is a tracking shot from behind towards a boat that is ...
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need help making wave breaking look real with ocean modifier - using vertex weight or pointiness maybe?
I am using the ocean modifier along with some interesting arrangement of modifiers to make it look like its breaking on a beach.
I'm actually quite pleased with the way it looks..but I want to try to ...
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How can I accomplish, that the surface of the Ocean modifier isn't shown on the inside of a drifting transparent bottle?
I'm trying to make an animation that shows multiple transparent bottles(which I used the solidify modifier on), that are swimming in the Sea(a normal ocean modifier surface).
On the inside of the ...
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How to use real Air Simulation?
i found few tutorials about blender simulation but it doesn't include air temperature and humidity. It has some flow but i can't tell if it's realistic or not.
I don't know if i should use, Flow ...
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Using the Ocean modifier on a cylinder
I want to use the ocean modifier to displace a cylinder evenly, is there a way to do that? The best I got was for it to work but projected on a single axis, where the "front" is displaced correctly, ...
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Export Ocean Modifier animation to game engine
I am trying to export an interactive Ocean modifier animation to be rendered in a game engine, the modifier allows the export of the displacement and foam maps, but not the animation created by ...
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Seamless looping ocean? [duplicate]
How can I loop an ocean animation with the ocean modifier? I really need this for a game. I want to do this so I have nice looking water!
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