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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 add to a floating object, several other objects, so they swam with it?
I made the ocean and floating object, using this tutorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11F1NRpqrzY).
How to add to a floating object several other objects, so they swam with it? For example, how ...
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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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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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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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How can I disable the ocean sim modifier's symmetry? [duplicate]
I have started experimenting with the ocean sim modifier, but I am noticing how "symmetrical" the resulting mesh is. No matter how I adjust the parameters, a wave in one corner will appear in the ...
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How do I use soft body and the ocean modifier to make a random screensaver?
I am a noob when it comes to the blender game engine, in fact blender in general, however I did find an amazingly simple cool thing to do with a the soft body physics in Blender and the ocean modifier....
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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 export ocean simulation to .json file with the animated modifier? [duplicate]
I got my blend file from here and I want to export this as a three.js json file so i can load it to browser. I managed to do that but as result i get the 1st frame of the model and not the model ...
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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 to include objects into the simulation of the wave modifier or replicate the wave modifier
My scene is a ocean with an ANT Landscape in the middle serving as an island. There is also to be a boat and some sort of serpent in the ocean, which is a plane with a ocean modifier. Currently, the ...
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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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Ocean modifier source code
Is source code for the ocean modifier accessible? I looked through my Blender installation, but I can't find it.
I'm trying to create a game (not in Blender because it's for iOS/Android) and would ...
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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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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 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 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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