Some Ocean Shading

[RonensArt]

Hi Guys,

As a base for my shot I use HOT VOP.

and customized a shader for some nice looking displacement.

Now I have a separate layer for foam... which needs to be reflected on the ocean.

Normally, would you make a separate pass for the reflection of the foam on the water ?

Here's a test frame with tracing & using Delayed Load, but no foam there yet...

(10 min of render)

Ronen T.

[barad_dur]

I try to keep render passes of things like reflection, refraction, diffuse, shadows etc. While it takes longer to set up the level of control you get in compositing can't be beat. For this I would probably treat both the water and the foam as one entity (they are both getting rendered at once) but run seperate diffuse, reflect, refract, shadow etc. render passes.

[lisux]

Beautiful seabed.

It ts just a texture below the water surface or are you doing something else with refractions?

[RonensArt]

I try to keep render passes of things like reflection, refraction, diffuse, shadows etc. While it takes longer to set up the level of control you get in compositing can't be beat. For this I would probably treat both the water and the foam as one entity (they are both getting rendered at once) but run seperate diffuse, reflect, refract, shadow etc. render passes.

Thanks barad_dur, It was too expensive rendering both the foam and the ocean beauty in the same render.

I had too separate them, and matte the ocean in the Foam pass...

and as for the rest: Shadows, Refraction, Reflections, and diffuse are exported as Image planes from the shader.

Pablo, Its just a texture and some Index Of Refraction tweaks on shader

Cheers,

Ronen.