underwater scene

[markdc]

Originally posted by bloddy_newbee
I wanna to create an underwater scene. I have a spotlight in this scene, that shall realise the water shadows from the surface on the ground of the underwater scene.

Does anybody know a tutorial or give me some tips, how I animate the water shadows, that it looks like realistic?

3dbuzz.com has a video tut for max. You can probably still get something out of it.

[audim]

I think you are searching for the effect of caustics.

There is a tutorial on Gnomon
http://www.thegnomonworkshop.com/tutorials/lightfog/lightfog.html

if you need an animated-caustic-texture try the tinderbox for nothing real shake, there is a good caustics-effect

or

Maya 4.5 has an example created with the new Ocean Shader

or

the caustics-plugin for Maya, but with this you get huge rendertimes

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