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Pickman
08-24-2006, 10:24 PM
Hey there, I'm trying to reflect my sky on the ocean shader for an animation boat project.
Tweaking ocean attributes is just fine and intuitive, i had nice waves moving around but i have two things bothering me:

1/ I can't seem to get reflections on my ocean shader in the reflected color slot.
I tried making a projection node with a file with my sky and plugged the outcolor projection to my reflectedcolor node in the ocean shader. But it didn't work at all ?!

What kind of projection network should I build in order to get my cool sky reflecting on the ocean 2D, 3D ??

2/ I managed to get foam on top of the waves but it fades out very quickly, what is the attribute driving the foam duration ?

THX a lot, hope someone will be able to sort my out on question 1 ! :-)
anthonymcgrath
08-25-2006, 03:43 PM
Hey there, I'm trying to reflect my sky on the ocean shader for an animation boat project.
Tweaking ocean attributes is just fine and intuitive, i had nice waves moving around but i have two things bothering me:

1/ I can't seem to get reflections on my ocean shader in the reflected color slot.
I tried making a projection node with a file with my sky and plugged the outcolor projection to my reflectedcolor node in the ocean shader. But it didn't work at all ?!


is raytracing turned on? :/
Pickman
08-25-2006, 04:06 PM
Hum...yes, i know I'm a noob in maya ocean shading but I guess my problem arises from projection node, which i don't handle at all, any workflow or suggestion Anthony
THX for your reply
MaNdRaK18
08-25-2006, 05:41 PM
1/ I can't seem to get reflections on my ocean shader in the reflected color slot.
I tried making a projection node with a file with my sky and plugged the outcolor projection to my reflectedcolor node in the ocean shader. But it didn't work at all ?!



Reflection can be mapped only with enviroment textures. You could try to use envCube and map the uper file with Your texture.
Pickman
08-25-2006, 09:20 PM
Hey MaNdRaK18, I'm sure maya is able to use projection node on ocean reflected colors, i saw it on a gnomon dvd, bu they didn't explain how they plugged the node to the reflected colors of the ocean shader
Otherwise, i have no idea how to plug your idea in my network ?!
Anyone here having a workflow or some help to get it working, thx :-)
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