Stormy ocean on Youtube (Page 2)

Hannes · August 13, 2010, 05:41:03 AM

This is a still of an animation I am rendering right now. It took a lot of time to get the movement of the different PFs look right. It's actually a terrain with a water shader and some animated PFs and cloud fractals for the foam. It's displaced by some other animated PFs (modified versions of the foam-PFs).
I wish I could place some spray on top of the crests but my attempts to use a cloud layer didn't look good. Any chance of conforming clouds out of the box, Planetside staff?

This one took only 32 minutes to render. Not too bad, but it will take a lot of time to render the whole sequence (about 800 frames). I'll keep you informed.

Tangled-Universe · August 13, 2010, 05:48:21 AM

Looking good so far, but probably it's best to judge when we see a couple of frames

So 48 frames/day

Perhaps you can show some tomorrow or sunday?

domdib · August 13, 2010, 07:34:34 AM

Looks very good - looking forward to the animation.

inkydigit · August 13, 2010, 07:53:31 AM

looking real good Hannes, feeling seasick already!

RArcher · August 13, 2010, 10:41:45 AM

The wave shapes are looking great!

jbest · August 13, 2010, 01:37:57 PM

Yes, this will be interesting!

airflamesred · August 13, 2010, 05:12:09 PM

stunning

Henry Blewer · August 13, 2010, 05:40:45 PM

I thought you had done a marvelous job with the sailing ship for the contest. This looks better.

Walli · August 13, 2010, 05:43:55 PM

very nices waves, hopefully you can show an animated version of that.

Oshyan · August 14, 2010, 02:55:47 AM

Quote from: Hannes on August 13, 2010, 05:41:03 AM
I wish I could place some spray on top of the crests but my attempts to use a cloud layer didn't look good. Any chance of conforming clouds out of the box, Planetside staff?

This is looking good so far. Keep an eye out for 2.2...

- Oshyan

reck · August 14, 2010, 08:56:16 AM

Quote from: Oshyan on August 14, 2010, 02:55:47 AM
Quote from: Hannes on August 13, 2010, 05:41:03 AM
I wish I could place some spray on top of the crests but my attempts to use a cloud layer didn't look good. Any chance of conforming clouds out of the box, Planetside staff?

This is looking good so far. Keep an eye out for 2.2...

- Oshyan

Hannes should be one of the beta testers.

Hannes · August 14, 2010, 10:23:49 AM

Thank you all!!
Oshyan: WHEN?? WHEN?? WHEN??

Well, while I am keeping an eye out for 2.2, here is an early test animation. The video quality is incredibly bad, but you might get an idea of the motion.
I stopped the rendering and continued improving the whole thing. Still trying some things:
http://vimeo.com/14138195

ra · August 14, 2010, 03:12:11 PM

Absolutely cool animation! Also your other animations are fantastic too!

Oshyan · August 14, 2010, 04:43:30 PM

Sorry, no release date yet Hannes.

- Oshyan

Hannes · August 19, 2010, 08:12:44 AM

Here is another new render. I reworked the foam and used two simple surface shaders, one rather dark and another one more blueish with an additional reflective shader, merged the surface shaders with a merge shader with one of the displacement PFs as function to replace the water shader, which reduces rendertimes dramatically.
Right now I am rendering frame 93, so it's going to take some time to finish it. When it's done, I'll put it on youtube, because the quality on vimeo is really bad. Every detail gets lost.