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Looking for a good ocean waves product

rnollmanrnollman Posts: 310
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I bought the Marmara Boat product and want to create an image with a convincing ocean bow wave. Any suggestions for products. I have attached the promo image which appears to have been done with Photoshop postwork. IMHO, it is a bit unfair to include a promo image than cannot be duplicated within DAZ Studio.

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  • barbultbarbult Posts: 26,235

    No image is visible in your post. Daz allows all sorts of postwork in promo images, though. Don't ever assume the main promo was all done inside Daz Studio alone.

  • richardandtracyrichardandtracy Posts: 7,139
    DA Big Ocean would be my first guess with post work for the splashes.
  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,259

    Maybe this:

    https://www.daz3d.com/jw-3d-water-props

  • Eggs ActlyEggs Actly Posts: 168

    Or this:

    https://www.daz3d.com/ocean-wide

  • AgitatedRiotAgitatedRiot Posts: 4,589

    I kind of like this one iREAL Animated Ocean Water System | Daz 3D but I also DA Big ocean it's really good.

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,268

    I'm not really up on rendering "water" and why some things look the way they do (and others do not) but I... tend to lean towards the shader and... reflection or environment... maps being a big thing here. That said, that JWolf item - "jw-3d-water-props" looks good and I can where see something made with the shapes, in that one, could look good when photoshopped behind a ship model.

    SickleYield also has a number of water props, in the DAZ store.

    In theory I could help you with a couple of either non-DAZ or DAZ-gone-to-the-vault products. For example Adam Thwaites has a curly pipeline thing with some "foam", and in the past there have been some morphs that could help to make a good water surface. If you want to get deeper into it for example you could use Hexagon to push and pull various random vertices... add a bit of smoothing and presto, you've got an an uneven surface (like a bow wave) which will look good with a water or glass Iray shader applied.

    There is also Mesh Grabber - a Studio plugin which lets you pick and poke at a surface plane which, when rendered as glass or water in Iray might be useful.

    Hope this helps... although some people like and want to have everything doable in Daz Studio (and why not?) there's no question in my mind that Photoshop brushes, filters and similar tools (watery effects using a graphics tablet say - big broad, wishy-washy strokes) are killer for this sort of thing. Perhaps not 100% photorealistic but do you want to be an artificial camera or do you want to put your own personal touch onto some great art IMPRESSIONS?

  • ScallywagScallywag Posts: 25

    Try going to sharecg and search for wakes. There are some obj files by spacebones that may give you a good bow wave and wake. I have not used them but might work.

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