how to do water?

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i had a look at the last 50 threads and there were none dealing with this topic. also the search engine couldnt help me finding such a thread.

so my question:
is there a tutorial how to do water?
like a sea or a lake with all the small waves moving with the wind blowing over the water? and the right type of reflection?

yes i know there are wave effects in blender, but i wasnt unable so far to do water areas with this effect :frowning:

could someone help me?

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if you use two waves effect coming from two different origin, the effect is much nicer. For reflections, look for a tut on planar reflection there: http://green.dyndns.org/

Martin

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The Wave effect is based on time so you need to advance your frame number to see the effect work. I hope this makes sense.