Hello everyone! I must admit I'm quite impressed with the quality of the work you folks are doing in the Vue gallery. I like the looks of the vegetation, lighting(lens flares etc.)motion blur, and atmospherics. My question is this; is it possible to create convincing animated waves in Vue, and would this be a procedural effect, or would one have to animate a terrain over time as in Bryce? Thank you all for your time. I plan to add Vue to my "arsenal" and was just curious.

Be difficult but not impossible. You would have to use terrains probibly. It's almost beyond Vue though but depends how much time you spend on it is my guess. I'd say it possible with a lot of work and good planning. To get good wave effects easily you need a much more expensive program. Haven't really found anything that is not possible in Vue though. Sometimes difficult but not impossible. Sometimes simple is better too, like you could use two terrains and move them up and down alternatly and use different fog splash effects on the shores. Like you can get a fountains water to spray properly so there is no reason why you can't use the same idea on a shore. Every single thing in Vue can be animated. I think the Mover addon makes it even easier.

Have a look in your User Guide page 294. There you find the best way to animate water. You cannot do more realistic animated waves yet. :-)Guitta

Hi danamo, yes, you'd have to animate a terrain over time to get "big" rolling waves animated convincingly. Vue doesn't support displacement mapping (yet? ;=) ), hence you can't do it with a procedural texture. As Pete said, mind, with lots of fine-tuning and work, you will get quite good results--certainly better than the Pixel Shader Test in 3DMark2001. ta, -Sascha.rb