Hello all... I was wondering if anyone can give me some instrs, or point me to some tutorails that will show me how to get the look and feel of getting that reflective quality one sees when the sun is shining through the surface? Thanks much Elliot

Is this what you're thinking about? All I did for this is; make a terrain, flatten it so it's just ripples and put on a sandy texture. Add a water plane with the water mat that you wish. Duplicate and resize just a tad. In the Water and Liquid mats is one called "Mr Bubble", Texture your last water plane with that. Work with adjusting the transparency and reflectivity. Hope this helped in some way. :)

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If you are talking about "caustics", here is a link to a post that discussed a purely Bryce solution to simulating underwater reflections. I found it useful, I hope you will as well.

I do under water sceans all the time.. http://www.daz3d.com/support/tutorial/index.php?id=941 That tutorial might help explan it a bit better.. just go down to where it talks of the lighting. Just note you can load in your own image for the reflections rather then the one it says :P