Just thought I'd give a heads-up on this one. Here's a cool and free Windows application.
From the readme file:
 
"MiniOcean is a background generator. As its name implies, MiniOcean gives you the power to make any type of ocean scene. Based on powerful realtime  engine, it is extremely fast. You can see the results in real-time, and don’t have to waste your time rendering. Furthermore, you can have some cool post effects like Bloom, Soften, Blur, etc.in realtime!!!

Features:

- 3D Realtime Wave
- Realtime adjustment wave properties (wind speed, height, choppyness etc.)
- Camera movement
- Post render effects
- Different sky styles
- Export to single image or images sequence

This software is so easy that you won't need any tutorial. Just press all the buttons in the toolbox, slide some sliders, after that press the Play button, choose record (esc to stop recording) and you're done! All the recorded pics are in c:MiniOcean folder."

You can download it here: http://3dbud.com/stuff.htm  Don't forget to copy and paste the free serial number directly underneath the download link when you're installing the program. You can see an example of what I've done with it via this YouTube link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlnVx1oLYwM  Have fun creating your own virtual oceans!
 

Thanks!

You're welcome Alisa. Have fun. :o)

Looks great :) Thanks for the heads up

Thanks!

You're welcome size8 and SamTherapy.

Thanks Kenmac, it will help me a lot.

Quote - Thanks Kenmac, it will help me a lot.

You're welcome Pol.

This looks promising.  Thanks for the heads up.

Quote - This looks promising.  Thanks for the heads up.

You're welcome Osper. Have fun with it.

Hey Kenmac,

This is just what I have wanted for a long time, and thanks also.

BUT.....and there always seems to be a..But Lol

I can get this installed do all the adjustments etc etc....till i press Esc..but it dont save to the MiniOceon folder that contains the exe file ??

Now looking back and reading your first..Heads Up...in 2009 you mention a serial number.

Where is it ?

As I just cant see one.

I have sent an email to the download site but no reply.

Any tips or advice most welcome.

*Regards.Jon

Quote - Hey Kenmac,

This is just what I have wanted for a long time, and thanks also.

BUT.....and there always seems to be a..But Lol

I can get this installed do all the adjustments etc etc....till i press Esc..but it dont save to the MiniOceon folder that contains the exe file ??

Now looking back and reading your first..Heads Up...in 2009 you mention a serial number.

Where is it ?

As I just cant see one.

I have sent an email to the download site but no reply.

Any tips or advice most welcome.

*Regards.Jon

I've just re-downloaded it and it looks like he's changed it so that you don't need a serial number anymore. I guess he heard from some people at the time that probably weren't too keen on that. BTW I looked in the old version that required a serial number and it says in the readme: "All the recorded pics are in c:MiniOcean folder." Good luck and have fun with it.

HI Kenmac,

Thanks for your reply.....BIG THANKYOU!!

I had placed this in My Documents    ( on C drive)  no worky.

Then into Programs ( again no worky on C )

Then the Heavens opened and the sun and wisdom fell upon me!

So going into my computer I selected   " C" just dropped MiniOceon so it could choose

Where it wanted to live itself.

And it did.

And it all works.....perfect.

Phew...and many thanks

Cheers Jon

Quote - HI Kenmac,

Thanks for your reply.....BIG THANKYOU!!

 

I had placed this in My Documents    ( on C drive)  no worky.

Then into Programs ( again no worky on C )

 

Then the Heavens opened and the sun and wisdom fell upon me!

So going into my computer I selected   " C" just dropped MiniOceon so it could choose

Where it wanted to live itself.

And it did.

And it all works.....perfect.

Phew...and many thanks

Cheers Jon

Glad to hear it's working for you. Hope you have fun with it.

Link seems to be broken for this! Cheers

Hi arrow 1

just checked and the link is still working fine. a 7.9 m download.

Goodluck.

I must be doing something wrong.I keep getting an error when I try to download.I have also tried to download on another computer with the same result. Cheers

Quote - I must be doing something wrong.I keep getting an error when I try to download.I have also tried to download on another computer with the same result. Cheers

No you're not doing anything wrong. I just tried it myself in IE, Chrome and Safari and it looks like the site's not up anymore. I just checked and you can still get the file if you use the cached webpage here: http://74.6.238.252/search/srpcache?ei=UTF-8&p=3d+bud+sea+free&rd=r1&fr=altavista&u=http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=3d+bud+sea+free&d=4961688312416692&mkt=en-CA&setlang=en-CA&w=ff5bb5d,fec0dddb&icp=1&.intl=ca&sig=cRXWTGwo6eBC0rrlMRNnfg--

Many thanks.I have downloaded! Cheers

Is it usual for the scene when saved are not an avi but all bitmaps and have to be put through a video editor? Cheers

Quote - Is it usual for the scene when saved are not an avi but all bitmaps and have to be put through a video editor? Cheers

You can use Virtualdub to assemble the bitmaps into an avi although I've never tried it but the program I used for the YouTube video that was posted along with my original announcement of this app is a program called BMP2AVI. I found it very easy to use. You can download it here: http://www.divx-digest.com/software/bmp2avi.html

Very Cool! Now all I have to do is figured out what it is, how to use it, and how not to suck at all of this.