Possible to render Maya Ocean with Vray?

[Panupat]

Really curious. It seems like Vray doesn't recognize the Maya Ocean
Shader at all. The Ocean already has quite some simulation on it. If I
just apply a Vray shader to it, will I lose all the waves, wake and
white waters? Is there some other way around?

[Kiernan]

There's a good thread about this. 

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?49852-Ocean-shader&highlight=ocean+shader

Last time I checked Chaos Group were unable to work out how the shader works unfortunately. 

[Panupat]

Thanks for the links. Very unfortunate yes :(

Alternative - If I do the simulation from real flow, should it give me
something that vray can render?

On Aug 16, 8:48 am, Kiernan <kiernan....@gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a good thread about this.
>

> http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbulletin/showthread.php?49852-Ocean...

>
> Last time I checked Chaos Group were unable to work out how the shader
> works unfortunately.
>

[SEQUENZ | Lars Gerstenmaier]

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[Duncan Brinsmead]

Perhaps “convert: displacementToPoly with history” will help, although you won’t get the fine bump detail( but could push the mesh density ). I can think of different ways of getting the foam rendering, but none of them very fun. (like rendering a sequence from the top camera)

If they supported the ocean texture you might be able to make your own ocean by mapping it to displacement/bump and foam on a standard shader, instead of using the ocean shader.

 

Duncan