Hot Ocean Plugin

[Sinelab01]

Hi Im trying to set up a animating ocean using hot ocean plugin but it doesn't seem to work has anyone else got a good work flow for creating a animated sea in octane ?

[juanjgon]

How it works? ... if it is a displaced mesh it should work with Octane, but what can't be rendered are the LW shading plugins.

-Juanjo

[hdace]

I believe it's 32-bit only. If you're running LW in 64 then it won't load.

I used it recently to create an animated displacement map, then applied the animated map to the water object in the main scene (back in 64 version).

[NemesisCGI]

Hot Ocean is both 32 & 64bit. The displacements work fine with Octane used it on a project myself.

[hdace]

Oh sorry. I'm using Mac. I have only found a 32-bit version for Mac. However if I'd known there was a 64 version for Windows I might have animated and rendered that scene in Windows only...

[NemesisCGI]

It's one very useful tool, but on big scale it starts to look repetitive.

[hdace]

For several months now I had forgotten that Denis Pontonnier has some excellent textures for animating water. I think I'm going to try them next time...

They're here: http://dpont.pagesperso-orange.fr/plugins/Textures.htm

[3dreamstudios]

Can you elaborate on how you got Hot to work with Octane? I'm trying to plug it into displacement node and nothing seems to be working. I do have UV on the geometry which I know has to be in place for displacement. I've tried plugging into texture image as procedural etc...nothing that looks correct.

Thanks for any input.

[BorisGoreta]

You can't plug anything into displacement node except a texture node plus the mesh needs to have UV.

use hot ocean to displace geometry, or if you use 2D hot ocean then use texture rasterizer.

[gordonrobb]

You need to use it to displace traditionally in Lightwave. Then rounder that in Octane.