Canoe Problem

[John_Roberts]

I am new to Rhino and have been working my way through the 1st Training Manual. I have got as far as the canoe in Chapter 11 which I completed successfully but have a problem with the ground plane. Choosing Automatic for the latter placed the canoe on the water rather than in it. If I changed to the alternative setting the canoe floated but unfortunately it showed the water level both outside and inside the canoe. How do I bail out the canoe?
John R

[wim (Wim Dekeyser)]

Hi John -

@John_Roberts

If I changed to the alternative setting the canoe floated but unfortunately it showed the water level both outside and inside the canoe. How do I bail out the canoe?

With the ground plane, you can’t.
You could create a simple plane and trim that with the surface of the canoe.
-wim

[nathanletwory (Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory)]

Here a link containing some links to other posts to help you out getting a good material for water, which can be done on surface you end up with as mentioned in the post above.

Sea / ocean material, bump and displacement not showing

Here a couple of posts to look at The first and third linked posts have water materials available in them for your benefit. addendum: what you see in the Rendered viewport is just the bump map. Displacement doesn’t work too well on the ground plane as displacement maps needs a lot of dense geometry to be useful. Anyway, the above linked posts should help you get good results using normal maps.

[John_Roberts]

Thanks for the reply. Seems the instructions in the Tutorial are over simplified - if I have to do anything like this in future will create my own plane and work from there.
Regards,
John

[John_Roberts]

Nathan,
Thanks for the information - the links will be of value to me in future projects,
Regards,
John