Hi…, sorry, I am a material noop. We’ve got a call that water material was great in Rhino 5, now it’s bad. Any ideas about a nice water material/environment for ship/sea pictures in Rhino 8 Render? Thanks Michael flexiCAD.com · Der Rhinoceros® Spezialist · NEU: Rhino 8 für Windows und…

Hi @Michael_Meyer , The Misc folder in the Rhino material library has a “Water Rippled” material you could use. Just convert it to a Physically Based material type after importing. It has a Noise texture in the Bump channel. This is generally the technique used in either a glass or metal material. …

Hi @David53 , I am looking for a nice Rhino water material setting, without blender. Thanks Michael

[image] Michael Meyer: We’ve got a call that water material was great in Rhino 5, now it’s bad. Apparently Michael’s client seemed to think the V5 material was OK. So I guess it would help to know where he/she got it: did it come with V5 or from somewhere else? Doesn’t it make the transition …

I don’t have access to my desktop right now or I would test, but you could see if R8 produces the same results using Nathan’s material: [image] Raft on Sea Gallery [Empty Raft on Sea - ground plane] [Empty Raft on Sea - ocean mesh] I made a simple scene for illustratin…

Hi @AIW, yes, he said Rhino 5 standard water. Hm? I’ve tried Rhino 8 water, but got no nice waves. Thanks Michael

Hi Material-Fans, my three quick tests with the two standard Rhino 8 water materials, and Nathans deep water material: [Rhino_8_water_material] [Rhino_8_water_wav] [Rhino_8_Nathans_deep_water] Water_Material_Standard.3dm (1.2 MB) Deep Water on GP.rmtl (514.1 KB) I would follow my customer,…

This is my sea with Vray (sorry, it looks a little bad; the source png file is sharp…). [mare con caustiche 3] [Mare con barca finito] [mare mosso ok]

You should change the repeat on the normal map to get the waves better. Personally I wouldn’t use the ground plane for anything, it is a performance killer. I think I like the water material in this post best: Renders some glass weird - #5 by nathanletwory And if you really want nice ocean waters…

Hi @nathanletwory , thank you for the details. My test boat is 14 meters long, you are right the waves should be longer to look nice. I am just the messenger. :wink: Perhaps the Rhino material maintainer hears this. Cheers Michael

We don’t have a water material with normal map like this - I created these myself. They aren’t hard to create. To change the size of the waves in the materials I created that have normal maps drill into the normal map and change the size/repeat.

[image] Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory: We don’t have a water material with normal map like this That’s sad. [image] Nathan 'jesterKing' Letwory: They aren’t hard to create. For sure, but noops don’t care and a lot say they don’t want to dig into the material deeps. I would add your sea…

Nice sea water material?

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This is my sea with Vray (sorry, it looks a little bad; the source png file is sharp…).

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Nice sea water material?

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