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Re: Underwater Effect

if you don't want to do that GI lighting thing....
hold on... am i forgetting something.. there is some feature in mental ray that does this kinda light ripple effect .... maybe i am confused...

but this is how to get that ripple effect w/o GI:
then what you can do is make kind of a foot ball shape and clone them so it looks like the picture except covers the entire top of your scene ... make sure that it is kinda above your scene a good bit...

clone this large group and move it up some more and off set it some....

now apply like a 10-20 % opacity to these foot balls and place a light above it with shadows on... aand then you get a nice ocean wavy effect...

i used this in Max 3.1 before cuz i didn't have any
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