Wave? help pls!

[jason-bolton]

hey i am a student in cape town and for 1 of our projects i need to create a beach for my character to move around in and i would love 2 to have him surfing a wave, seeing as he is a surfer. the problem that i have i have no idea how 2 do a wave. there was an add on tv here were a car was surfing a wave made from the road and they used maya. pleeaaaaassss help me.

[daikath]

First of all, Maya is a very complicated program and don't expect to do too much complicated scenes within the first 2 years of using the program. Unless you're much smarter then me of course.

Anyways, Maya has a whole ocean system as a subset of its fluid systems. Go to the Dynamics submenu fluid effects -> Ocean -> create Ocean.

However it takes a long time to explain everything, here at the Maya help you can read all about the ocean. http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2010help/files/Open\_water\_effects.htm

[jason-bolton]

thanks a lot i will go and have a look at that and see what i can do.

[bjohnston]

Water shots can be quite complex and time consuming, specially if you try to simulate it (very undesirable).  You might try animating a nurbs surface using deformers with a really nice water shader.  Of course there will be some particle work as well for droplets, splashes, and wakes...