Blender 4.0 Big OCEAN Tutorial!

Today I show you how to create an unlimited big ocean in blender with a technique that uses texture animation instead of geometry!
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[@ubuntu8908]

In my case (Blender 4.1) in Ocean modifier, it is possible to get Render resolution 64, if Viewport is the same number; 64. If 32 then can't get more than that in Render. Also noticed that if bake-folder is not located to drive C:, baking takes same time, but there is only few .exr and size of each is 0 kb, when changing folder to C:, it worked like it should. And thanks for this tutorial, God✝blessings from Finland!

[@user-iv9hs9wo9c]

спасибо!

[@brayandelmee2989]

Perfect ! You're the man !!!

[@faebetutorials]

Thank you glad you like it! 💪🏼

[@EmaSans-tu5eg]

You are truly amazing, I've been looking for a long time "How to make a large scale ocean" and I just found you. New sub😊

[@faebetutorials]

Thanks for your words 🙏🏼 glad you liked it

[@TheMLightning]

It's also worth noting that if you would like the ocean to animate you will need to animate the "time" value in the ocean modifier.

[@faebetutorials]

It is animated and I did exactly that

[@ubuntu8908]

I animated it (24fps) in frame 0 Time is "1.00" and in frame 500 Time is "10.00". Checked disp*.exr and it differs. But when rendering animation, there is no animation. I don't understand why. Auto refresh is activated in Cirle. Any clue?

[@ubuntu8908]

My mistake! Rendered frames was limited to 253-500. Animation stopped in frame 250! 🤦‍♀

[@foreman75brickfiles44]

Love this tutorial. I have a question though, I tried doing this and what should you do if squares appear in the water when you render it

[@CaptainMorghan4152]

next time can you explain ad ons a little more? im new to blender and had to spend 30 minutes trying to figure out what that lighting ad on you used was

[@faebetutorials]

Hahaha yeah sure sorry this videos was dedicated to make the ocean stuff and not lighting because otherwise the videos would be too long and out of topic. But I can do a tutorial on light and the hdri addon 👌🏼

[@mrachiele]

Hi ! just curious... why add a circle at approx 4:10 (that gives you asubdivision problem at the center) rather than another plane that would not ?

[@faebetutorials]

I never tried it out, I just felt like it looks more realistic in the distance with a circle but if it works with a plane too why not 👌🏼

[@antisanity_]

I followed this tutorial and rewatched it a few times but for some reason mine is completely broken. Idk if it's because I'm on 4.1 and this is a 4.0 tutorial or something else but when I made it, it was juts completely black and the waves would not show up. Edit, I completely redid the project and followed the tutorial again, and its something to do with this part at 5:45. When I set my render to Cycles so I can used the experimental tab, the entire circle goes pitch black. Idk if there is a way to fix this or not.

[@faebetutorials]

Oh weird I will see what the problem could be. I never had this problem before. Do you have lights or an HDRI in the scene already?

[@Podd_Craft]

where's the step for animating the ocean , i can't get my ocean to wave

[@rayviiin]

you have probably figured it out by now. but i suppose it is as simple as either keyframing or adding a driver to the time in the ocean modifier, before you bake it out. i recommend adding a driver with the expression: "frame/24", depending on your framerate. when you then drag the exr sequence back into the shader editor, the maps are already animated. i think the exr sequence is meaningless without any animation on the ocean before you bake it out. but i am not a pro. hope that helps unless you have already found your own way

[@Walres]

@rayviiin Hey, I'm having the same problem. I did "#frame/24" before baking the ocean, but for some reason in the rendered view when I hit play, the height of the ocean doesn't change at all. It doesn't seem to be animating, but the foam is animating, just not the waves.

[@rayviiin]

@@Walres hi! after some research, i found out that blender does not currently support baking when dealing with drivers. meaning you’ll have to use key frames for the animation

[@francolli]

Easy HDRI? So how do you load one manually?

[@faebetutorials]

You can select a folder with all your hdris and than click through them :)

[@faebetutorials]

And its an addon idk if that was your question

[@francolli]

Same old stuff, 'change bump only to displace...I don't have either, I have vector displacement only, what version of Blender are you using here, 4.1 doesn't have bump anything. I'm starting to think I have a different version of blender than anyone else on planet earth