Maya: Floating on Texture Waves

.... or: A boat in the ocean. This tutorial is the spin-off of a question I got: When using a texture deformer, i. e. a texture which actually deforms geometry, can we let a boat drift on that geometry?
• Maya - Texture Deformer
Well, the texture deformation is something special. It resides between the Displacement Map and the actual ocean/water module which Maya provides. Its advantage is that it is very light in terms of performance. Actually, there is no other way to create waves of water more rapidly as with the texture deformer.
The key to putting a boat on the texture deformed surface is to constrain it with, for example with the Point on Poly command. The Surface constraint is also good.
For displacement shading see:
• Maya - Arnold Displace...
For a more funky texture deformer tutorial, using MASH, see:
• Maya: Funky Jumps [Tex...

[@silvaazarian4296]

I tried this with the ocean you made with BOSS ( and the boat ) and it worked . the boat is animated and floating . It's awesome . Thank you

[@lauraallen3793]

I love your narration. SOOOO nice to follow.

[@user-oz9de9ro4d]

thanks sir，that is helpful

[@brahmaananda5238]

those comment are gold

[@tcraiford]

Such a simple trick but with great results. Ty

[@Uhr24]

i did this tutorial briefly after launching this channel. glad you could make use of it.

[@eleeet7373]

nice and easy, thank you

[@MichaelHurdleStudio]

Thank you. Well done.

[@demitrisabian4035]

Awesome vid!!

[@flexmcpee]

Excellent stuff

[@Uhr24]

hopefully not outdated. cause it‘s a while ago, and i can barely remember this tutorial. :-)

[@flexmcpee]

@@Uhr24 I am sure it’s not. Anyway the concept should be the same if not. Thanks for the content

[@thesdfable]

Thank you! this is great!

[@mjparent222]

Really interesting !

[@RaymondCruz88]

men... thank you so much...

[@Uhr24]

my pleasure!

[@shiv3375]

what if i want the cone to move according to the waves instead of sticking to one place?

[@aams_animation]

can you make a tutorial that how to make water floating loop animation? please sir

[@Uhr24]

i could. but there are other pressing ideas for tutorials ;-)

[@srinivask3485]

really very gud

[@bebomrget5166]

how can i add a floating boat without appear any waves inside ? .thanks in advance

[@Uhr24]

this is a support question which i have no time to answer. how about the AREA? kzbin.info/www/bejne/nGK6fJWmpNCWo80

[@user-Oksana_Vovk]

Hi. I like yours tutorial. I want make a lake and floating leaves on it. And I also want make a jumping frog on these leaves and waves from leaves with circular divorces. I want use deforn-nonlinear-wave . And I will try make a spray. Would you be able to make lesson about lake with waves?

[@Uhr24]

Hi, thanks for your comment. I can't help you here because of two reasons: I do the tutorials for free and only the things which come to my mind. And: Your request is a whole big project which would cover much more than a 12 minute tutorial.

[@sikan5158]

WHAAAAAAT!! this video doesn't start with an animation!!!?

[@TheJoker3031]

😄Lol.... Iq needed