HOW TO MAKE AN OCEAN + Cut-out in BLENDER- Beginner Friendly - with caustics and foam :)

Expressway is my favorite font.
-and here is a longer detailed tut of my ocean, if you only have 4 min of patience in you, id recommend you watch the shorter one:
• UNDERWATER GODRAYS AND...
If you don't wanna follow this, and just want to buy the setup:
blendermarket....
- or just wanna help me buy a pizza :3

[@oby1]

This isn't "Real Caustics" its just a cheaty normal hack, but it works :) P.S. - I do in fact do personal tutoring sessions (paid tho) So If yall need help with a project or workflow: Discord: Oby1[Andre']#9774 Email: [on the about section of my channel]

[@mindcreativestudios4709]

How is any of it considered "Real" when it's all computer generate?

[@bwaaah6086]

@@mindcreativestudios4709 because it looks real

[@Daneya.C]

I love it when you say " Nothing has changed" This video helped me so much with a project I'm working on thank you so much!!

[@imnotthatmatt6524]

Oh my god your voice is so nice, from the very first word I was like "well here's a tutorial I won't be muting"

[@sirrahsebastian9269]

right and he speaks very fluent and not too fast just like a real teacher.

[@m___motion5976]

I came to the comments to see if anyone else loved the voice haha

[@vi8946]

Probably you already know this but you can subdivide the object when you click the right mouse button :)

[@gabrieldowling6655]

For those whose ocean shader didn't work past the second multiply node: Since 2.92, you will need to change 2 things: 1) Connect the 'light path' node to the 'factor' input on the first multiply node. 2) Connect the 'color' output of the 'colorRamp' node to 'color1' rather than 'color2' of the first multiply node. If the rest of the shader is set up as seen in the video at 16:57, you'll be good to go!

[@callswey6467]

I did it and it's still just looks black and white

[@knight2255]

Can you take a screenshot of you node setup?

[@Gary_Hun]

It did smell like a method that comes and goes by the version number.

[@martinperens]

Thank you :D

[@Gabykk]

I just finished it. Very happy with the results, and what I have learned. :)

[@jbmegatron]

Lots of great detail going on here man. I learned a couple of useful little bits way beyond the actual caustics so cheers.

[@barrybroadbent4588]

This worked like magic for me, although I had to set the Y rotation back to 0. Your tutorial is much appreciated!

[@explicitFRUIT]

same

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@9:02 The **dot product** is the cosine of the angle between two vectors. In layman's terms, if the dot product * == 1 then the two vectors are pointing in the same direction, * == 0 then the two vectors are perpendicular * == -1 then they are pointing away from one another. It is used in lighting calculations to determine how much light should effect a surface by taking the dot product of the surface's normal vector and the direction to the light.

[@iamtienng]

For those who have problem with Boolean causing no god ray at sides, add a modifier called Smooth by Angle to Ocean object.

[@shockdude]

WooHoo finally done it, now I need a M1 Mac, thank you, and for taking it step by step for newbies

[@apersunthathasaridiculousl1890]

best easiest (real) water caustics tutorial

[@JessTheDragoon]

What if you put a camera into the ocean and make it look out through the water? Will the refraction and rays still be seen?

[@oby1]

Yepp. It will still give a proper looking effect ^-^

[@artao5]

Awesome tutorial, thanks! ... Apply scale. Of course! D'oh. Was beating my heat against those odd overlaps for awhile. Regarding water and color: Water itself may have no color, but stuff suspended IN the water will scatter the light rays in different ways. Thus it makes sense to color the volume scatter. Could be algae, sand, minerals, etc.

[@aidanknotts1090]

Subdivide is in the right click menu

[@slamotte]

Great Tutorial, still really nice

[@satch1237]

For the subdivitions, I did 100 and then a simple subdivision surface modifier that only effected the render

[@The_NSeven]

Wow!! I had no idea about Shift + E! That's so useful. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@leonardocastro7050]

Amazing tutorial, I tried the fastest one and came to check this one too! awesome texture speedrun tutorial!

[@joelberryman8448]

this is a fantastic tutorial for booleans in Blender, thank you! I've been looking for one like this for hours :)

[@letscompose8560]

Place the boolean before the subd and ocean modifiers for a fun jellyfish you can use in your scene.

[@mastermaddog]

Just got one thing to say about this tutorial: "Cool!"

[@TWGuardian]

Tip: with the new 'vector rotate' node, what one can do is rotate the unit vector (0, 0, 1) with type set to Euler, center 0,0,0 and using drivers for the rotation. This way, you can obtain the actual light direction of the sun lamp, and so you needn't mess around with the normal node.

[@IyeViking]

Transmission is broken in 2.9 for those who might be having problems, not sure if it’s fixed in 2.92 or above

[@etiennecolas1825]

Excellent, clear, detailed, you taught me a lot.

[@UnknownDino]

Your rendering of volumetrics is insanely fast. I must be doing something wrong with cycles. Great stuff as always.

[@oby1]

I use RTX - so.... erhm.....

[@UnknownDino]

Oh... ok!

[@pabloandresbaezrivera2264]

muy buen tutorial amigo , explicas muy bien y es el primer tutorial que veo que esta bien explicado y funciona genial

[@totheknee]

11:32 - Water appears blue with depth because the red/orange/yellow light gets absorbed first (i.e., it dies young), leaving mainly blue light to make it to your eyes.

[@pixel-ink]

I have tried both of your tuts exactly. Gone through 3 times each to make sure I did it right. But I do not get any light rays in both scenes. If I turn up density it just get darker. However, there is a light path when I see caustics. Things start not looking right from the 2nd Mix shader forward. Any ideas why? Thanks

[@knight2255]

Same here, using 3.1, you ever have any luck?

[@armeneze]

I tried bumping up the sun's strength to 500. Got some amount of rays through the water.

[@morrellii]

Yeah I when I add the volume the best I get is milky water

[@elis_sings]

@@morrellii same here, any luck?

[@myngjoon]

Great! OBy, I bought your presets, applied them, and then came here to see how you did it. It's extremely beneficial and has allowed me to save time. Many Thanks ^~^!!

[@juanmaria6404]

My surface is looking good but it has no depth, e.g. no caustics. Yet I'm sure the normal settings in the shader editor are just as in the tutorial, does someone know how to get the depth effect?

[@davethewave119]

Same issue here, not sure what's going wrong. My shaders seem to be the same as the tutorial. Hope it's not due to a Blender update

[@Andressuquaz156]

HI!!! I just solved this!, my caustics weren't working either, what I did was invert the nodes conected to the first MixRGB node (i connected the normal up and the light path at the bottom) hope this can help someone

[@Aldebaran80]

is just that i was seeking for! thx for the tutorial, i want to render a scene with my big white shark modelled in ZBrush...

[@legoman91]

so even with the domain disabled, I am still seeing it appear, sort of. The sides of the water are not using the material of the water but instead appear to be white like the domain cube. Any idea what might be causing this?

[@Beekoism]

You have to add the material to the domain cube also

[@pound7108]

Very Good Work and spreading the knowledge is awesome

[@wesdabest2138]

For some reason the Boolean modifier is making the textures on the sides of the ocean weird. No god rays, just a weird glass looking cube

[@AndrewConway]

Has anyone tried this in 3.0??? Not working for me

[@heqi9556]

that's super useful!!! I love this tutorial

[@frost3dart]

i have the issue that my waterblock sides reflect the sun as glass... if anyone could help me :D

[@SandSeppel]

Can you make an update for godot 3.5?

[@Dodo_di_dope]

You should start making tutorial 🔥 🛐 This tutorial helped a lot ! Thank you 😊

[@AndrewConway]

Nevermind, I put the Ocean in Bonds rather than Textured... Sorry

[@michaelp3ddesigns]

Some great points, learned a lot, cheers!

[@melbendigo]

At 15:00, when I adjust the ColorRamp gradient, I get either solid black or solid white on my ocean (top and sides), and not the high-contrast wavy effect like in the video. Does anyone know why that might be? Everything was going perfectly till that step. Thanks!

[@kartist2455]

For Getting the contrast wavy effect, u need to go inside the liquid and see the top surface from inside ( since the normals are reversed ). If you watch carefully, he does it too.

[@Kiromitsu]

Dropping the Normal Dot into the Multiply color 2 slot is not working to remove white walls. I'm not sure if this is because I am in 2.92 or if something else is wrong. please help!

[@CharizardFan_og]

Dude, jy is awesome, ek hoor sommer aan jou aksent dat jy my sal verstaan ;) dankie.

[@oby1]

Haha... jup. Can't avoid the Afrikaans accent

[@snailmeat2204]

Love this tutorial, but I can't get caustic shadows to work. At around 15:42 I couldn't see any caustics against the plane, just a regular shadow

[@ruslantokoch]

Choose your Ocean and "Shade Auto Smooth" or "Shade Flat"

[@Peyton-zu4uq]

@@ruslantokoch oh my god thank u it worked🙏🫶

[@Berserk__YT]

At 9:00 when I connect the "Dot" to "surface", the sides of the cube do not turn black. instead, the cube color stays the same. can someone help me?

[@huichuankuo]

set the boolean solver to fast on the ocean, see if that helps

[@oceannlim]

@@huichuankuo had the exact same problem and it helped, thanks!!!!

[@1userka1]

Hello from 2024 I have an issue, and I would like to ask you to help me figure out. When connecting a volume bsdf, blender crashes, it’s not a matter of the number of vertices, because just the shader with the volume works fine on it. Please help, how can I fix this?

[@FreyaZeka]

This is beautiful and it all came out great although I've been unable to get it as transparent as you did. I followed the tips for the color ramp and have been messing around with everything but any object I put inside the water doesn't show clearly, is there a way around this?c:

[@meanimates1717]

So I tried doing that caustic effect but cant get that wavy kind of pattern using the color ramp connected from the dot output to the materials output i did mess around with the color ramp but still cant get those black n white wavy patterns in the Ocean shader does any one has any idea why is it so it always just total plain white at the bottom and total black at the top areas and vice versa after flipping the color ramp.

[@ewolvie]

I moved the domain in a separate collection and exclude it from View Layer. And it works.

[@a.c.1902]

Hi! If i want to make a scene but I don't want to see the "walls" of the ocean boolean, I must do a "fog" cube for that? O how can I achieve this. Nice work, thank you for sharing with us :D

[@jahhe2611]

i was wondering too!

[@krispy770]

dude u can right click subdivide and specify amount in the bottom left

[@Mr.Pump1990]

Thank you very much for this tutorial, it's awesome! :)

[@tejasmr1433]

when i connect normal to surface. my ocean turns blue (as if i have used emition) not white

[@tejasmr1433]

oh got it u put dot factor in not normal :))

[@SourceAwareness]

Many Thanks, my Brother!! 😎

[@Direkin]

The start worked out well enough until I got to the boolean operation. My computer really did not like that at all. It froze for quite a while, and when I could resume command again, the boolean left a weirdly shaded box, and some random lines from the ocean extrusion was left remaining on the outside. Chaning viewport display for Domain from texture to bounds did nothing. I'm on version 2.92, so I'm wondering if something broke since this tutorial.

[@ague1710]

can I put this “ocean” in a room and make it smaller? or does the ocean need the environmental texture? (sorry I'm a beginner)

[@oby1]

This is a very open ended question- by putting it in a room? As in tracking it into live action footage? That will require motion tracking, and general light and color matching. I'd suggest Ian Hubert for tutorials on that. For the environmental texture, I'm not sure. Sounds like you're referring to an HDRi. Those are 360 images that helps light the scene more accurately. If you plan to do a VFX shot, you'll need to: 1- motion track 2- make your scene (the ocean) 3- match lighting and color (get a free HDRi that roughly matches your footage- check Poly Haven for free ones) 4- Composite your video using either Blender or After effects

[@baileymiller7738]

im doing everything right yet i dont get the caustic effect at all

[@Andrew-bv8rn]

Im having the same problem, it may be the blender version I'm using, but idk

[@RayTracedMood]

this is Genius thank u

[@abhijithto2943]

helpfull and so nice final out .... thank you ...

[@kartist2455]

As soon as I add the normal dot to the 2nd multiply, the caustics becomes so blurry its just a plane refraction of blue water. Plz help!

[@pragunsaini3498]

Thanks man, very helpful !!

[@sandilekhoza798]

This was a great tutorial, I learned so much and now I'm a little curious... does anyone know if there is a way to get just the caustic effect without the god rays by using this shader?

[@ericart]

Remove volume node?

[@muhammadhamzahrobbani5654]

why when I "Apply" the Ocean and Boolean modifiers, the ocean & boolean animations don't run? because if I don't click "Apply" , this modifier won't be saved when I export my Blender project to .fbx, and animations (including ocean and boolean) don't run in .fbx format. what should i do?

[@aldinho7977]

Very nice tutorial! There is on thing I would like to now. Is it possible to export this ocean-block as a GLB (GLTF). Every time I try it, the colors and textures go missing. Is there a special trick? Any help is appreciated :)

[@likefh]

Thank you so so so much!!! You are awsome!!!!!!!

[@oby1]

I'm gonna screenshot and print this comment ^-^

[@DamianAndGames7]

I got another problem if I play the animation it completely lags and blender crashes even though I have a very fast computer

[@Deodoro3D]

That´s really cool

[@adrianhebreros]

Hello for some reason when I apply scale with the same values as yours the ocean just looks like a repeated tile

[@Andressuquaz156]

Can't get the caustics right no matter what I do, they simply doesn't show up, anyone with the same issue?

[@mightybob9816]

Thank you super helpful

[@OscarNorlander]

Awesome stuff. Thanks

[@minimonkey7773]

Does this still apply to 3.0? If I were to follow all these steps now, would I get the same result?

[@tetsuooshima832]

That may be the hackiest ocean shading I've ever seen but hey, it DOES look good - though I'm still hoping there's a better way now in 2022 lol Also I stay away from volumes, I know I'm wrong but my render time gets doubled, oh no~

[@oby1]

It is hacky indeed :) but hey, that's basically what 3D and VFX is- fake it till you make it

[@radovanandjelic954]

I added a camera into the mix trying to do a render of it. Position where I want it to be press ALT+CTRL+0 and my ocean disappears. Can anyone help with that?

[@pabloezequielpadula7278]

cool man, thank you!

[@brokndisplays7976]

Not a tutorial Person? You should overthink this, thoose are straight up fire!

[@yahyatarek443]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@kriptionite8412]

My laptop's making quite a bit of noise lol

[@ChromaticaCitizen]

i’m using an HP envy and it’s eerily silent…🤔 let’s hope she don’t explode!

[@willizugz]

I’m guessing this is outdated if I’m using blender 4.0.2

[@fadyaldhaim4766]

i mean yeah i can follow along and all, but can't learn why i'm doing these steps in the first place. like youtube will never be a place for actual learning

[@chrisharvey7461]

im filing from inside the cube is there anyway to stop a textured plain reflecting inside the cube, if you tell me ill buy you more pizza

[@oby1]

Might be inverted normals - I'm sure a quick Google search can help you with that. More than that- I have no idea to help you with that ^-^

[@chrisharvey7461]

got it...ray visability

[@chrisharvey7461]

@@oby1 ty,

[@archeramoon2548]

Thank you very much!!

[@DanielPereira-ci6oi]

Hey! When I do the boolean and select the Domain on it, makes the ocean invisble instead of cutting the cube out. What could I be doing wrong?

[@DanielPereira-ci6oi]

So just flipped the normals in the cube and seemed to make it, but no idea what happen exactly for this.

[@valente_png1982]

im using blender 3.2 , i can t get it to be transparent, appreciate if someone could help me ,

[@funny_cartoons]

05:17 for some reason Linear Extrapolation didnt work in version 3.0.0. After 30 frames it just stop.

[@Adrianmeb]

I'm using a 3090 and it can't handle the 200 cuts

[@Andressuquaz156]

What's your CPU? Blender uses the GPU for render related things, while precision involved matters are handled by the cpu

[@pickledOnionGal]

at 9:45 the sides of my ocean are not black/see through... i'm not sure where i went wrong here :(

[@IvorryVagner]

thank you

[@forgottenwisdoms]

I followed this exactly and my caustics do not look the same at all. im in blender 3.2 Any solution?

[@fruitdudetv]

same for me. this tutorial is outdated :(

[@ericsure8625]

Refraction problem please how to solve

[@venomironx]

The sides of my ocean are a bit white and not as transparent ans yours. I can't see the light rays from outside, but if I move inside the ocean I can see them. I can see the caustics, it's just not as nice as yours and no light rays. Must be blender version.

[@DamianAndGames7]

can you help me? I cant find the operation button at 6:28 and my version of blender is 3.1

[@DamianAndGames7]

oh wait nevermind i founded it

[@blendhouse6947]

You have to click w on the keyboard

[@lolmao500]

Is it me or the tutorial doesnt work anymore for 2.9?

[@chiokunn]

The tutorial works! in 2.9 I already do it and it works

[@kinggecko503]

same, doesn't seem to work in 2.9

[@noobandfriends2420]

@@kinggecko503 I'm not getting God rays.

[@noju9861]

Love u bro

[@mihakosir7221]

righht mouse click to open menu to subdivide... its how i do it... thnx for tut

[@ldfurlan]

Make a beginner realistic sand tutorial please

[@oby1]

Google CC0 textures- search for a Sand material, download it, apply the textures to a mesh. There's your sand ^-^

[@IsaPisaLemonsquisa]

I can’t move the sun, what am I doing wrong?😄

[@IsaPisaLemonsquisa]

This sounds very weird and overpowered out of context

[@ChromaticaCitizen]

around 15:00, the surface is white but mine is black. what happened to mine?

[@ChromaticaCitizen]

ok nvm. i wasn’t working with the Dot. this is so good! sadly my laptop cannot do this is higher resolution so the surface is pixelated when rendered. ): i feel like it owuld look better if it was subdivided into 200. must! buy! new! computer!!!