Ha, ha. I did that to some skin once, using cell for the bump channel without fixing the size. My people looked so totally weird.  :)

Have fun exploring.

1.)  Nice model!

2.)  Go and download my source files for the sky planet here.  It has an interesting shader for water in it (it's in the Carrara freestuff so you're good to go).

Thanks Sueposer and Kixum.

Great ocean and model ship scene...  

I'll attach the shader in my next post.

The scale is set for a medium size scene.

Mark

Thanks a whole bunch Mark!  That will speed me along. WOOOHOO!  Thanks Tom the ship is a freebie.  This page at sharecg has some awesome models!

Hey Mark what kind of displacement do I use on that?

It's built into the shader already. Just look under the Displacement portion of the shader tree. 

Unless that's not what you're looking for...

Great looking ship and sea there Mark! Thanks for the ocean shader. Makes me want to attempt another ship model to use this with. BTW; can you use displacement shaders on an infinite plane with Carrara Pro8? I seem to remember that using displacement in a shader with previous ver. of Carrara would turn an infinite plane into a regular plane. I just ask because I haven't had a chance to try this one at home yet.

Are you sure you are using the correct shader? Your screen capture does not show the correct shader name. I just opened up the one I linked and the displacement info is in there. 

At any rate, here's the screen grab of the displacement info. 

@ 50parsecs: You are correct, displacement turns the infinite plane into a large standard plane. I just always lay down the infinite plane because it's larger than the standard and then I replicate it if I need to. For most water shots, I keep the angle of the camera low enough that I actually don't need an infinite plane at all. If the camera is higher, then I'll use an infinite plane because you don't really need displacement - all the shaping can be done with bump or Normal bumps. 

Yes Mark. I do not know why Carrara 8 Pro is using my scene name as the shader name.  The shader is named ocean shader for infinite planes in my shader folder.

It might be creating a new shader for the infinite plane when auto-deleting the displacement channel. You can see the settings I used in the screen grab posted earlier. 

Just had mine in a standard shader folder. 

Thanks for the shader and the displacement info.  I will add the displacement manually.  It is a bad omen that C8Pro is not playing nicely from the get go.

Make sure that you are using the v.134 beta version. It has fixed a host of bugs. 

Mark

Ok I see I need to select the top shader.  When I do that it changes to the screen you have shown.  Sorry.

Now I need to find my bow wave obj model and affix it to the bow.

Hey Kixum I added your water shader to my library.  I hope that is what you intended when you made the file available.

When I put stuff up for people to download, I have no expectations about what will get done with it so please enjoy it to whatever ends it will be used for!

Thanks.