This week I’ve started testing out passes I need in the final compositing and begun render them out. This are the passes I will use for the environment, It takes time to render them out, so I prepared the comp tree with one image.

I also started with the simulation process, trying to find the speed and size of the wave and this is how far I have come with it. It’s only the base fluid no splash, foam and mist are added. It’s 1.3milion particles for now, I will maybe increase it a little more and cut of the particles behind the bridge after the wave is hitting the bridge, because you will never see the particles/mesh in the back after it.

I’m think I’m done with the textures and I have started to figuring out the render passes and layers for the final render of the environment.

I heard that Maya 2012 have problems with batch rendering with passes and layers, that the time will increase a lot compared to viewport rendering. You can try to uncheck “Auto render threads” in batch render options and put it in manually, and also uncheck “Render on network machines”. It worked for me:)

Beauty + AO.

Render layers setup.

Here comes milestone 2.