A few months back I needed to do a wake as well and here's an image I found (after Googling up a search on "boat wakes"). I drew up my wakes for my Snagglefjord map based on this. There are some caveats though, speed of the boat also has an impact on size of wake, as well as direction of water flow (for rivers), and hull shape for shape of wake.
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Did you use that just as a design model, or did you actually try something fancy with it? Maybe grayscale it and turn it into a layer mask?
I realize it's not much of a map, that's part of why I had a hard time locating a place for it in the forums... since everything is going to take place on the ship, there isn't much in the way of mapping to do... this is the first time I've created water, though, so I was hoping I didn't totally futz it up
I'm not sure why the boat appears a little transparent... it isn't, but I think I see what you're getting at. Maybe I need to put a dark outline around it or something to make it stand out a little more?
Zooming in, I think the wake is a little too transparent and I should thicken bits of it to block more of the water.
Last edited by xv43; 11-02-2008 at 07:21 PM.
The boat looks fine to me but I'd put a lil brown on it instead of the original gray, that's probably why it looks a lil transparent. The pics I used as a theoretical base then made my own wakes out of B/W clouds (distorted and manhandled into shape of course) to resemble what the they should look like.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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As far as the water's concerned I think you might have the bump mapping the wrong way round. The high area of the water seem to be wide and flat with thin dips between them. Generally on water this is the other way around, with wide dips and short sharp peaks of chop. I'd be interested to see how this looked if the pattern you used for the bump mapping was inverted.
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