Creating an Ocean
 

Ive been wanting to create a fierce ocean, and am not sure how to go in doing this. In the maya help section it says that maya comes with an coean plane and shader, but it just says to go to fluid effects. In dynamics all I can find are Fire effects, smoke, fireworks, lightning, shatter, curve flow, and surface flow. Where do I go in getting the Ocean plane and shader?

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http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/7791/helplu2.png

I figured it should be that easy, but im currently using maya 8.5 and the fluid effects tab isnt there!?

just hit f5 in you maya window and the menu should change to the dynamics tab.

Im at the dynamics tab, but fluid effects isnt listed. I dont know what to go under to access it.

you got maya unlimited?

no, just maya complete 8.5

You must have Maya Unlimited to create Fluid Effects.
Check this link out:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet...112&id=7635619

Well that kinda sucks.... Is there any way I can make an ocean without using fluid effects?

You could possibly make a texture of an Ocean, but that would only be 2D.

turn a plane into a soft body with a turbulance field attached maybe? :s