How to animate ocean vector displacement map - Arnold & Maya

[brittanybiggs]

I'm following this tutorial: https://area.autodesk.com/tutorials/rendering-an-ocean-with-displacement1/ and I'm curious how to animate the vector displacement map so the ocean water moves? 

Any tips?

Thanks!

[damaggio · Accepted solution]

After you cached your Boss vector displacement you just load as an image sequence for displacement, this is well covered in the Boss Maya learning channel, just follow along.

[Anonymous]

Thank you for the info! I wasn't following the Boss tutorials. I realized the link I included isn't working, but this is the correct one: https://docs.arnoldrenderer.com/display/ARNTUT/Rendering+an+Ocean+with+Displacement 

But if I understand you correctly, I should use Boss to create the ocean water simulation, create a cache, and export that to become the image sequence of my vector displacement map?

Thanks again!

[damaggio]

Yes.

[Anonymous]

Thanks, I'll give that a shot!