OCEAN.
Something different from what we normally did with other exercises. This ocean effect is a simple exercise where I just need to click a create ocean button then adding a preview plane, expanding it to about the size of the grid then adding the light effect for the waves.
It then amazed me when clicking on the render view and it came out something like a real ocean effect! This exercise also shows me that Maya can make the ocean move and can adjust the speed of the movement and such.
Then adding in the cube, normally create a polygon and adjusting the size. Then I have to click the "make boat" option to make the cube floating on top.
Research: Researching on creating an ocean on Maya brought me to this page where it is from Maya software itself. It is more in detailed that I don't know about I am be able to do on Maya for the ocean exercise. http://download.autodesk.com/us/maya/2009help/index.html?url=Fluid_Effects_Nodes_oceanShader__ocean_texture.htm,topicNumber=d0e442141
Reflection: The only part that gave me problem was when I clicked the "make boat" option but the box still didn't make any motion. Luckily I get to overcome the problem and my box really looks like its floating in the ocean!
