Bodies of Water

[gregcashen]

What is the best practice for modelling a body of water? Almost all of my projects are on or near the water and I have done this a number of different ways. I am curious how ya'll 're doin' it.

Please explain your method if it is not listed above...

[aggockel50321]

What is the best practice for modelling a body of water?

I'll drink to that!!!

Topo works for myself. What problems are you experiencing?

Renderings, site plans, etc??

[beegee]

I'd use topo for most (simple) stuff, but if I really got into hot water (groan ), I'd probably get the plug-in - "flood" for photoshop.

[gregcashen]

I am not really having problems, I just don't like the way that splitting the topo takes a lot of the intelligence out of the model. overlapping split regions can be troublesome. Just curious how others were handling this.

[Dimitri Harvalias]

What about creating a pad with water as the material? Any outline is possible and since water will always be level, the 'upstream' sides can be contoured/edited to suit the shore line. For a stream you could use a ramp?