Boss System

Learning a new feature

Every 2-3 months I’m going to try and create a new little project where I learn something new or a feature I’ve hardly used before. This month I’ve started to look into Maya’s new Boss system, as the only waves I’ve ever had a go at creating till this point was in After Effects using the psunami plugin some time ago.

The plan is to have some sort of boat moving through the waves if possible. The limitation of the Boss system is that it is created through displacement instead of dynamics and due to this it is impossible to have breaking waves.

Image 1 – After Effects Psunami Plugin

Image 2 – Boss System Camera Shot

Image 3 – Boss System Overview

The overview image shows the whole scene, the idea of the set up is having a larger scale lower resolution bit of geometry and only a small area close to the camera with a much higher resolution grid.