hi all
first post here so please be gentle,
I have spent the last few day trying to create a volume of water/ocean for an illustration, but am having great difficulty trying to create the effect, basically i have a sea floor and a cube that has an animated surface(mesh animated)and within this cube i am trying to create a volume effect that looks like deep dark water and the furthest point from the camera, and fairly transparent on the camera side of the cube
any suggestion gratefully received,
ps
i used to be a lightwave user and would have done this with voxels, does max have a similar thing

cheers
Al

for transparent materials, if you are using mental ray and the Arch&Design material, under the advanced tab you can set the color depth, and you get to define the distance and the color at that distance, this might work for you, i use this for glass objects where you want the thicker pieces to have more color and the thinner parts to be lighter and more transparent.

3ds Max Design 2010/11/12, 64bit, Boxx technologies, dual quad core 2.8, nvidia quadro 4000, 20GB Ram, use mental ray for rendering, windows XP pro 64bit

You many find this tutorial helpful:

http://mentalraytips.blogspot.com/2007/06/nice-water-with-miamaterial-arch.html

3ds Max 2013, Maya 2013
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit
Core i7, 12GB RAM
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 (Driver 267.17)

may thanks for the replies, have been looking at parti volume, but am strugling with the settings, does anyone know if they are scene size dependant, I expect they are
cheers