Creating water for aquariums

Callesw

Hey!
I was wondering if someone knows how to make water for aquariums or to fill these tubes




When I create a water volume, it's only a transparent water plane basically
It looks like this



What I want to achieve, is that it's actually filled with water.
Now I only get the "under water" effect if I place my camera right under the plane, which is really weird.

Olli.

the "underwater" effect only works underwater.. Its done using some sort of screenFX normal which displaces the pixels, and a fake camera sway to increas the effect.

To achieve a similar effect in an aquarium tube like that is a little trickier.

You'll need to be using some sort of refraction normal map. You can either apply it using a particle effect (will be easier to animate the water then) or then you can experiment with having a "water" mesh inside the tube with a glass shader material applied and a watery normal map for the refraction.

Callesw

Oooh, I was afraid it worked in some way like that.
Awesome! I'll try that out
Thanks sooo much for the answer!