Author Guillaume Plourde, [email protected]

3ds Max 2022+ compatibility and statically linked FFTW libray: Josef 'spacefrog' Wienerroither, [email protected]

Changes Visualstudio project restructure 3ds Max 2025 SDK compatibility 3ds Max 2023 and 3ds Max 2024 builds added removed libfftw3f-3.dll dependency (now statically linked ) Note: remove libfftw3f-3.dll from 3ds Max root folder ...

Installation

Install the Visual c++ Redistributable 2012 for your system. Max 2018 and 2019 require the 2017 version Redist.    
Copy hotOcean_Max_20XX.dlm to your 3dsmax\plugins directory

Usage Apply the Houdini_Ocean modifier to any mesh object. For best result use a plane object with over 100 heigth and width segments. The following properties are avialable,

Resolution
Size
Wind speed
Wave height
Shortest wave
Choppiness
Wind direction
Damp Reflection
Wind Align
Ocean depth
Time
Seed
Interpolation