Name: Physical Open Waters
Brand: Physical Addons
Price: 50.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4 (14 reviews)

Physical Open Waters

by Physical Addons in Addons

Item Rating

This item has an average rating of 4 from 14 ratings by the community.

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3D Studio
11 days ago

Very good! The presets are not that useful, as you will have to configure them to get a good result, but with a little tweaking you can create excellent oceans with good performance. Maybe the people who rated it negatively did not understand how the addon works. It is an excellent addon.

drhafarr
about 2 months ago

A great add on for instant calm /rough oceans at scale , lots of parameters of control even under the water line ,all works well in Eevee and is actively updated to make the software even better . For the future i would like to see more realistic wakes for bows and sterns of ships boats and thing contacting the water ,there is wake contact already but i think this could perhaps be improved more overtime . I think this would be an excellent addition to this already superb add on.

Physical Addons

about 1 month ago

Thanks for the great feedback! We’re happy to hear the add-on is working well for you. Improving wakes for boats and other water interactions is definitely something we’re considering for future updates — stay tuned!

ZZBS
2 months ago

I dont get it. Its quite terrible. I try to make a simple scene with out of the box ocean, presets as they are, and the result is awful. You should have added a few ready scenes that can be loaded so see this ''great'' addon in work. But .....hopeless.

Physical Addons

2 months ago

Thank you for your feedback. Could you share more details about the issues you're facing with the ocean and the presets? We would like to better understand the problem and help you achieve the results you're looking for. We could send you a Blendfile for this scene (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHFbY45Xr6I). Let us know if you are interested. You can message us through blendermarket or join our discord community https://discord.gg/YyqwRGH3KX

Jevpro
4 months ago

I bought this add-on last year and was very satisfied with it, to the point that it became one of my favorites. Unfortunately, since Blender has updated to versions 4.1 and 4.2, the add-on is no longer compatible with Mac, and I can no longer use it. I regret that no warning was given to users regarding the add-on's incompatibility with Mac ARM.

Physical Addons

3 months ago

Hi! We're happy to hear you like the addon, unfortunately the changes that happened to Blender made us pull support for silicon chip MACs. We are actively working on getting it back stable, in fact the addon works if you have the PSA addon.

Steve J
4 months ago

The underlying tech behind this is good and shows loads of potential – but all my oceans look fake and weird, as if they're covered in regular fine ripples, like corrugated metal (all the presets do this). I asked about this on the Discord but got no reply. Is it some issue with the macOS version? Is it just a weird design decision? No idea. I hope future versions will be improved and at least come with some proper documentation. I have to work too hard to get it looking half-way decent – disappointed so far.

Physical Addons

4 months ago

Hi Steve,
Thank you for your feedback. We are actively working on these issues and are expecting a bugfix update soon. Your experience is important to us, and we appreciate your patience as we strive to improve. We are also working on enhancing our documentation to make it easier for users to get the most out of our product, especially MAC OS users who have been having issues with POW due to the way Blender works on Mac.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention, and stay tuned for updates!

JASON
5 months ago

Although the Addon looks great it doesn't work well with Mac. The latest release just doesn't work due to Metal not supporting certain nodes which makes it very limiting. I think this should be made clear on Blender Market place.

Physical Addons

5 months ago

Hi, Jason!
We're working on adding an extra warning for Mac users as well as trying to figure out how to run it on the Metal version so the addon is available for everyone. Thank you for your feedback.

Marko
6 months ago

Wow!!! :)

This "Physical Open Waters" Addon is Really Amazing!!!

I've been using it for a couple of months now, and it's so Easy tu use, just click in the N-Panel Tab, to Select "Ocean / POW Ocean"; then click once more on the "Add Ocean" Button; and you're Blown Away by the Hyper-Realistic Ocean Created in the Middle of Your Scene!!!

Then Tweek the Easy to Use Parameters, and enjoy Rendering The Most Beautiful and Realistic Ocean there is!!! ;)

Regarding the "Physical Addon Team"; I had a couple of Questions rearding the "Physical Celestial Objects - Procedural Planets", because I wanted to know, if it would suit my planned Renders for Educational Purposes for Physics Students in University and High-school...

They were Extremly Quick to Respond and answered all my Questions; and offered me even an "Educational Discount Code" to Upgrade my Physical Open Water Addon, to the Full Bundle, comprising also "Physical Celestial Objects" and "Physical Starlight And Atmosphere".

And those Addons are also Hyper-Realistic and Lightweight on your System (unlike other Addons, which offer good results, but take forever to Render a Single Image in Cycles);

These Physical Addons work almost identically Fine in Cycle and in Eevee, I mean deliver in both Cases High Qulity Renders... So for Animations, you can switch to Eevee and Enjoy the Videos of Beautiful Skys and Oceans on Earth; and Planets in Outer Space; after a considerable Shorter Rendering Time then in Cycles!!! :)

Thanks Physical Addons Team for these Amazing Addons!!!
And keep Your Great Work and Motivation to Change the 3D Industry!!! ;)

Physical Addons

5 months ago

Hi, Marko!
Thank you for the awesome review, and glad that you not only enjoyed our addons but also the support chat!
~Reina

Zach Lambert
6 months ago

Extremely confusing addon to use. I couldn't even add an ocean to my scene for an entire month because I didn't have a world in my scene and the only way for me to know that I needed one was to post in the Discord server and wait for a response from someone.

The Discord server is the only thing that can be found in the documentation tab for this addon, which should have been a red flag but I've officially learned my lesson now.

From what I can tell, there is no proper documentation for this addon. You buy it, you try to use it, and if you can't figure it out you're forced to ask in a place where you are guaranteed no quick reply. I've had this addon for a couple months now and the farthest I've gotten with it is adding an ocean to my scene that the addon brings in with a default size off 2000m and all I see in any display mode is 9m wide mess of unusable geometry.

This addon fucking sucks.

Physical Addons

6 months ago

Hey Zach! Thank you for sharing your experience with us. Your feedback is valuable and we're committed to improving the user experience of our addon. Regarding the discord conversation, it did turn out you were using Blender in an unexpected way, which didn't let the addon work "out of the box" like it usually does. We are taking your comments seriously. At the moment we are working on reducing the time to market for updates and documentation has been put off far too long, but I can ensure that documentation is on its way. If you have any specific issues you'd like assistance with, please don't hesitate to reach out. We want to ensure you get the most out of our product.

srey laurent
7 months ago

Awesome add-on. Makes water so realistic thank you ! Was curious if you have plan to make it compatible for blender octane render one day ? Cheers !

Physical Addons

7 months ago

Hi! Glad you're enjoying it! As of now we don't have any plans on making our addons compatible with other render engines, but they might work anyhow! Testing needs to be done.