This is my version of LightWave-water. My goal was to achieve a believable effect without thousands of displaced polygons but with only 1 single quad poligon. I had to deal with the same old "bug" of version 5.6: just with a few percent of bumpmapping the reflections show rendering errors. Other users already documentated this error but I wanted to find a workaround for this special case with the water. I tried out several things until I realized that this rendering errors in the surface show reflected parts of the "negative world". Instead of reflecting the sky, the water reflects at some places the sky beneath the water! So my job was to make a Sky that is mirrored at the horizon. Unfortunately this means that you can't use an Environment Backdrop like Skytracer. In my case I wanted to use a skytracer background and therefore followed the instructions of the "Lightwave Reflection Map Generator: Refgen". All I did after that was to put a mirrored copy of that reflectionmap beneath the horizon in Photoshop. I used this image as an Environment Texturemap with spherical projection and the reflection options of the watersurface are set to raytracing and backdrop. So the water can still reflect other objects. The water uses the following parameters: color 138, 171, 158 / diffuse 40% / specularity 80% / glosiness 50% / reflection 60% / bump 200% For the water bumpmap I used three layers of different sized turbulence. On top with 20% layer opacity and scale of 30cm in all directions. The second layer has 30% opacity and a scale of 1m and the third layer has 10% opacity and a scale of 100m. There are no plugins loaded. The water is rendered from 1m height. By Ralf Maeder Contact: ralf_maeder@yahoo.com