I have been in touch with support and they have replied thus:

Per our developer feedback, this is known issue since iClone 5. We'll try our best to improve it in v6.1 patch, but sorry we can't give any assurance at the moment.

The root cause is iClone's 3D View has large variance from the export size.
Our suggestion to avoid the issue you seen is close/undock all the windows panels like Content Manager & so forth in order to have large 3D View before the render.

You also can adjust the screen resolution to be nearest to the render format to see whether it helps.

I'll see if this works next time I use water.

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Like others have said...I'm pretty sure it's the edge of the Wave "Bump-Map" showing. I was able to mitigate it by rotating the water a few degrees around what iClone calls the "Z" axis...it might help :)


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Hai Peter ,
Thanks for suport us .

Note :
- i have send my project " water effect iclone 6 " on my ticket

Hi Space 3D,

Could you please send us the project as I requested in my reply to you via Support. This will help us track down the cause of the problem. Many thanks.

                                                                

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Because it is always a vertical band which only covers the water, it looks like a rendering problem. Water is a different kind of item from other surfaces and for some reason it is not handled correctly.

It is also telling that apparently it occurs with NVidia as well as AMD cards.

I would suggest entering a bug report in the 6.02 bug thread here: https://forum.reallusion.com/Topic224537-385-1.aspx, including a few of your render samples. You may be requested to provide a project that shows the issue.

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I have the same problem. I'm using an AMD R9 270X 4GB card, and have tried to adjust every possible variable to no effect. The size of the water, the angle, the lighting, the video card settings, don't change the fact that there is a noticeable vertical line down the centre of water in the renders.




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Hai friends , water effect alternatife .... for Large Scale

i use another software After effect with red giant tsunami its nice for that , but needed more time for render.

AE red giant tsunami needed 1,30 hour , result good no see line border.

iClone 6 water is good , result good but " see line border on the water "

i think need evaluated for water effect. ( system iclone 6 )

your card might be fine, but it may have access to advanced features with textures and anti-aliasing that are not compatible with iclone - iclone is still new to dx11, but dx11 has been doing tons of stuff with anti-aliasing and v-synch for games that might not work with iclone. If that is the case, it's an easy fix, you don't have to change your card for your whole system, you can make a custom profile for iclone.

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by the way , please info us " Best Setting Nvidia Card " for iclone 6

yeah, that definitely sounds more like a video card thing ....it happens with games too...

you may want to review one of your settings on your video card to see if something that is incompatible with iclone is enabled....

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