Let’s try to reproduce my observations and impressions in Blender to create convincing CG water. It is just a material test with no surroundings and definitely has to be adjusted in a complete scene.

How to make Water in Blender

go to Water tutorial.

ISSUE 24: From out of the deep

From out of the deep

Global illumination is a very popular method for lighting three dimensional scenes. Unfortunately, most of the methods are very slow and requires lots of ressources. Ambient Occlusion is a method for simulating global illumination, while keeping a respectable ratio between results and computing times.

As well as anything related to raytracing with Blender, because of the supplementary computing time required by your computer, raytracing is only an option that you should feel free to activate and deactivate. This is done by the mean of the Scene menu (F10 key). The Render tab shows a button labeled Ray you will have to activate in order to use raytracing in your pictures.

goto Tutorial :

http://feeblemind.tuxfamily.org/dotclear/index.php/2005/01/16/10-didacticiel-locclusion-ambiante—tutorial-ambient-occlusion