It's about ten degrees outside here in Helsinki right now (night time) so I sure wouldn't complain if I was lying on that patio watching that sunset :-).

Interesting choice of words, look at the title I gave the image about 6 month ago:

http://geissinger-design.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2ntjjs

Glad you like it, but I saw a big mistake, the water aint moving, I made the waves by a displacement modifier and an animated texture, but it didnt work out :(

Bout the weather: germany,11°, rainy. 

Yeah, that place looks really nice. also nice arcitexture.

I'm sorry that the moving watersurface didn't work.

So far i didn't play around with the fluid simulation, but I plan to. So I asked myself why you didn't use fluid simulation instead of a displacement modifier with an animated texture?

Maybe a displacement modifier would be good to create the right starting conditions for baking the water with the fluid simulations with nice little waves.

It's not a critic, I'm just courios why you choose this method which I think is more creative, but less obvious.

Thanks for your positive comment, and critics are always welcome too:)

To answer your question, 1. a fluid simulation wasnt necessary for this, as the water is resting except some little waves. Fluid sims are more for moving/floating water. And I must say, they dont work too well yet, need a lot of time to setup correctly and a long time to bake. 2. thing is, fluid sims are not working yet with renderfarm.fi, a fluid sim can contain 250gb of data or even more. But theres a thread in the forum where they talk about how to solve this.

Weather update: germany, heavy windstorms and even small tornados in some areas, feels like 0° :(