Creating a realistic waterfall...Advice Needed

[danb4026]

I have to create a water feature which will be a waterfall cascading over and around an entry to a night club. The view will be from the outside looking thru the fall and into the lit space beyond.

 

I have always found creating waterfalls to be more trouble than they are worth in Max, at least something that looks realistic and of good quality.

 

Am I better off PS'ing the waterfall in or is there a technique that could give good results in Max?

 

Any advice on techniques, whether it be PS or Max, to create this effect would be really helpful.

[abmitalia]

I'm not an expert in PS ( not even the first in max) but when it comes to emulate nature I would do it like this:

 

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w1 - Choose an image you like as a waterfall you want to create

 

w2 - Select the part more intersting for you

 

w3 - make the choosen part negativ and push down the saturation to 0

 

w4 - resize the image to your need

 

w5 - copy it and creat a new image

 

w6 - Strighten it up

 

w7 - make it negativ again

 

The watermaterial in vray should be with groundcolor '' white ''

 

w6 becomes your 1) bump map 2) Vray material - refraction map 3) trying out even the reflection map

w7 becomes your displacment map

 

Well - try it out - RK

[francosd]

CHECK THIS TUTORIAL http://www.evermotion.org/tutorials/show/7887/creating-waterfalls

 

I MAKE THIS WITH IT http://vimeo.com/6932840

[BVI]

I've had a good hit rate with using brushes:

 

http://www.brusheezy.com/Brushes/1679-Waterfalls

 

and

 

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=43676

 

and

 

Waterfall Photoshop Brushes

 

there are lots if you google.

[danb4026]

Thanks guys. I am going to try both techniques and see what works best for my image. I will let you know how it turns out. Thanks!

[MrCAD]

Here you go.. I made a sample file in 3ds max 2009 and used the Mental ray to render...maybe you can tweak it further for your needs.

 

good luck

 

Meher

[danb4026]

Meher, that was really nice of you! Thanks. I am going to see how I can tweak it to make it work with my file and vray.