Help With Pool Water

[mikes8500]

Can anybody give me some pointers on making my pool water look better

 

Thanks

 

Mike

[erickdt]

This got me thinking about how I would do this. I typically do renderings of tradeshow booths which do not present scenarios where you'd need to render water...

 

I'd do it like this: first of all, I'd use a standard VRay material, basically setup like you'd setup a basic glass material except with a little bit of bluish fog. Then I'd apply that material to a displaced plane (standard displacement with a noise map).

 

Here's the result of my test...

[zhopudey]

I use a solid object as the water object (usually a box), which extends slightly beyond the pool edges. Material is simple vray, black in diffuse, almost white in reflect, and light blue/green in refract, and a noise map in bump.

Edited November 3, 2009 by zhopudey

[odouble]

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