Water Tutorials

[Tiny Piney]

Can any one point me to a good tutorial on Water please?

[Poco]

There are several kinds of water like for example: water in a bottle, seawater, water in a pool, under water, animated water, ... What kind do you want. Plus what renderer do you use in MAX, scanline, MR, ... ?

 

If you use Mental Ray then you will find some great examples + scenes here:

http://www.jeffpatton.net/Mental-ray.htm

 

Hopes this helps

[Tiny Piney]

I use Max scanline w/ lighttracer. The water will be a shallow pool and will not be animate. Thanks

[miguelafi]

y can always use a shader thats the best u can do with scanline render...

 

try these shaders... http://darksim.com

 

u will find a couple of nice water shaders.

 

good luck...

[miguelafi]

sorry i made a typo the correct link is http://www.darksim.com/

 

try the symbiont free shaders...

[voltaire_ira]

if you're using mr then check out lumetools.com

[jucaro]

here's a basic water material that'll work on most render(if not on all)

Put a noise material in bump slot and adjust as needed (for the distortion and tiny ripples)

 

-make the material semi-transparent

-adjust the material's IOR (water IOR is 1.333)

-make reflectance value to something more or less like that of glass

 

...render with a cold bottle of beer

 

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And here's a link to more material IOR

http://www.3dluvr.com/gabesilver/ior.htm