Best pool animated and still water.

[rakeshkumar3]

Hi everyone,

 

what is the best way to achieve the awesome pool water effect either with plugins or without. Please provide a link of your best water work and the process to achieve the same. looking forward for your support.

 

 

Rakesh

[Nicolai Bongard]

If you require geometry, you could try the houdini plugin. It has a free demo. If not, just make a shader that is reflective and refractive with some bump.

[rakeshkumar3]

Great. And what about for animated sequence.

[Nicolai Bongard]

The waves can be animated in Houdini. You can also animate the bump on a shader/material if you use smoke/noise/wave/other procedural maps.

[Nic H]

i think houdini is total overkill for a 'simple pool water'

try some nested noise maps and displacement on a plane or the faces of a box, that should get you pretty close

[Chris MacDonald]

Agreed, Houdini is a serious bit of kit just to do water in a pool. Noise maps can be animated, so work very well when used with displacement.

[John Dollus]

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kand/caustics/CausticsGenerator_v1.4.zip

 

I have used this for what seems to be a decade. It's pretty great and works for both stills and animated sequences. Don't overthink it. It's just a rendering.

[rakeshkumar3]

Thanks @John. Will try the same.

[paneli]

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~kand/caustics/CausticsGenerator_v1.4.zip

 

I have used this for what seems to be a decade. It's pretty great and works for both stills and animated sequences. Don't overthink it. It's just a rendering.

 

SigerShaders have some great water mtls.

 

Check it out here:

http://www.sigershop.eu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6:v-ray-material-presets-pro-for-max&catid=31&Itemid=168