swimming pool material

[rendimage]

trying to get a swimming pool material but nothing looks good.

anyone got a mat they can post

r

[Psy]

yep, be back in 1 sec w/ it.

[dieciduej]

I used a brick map to get the tile pattern with splat or speckle as the map for the coloring. The file is not at hand at this moment, when I get in the office I'll post the mats.

JoeD

PS Here is the idea.

[dieciduej]

Another day in the office. Here is a file with the material file, max file and wood image map. If is doesn't look right on your project it is a scale issue. I used feet, and the pool was to scale, not generic. So you may have to readjust.

http://www.dizzy3d.com/vray_forum/pool_mat_test.ZIP

JoeD

[Psy]

yeah, sorry about me, but there was a tute for doing pools here in the old forum, i searched my personal archives and found it, so here ya go.

have fun

Water Recipe:
1 Plane, segments set to 200x200
1 noise modifier
1 standard material, see below

Water Material Recipe:
1 standard material
1 Bump, noise
1 Reflection, VRayMap w/ Fresnel Falloff
1 Refraction, VRayMap

NOISE:
Scale: 10
Fractal: On
Roughness: 0
Iterations: 6
STRENGTH:
X: 0
Y: 0
Z: 1"

[rendimage]

psy

for the water do I put anything in the diffuse slot? if not its a standard material with what opacity?

also i understand that i put a vraymap in the reflection and refraction slots but where does the fresnel fallof go?

[R2J2]

there's a check box in the VRay mat'l/map for fresnal reflections/refractions

[Psy]

here's the mat file.

http://www.3dmaxedout.com/stuff/Water.mat

[rendimage]

can't seem to open the mat file. Is it max 5? I'm using viz4. Constant bloody headache but I like the ADT to viz file linking.

In any case. I've got a plane that has the noise applied. I have a standard material. diffuse black. and a vraymap in both reflection and refraction slots. what are the % amounts of these and opacity level. I'm just not getting very good results. I must be retarded.

[Psy]

The mat files should be backwards compatible, I would think so at least.

Regardless, here's a pic of all the settings.


Hope it helped, and don't get yourself down, it takes a while to learn the tricks of Vray. That's what this forum is for and why people are here to help.