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I have a small site that I want to really show off the ponds. I am doing this in Desktop. I have the grass region all ready with the ponds CUTOUT and then I have the pond region inside of it. The region that I cutout is the edge of the pond. NOT the water level. What sould be the best way to show this. I want the edge of the pond to gradient from grass to brown grass and then have the water level start there about 5 feet down....Any suggestions are helpful
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I'd model the pond out of the groundplane and make use a Blend material to make a mask to separate grass from pond/clay/gravel what ever you have for bottom material.
Then I'd create a plane as watersurface with a slight noice bump and a bit of fog to get a nice darkening of the pond as it gets deeper.
-Carl -
sweet...Now explain that agin...lol.....No really.....Here is the file
http://www.dbfinc.com/studio3d/downloads/autopark.zip
I have never really messed with mixing and masking as I have never needed to. UNTIL now that is... I appreciate any help you can offerComment
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I don't have the time to make it for you right now.
make a simple test.
Create a plane, model a pond in it
Get a screengrab from Top viewport of the mesh
open photoshop
Ctrl+n
crop it to fit the mesh
paint in black and white black for ground white for pond
back to Max
create 2 materials that you like one for the grass and one for the pond
create a new material that is a Blend material
drag the grass to Material 1
drag the pond to Material 2
klick the Mask and add bitmap (this is your mask that you painted over your mesh screengrab)
assign to groundplane
render
good luck
I'll check back to see if you are doing ok
-CarlComment
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