Ice material

[nildoe]

Hey guys...

I hope i find help here..Im trying to create and Ice cube material for a coke comercial... how would one go about that?

the animation consists of a number of small icebubes (like theones u would use for whisky ) into a container than having a coke can falling into them...im planning to animate this whole thign with reactor and particle systems... but now im more worried about this ice material...

thx in advance

Nil

[Da_elf]

reactor??? shaaaaame. you should use simcloth
as for the ice cubes, not sure

[flipside]

simcloth for water simulation? For bouncing ice cubes, ok!

[nildoe]

how can i post a test image directly? i

how can i post a test image directly? i dont have a webpage or a place to upload and direct to.

Nil[/img]

[Long John]

then you are out of luck.

as you see a own webpage is usefull.
it only takes 10 minutes to create a account and it will not cost you anything.

[Da_elf]

from what he said there was no water involved. seemed simcloth would do the job. he said ice cubes, and a can of coke falling on them.

[flipside]

Yeah, I misunderstood at first

[Psy]

nildoe, use this space.

The login info is:
Domain: ftp.3dmaxedout.com
Username: vray@3dmaxedout.com
Pasword: govray

[winberg]

Be sure to post the results when you are done, it sounds cool..

-Tom

[nildoe]

thanks Psy

Psy im using your ftp thanks...
now how do i link it to here?

i tried typing "[img]ftp.3dmaxedout.com/coke+ice.jpg" andit does not work...

Im sorry but i new to this thing [/img]

[egz]

Like this (remove the space in the first tag):

[ img]http://vray.3dmaxedout.com/coke+ice.jpg[/img]

[nildoe]

hey thx Egz

lol..thanks Egz...sorry for the trouble.

Well anyone care to critique my ice? or entire scene for that matter

Nil [/img]

[Psy]

it looks sorta cloudy for ice, like the water wasn't all too clear and clean when frozen.

Other than that, the scene looks pretty interesting as far as stills go in showing how the animation progresses. One question however, were you aiming for photorealism or just a cool (pardon the pun) animation?

[nildoe]

Hey thx

Well im trying to get as much real as possible and a cool animation ...but i dont have time to render sweet reflections and refractions ...so i choose to use a whiteish kinda ice and balance how "transparent" the ice is...so far render times are at 5 min, with no Antialias and at 320x240 using the "very low" preset for Imap. I have about 8 to 10 seconds to render...about 250 to 280 Frames. i must render at PAL rez.

Nil

[percydaman]

heres a sample ice scene i was fiddling around with a while ago. If i can find the scene. Ill post it again