Gradient colored water material ?

[lichtmaschine]

Hi,

I wonder how it`s possible to create a water material which changes the color, e.g from left to right ? Normally, you would use the Fog color to colorize transparent materials, but unfortunately there is no map slot where you can put a gradient map in.
Any suggestions ?

Best regards
Ingo

[simmsimaging]

VrayBlendMaterial with a gradient in the blend slot?

[simmsimaging]

Had a recollection that this came up recently: vrayblendmaterial probably won't help you out - not just yet anyway:

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...=fog+color+map

[Morne]

Depending on your situation, just stick it in your diffuse then. Your refraction will never be 255,255,255 then. Try maybe 200,200,200 for refraction or even lower. Just a quick cheat, not the most "accurate" but it can work in some instances

[lichtmaschine]

Hi Brett,

thanks a lot for this very useful information. Unfortunately, I can`t wait for the next servicepack. So there isn`t any solution to get a transparent material which has a color gradient in Max ? Strangely enough, I even didn`t get this result when I use the Arch+Design material which has a refraction map slot. For now, I use a workaround with two layers which I have to comp in post, but this shouldn`t be the best way to achieve such a simple effect ?

[lichtmaschine]

Hi Morne,

thanks, this is exacly what I just did Putting the gradient in the diffuse, rendering layers with the different colors of the gradient in the refraction slot of the Arch+Design material and comp this together gave me a result which I can work with, but this is really not the way it should be..

[Morne]

Here's an example of the method I said by putting the gradient in the diffuse, then lower your refraction colour down to mid grey or whatever.
The box on the left is solid glass. The 2 boxes on the right is "fish tanks" so hollow inside, but still the glass has a thickness