Any clue to do this material

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Hi everyone, would you have any clue to do this kind of materials?

http://www.vitra.com/products/home/living\_room\_screens/algue/default.asp?lang=il\_fr

thanks

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which material?

Should I assume the tree?

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yep which mtl??? :roll:

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maybe they meant all the materials… notice there is an S in here post.

Nothing there looks all that difficult to be honest. But some clarification as to what you want would be great.

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sorry i mean…

sorry i mean the wall in mesh. It,s call algues… the main problem is that we would see it from the side. so the opacity map wont work… Any clue.?

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click on

click on ‘’ Photos ‘’ to see the kind of product. It will be more easy to see the kind of material. It’s a plastic mesh… with depth…

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If you already have the opacity map texture, then I’ll say go with vray displacement.
Hint : adjust the water level setting in vraydisplacement.

Other than that, you can always just model it in max (maybe renderable spline?). Same trouble if you start from scratch.

edit: some illustration for the displacement setting:

Cheers!

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Hi jodestroy,

I had to use this material for a project last year, I think I used opacity mapping on a thin box then added a noise modifier for a bit of variation.

I used this map anyway…

Hope it helps,

Dan

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i agree the displacement method is going to be your best bet to getting this done

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thanks guys.

thanks guys, nice work. As soon as i got something that could be usefull, i’ll post it. Will be back at work in 10 days.

thanks again for the map.

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best way

finally, the best way to do it is … Spline ( line ) with radius. Enable in viewport and renderer . Like that no displacement to use ( i think it’s too time consuming with pc ) i can reduce it or not if the client ask.
thnaks for the help

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I would not use displacement for something this easy to model. By taking a bit of time and modeling the shape out in splines quickly you’ll easily save the time in rendering x 10 instead of displacing it.