Wonderful render!

Super Scene!!! Would have definatly Come in the top entries.

nicely done!.. sorry this didn't get finished in time. Is that another olive sitting in the martini glass and reflecting/refracting down the stem, or is that the glass material fading to green? I'm sure it's just this monitor, but it's hard for me to tell. Either way it looks cool. Great work. :)

Whoa!

There are only two olives on the 'sword' in the glass. The green you see is refraction/reflection of the stem. In my haste to finally get this done, I forgot all of the nomenclature: olives and pimentoes=metaballs; glassware courtesy of FWTempest; Gin bottle from Free Stuff (appologies that I can't remember the giving person that created it), shaker and measuring cup, likewise. Cocktail napkins are terrains with my own photo texture and bump maps, sword toothpicks are Questor's swords from DAZ3D freestuff. Notepad is "box" from UV Mapper with my own texture as is the "perfect Martini book" (the texture, that is, the book is from poser freestuff). Pen and nib are lattice & metaball, respectfully. The scene took a little over 38 hours to render (premium, 64 rpp, tir at 6). After about ten hours, I realized that I had the wrong texture on the barback... oh well... Thanks for your comments, I would have loved to have this done for the contest (Ill timing, these wars!) Can I even get to this month's challenge??!!!

Oh, FWT: please group your next set of glassware; the two-toned martini is two glasses, booleaned, and overlayed. I think this is what killed my computer... PS I was going to use the 'Gold' texture from "simple and (yeah, right) Fast" menu.

Oh, the "simple and fast" gold was for the backbar... CRS is hell. (C= Can't R= Remember S= S@#$)

I would have voted for this..........LOL :-)

nukeboy... I think you could've achieved the same effect in the DTE, rather than using the method you did, and have the glass fade from clear to green. I'm off to work right now, so I can't show an example, sorry. Maybe someone else will, or I can do it when I get home. Those glass models are pretty high-res for close-ups (like the latest ones in my gallery)... I think what I would do if I put out models like this again is include models of varying resolution, and maybe some made of more than one part, like you suggest.

Very nice! When are we invited over for the party? Lin

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Thanks, Aldaron, that's exactly what I was talking about

Thanks folks! I'll give that method a try... I was going to add a glass ice bucket with cubes, but I wanted the render to finish this century :-)

:)