This is just a little something I've been working on. No real textures yet - just procedural materials. Rendered in FireFly with smoothing on. Metal textures from RDNA and water made with a tutorial from the forums. I'm always working on sci-fi props - but I never really finish anything :)

It looks great! It looks pretty much finished to me, and I hope you'll work on it to your satisfaction. For some reason I imagine a human brain floating in the water. Probably way too much "Star Trek" as a kid. :-)

Definitely needs a brain in there. I have this machine that injects caffein in my veins in the morning. Just need one that injects alcohol into the brain at night. Thanks, you're off to a good start!

Nice job! Marque

LOL xoconostle that was my first thought :) Kagato98 finish it, it looks great already, I can't wait 'til it's done :) Mon

haha - great - yes - a brain in the cylinder is all we need ... ;)

I think Futurama. Not only a brain but a whole, talking head would go niccely into this :o)

Looks good! Interesting based on the replies, everyone imagines this at a different scale... One constructive critique... The water seems to have rounded edges inside the glass which gives it a meniscus appearance (like mercury does in a tube...) If this is very small scale, that might be accurate for a liquid metal like mercury, but water usually has a concave rather than convex meniscus. If it's a large scale item, the curve would be so small in reality, that simply making the top flat at the edges would have the right effect. I think you can improve the water texture also but you might have to make two objects - one top flat disk and another cylinder for the sides. I think the recent water tutorials really apply to looking at water from the top. The texture that you've used on the sides makes the water look very turbulent. It's actually a cool effect, and might work great in a lava-lamp type thing (maybe even with different colors!) One last tip - just before you're done, edit the glass reflection map - that's the standard P5 one, Just make something in photoshop (or similar program) that looks somewhat similar, but is a bit varied (so that your map is unique).

I'm with Ernyoka1 - I can see richard nixon head in that tube big time - just lop off the dome!

I got brain too. Though it should also have a brain stem and posable eyeballs on stalklike optical nerves and some wires running into the base from the brain. Of course, if it's big enough it could be an Empire Strikes Back style bacta healing tank.

Err, yeah, I thought I recognized the turbulence pattern in that tank. _dodger's right, if you used my settings- it's primarily for a large body of water as seen from above. Water in a clear tank wouldn't be blue, but rather clear (remove the color blend channel and set transparency to almost 1.000), and would have no bump or distorion on the sides. When I do standing water in a tube or other container, I actually texture the sides of the cylinder of water seperately from the top, keep the sides smooth, and only add distortion to the top. Apart from that, it looks very cool!

I'm right!!! Err, what'd I say? Water in a clear tank wouldn't be blue But blue Kool-Aid would, and there's nothing better for keeping Hitler's brain alive inside a jar! But yeah, the whole chamfering thing doesn't work here. Unless that's goo with a very high surface tension. Just use a regular cylinder and break the top off (and just delete the bottom) for the water. I'd make it have several levels of cap if you want to make sploshing morphs.