I've read a few threads here from time to time about the difficulty of making a good water in Poser. So... using Parametric Terrain Editor, Photoshop, and Bryce, I thought I'd try a little experiment. This is my first shot at it and the possibilities seem endless. The tweaking capability is endless and I believe even greater results are possible. If this looks like something folks are interested in, let me know and I'll put up a tutorial.

I am very interested! how did you do it?

The short version is that I made an image in the PTE (a freeware that works with Bryce terrain/lattice editor). I textured the terrain in Bryce with a standard preset and exported the terrain. The export includes various mtl files in .bmp form depending on what settings you choose in the texture editor. From there I imported the terrain to Poser and started setting up the materials lab. At one point, I put one of the mtl files in Photoshop and gave it a layer transparency, but after playing in Poser, I'm not so sure that its necessary. I had variations like you wouldn't believe in Poser through the Material lab and decided to post that image because it was the overall best. I'll try and get up a basic tut this weekend, but no guarantees. I'm testing some things and have to work in the morning as well. Plus I want to play a bit more with this before doing the tut. The ripple effects don't show well on this image so it does deserve more attention before i write.

Keep in mind I'm new to Poser, about 3 or 4 months so far, so I've got some learning to do on the materials lab (among many other things with Poser). If I knew the mat lab better I'd have a clearer way of doing the tut. But maybe I can get up something that gets folks started.

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Oh, keep an eye out here cuz this is where I'll post it. And in light of this, I'm going to expand my tut on exporting terrains from Bryce cuz the current tut glosses over some important steps with the mtl files. Ok, eric sits in the corner and shuts up now.

Nice texture. The only thing missing is refraction. That would be a tough thing to get in Poser, that Bryce does fairly well.

Hi When you say materials lab how do you mean? Dave

, I'm going to expand my tut on exporting terrains from Bryce cuz the current tut glosses over some important steps with the mtl files. sounds interesting. i'll be looking for this one.

I believe there's also a "waves" deformer or something like that in Poser. I haven't tried but you might be able to use it - I've used that type ov plug-in in other apps with just a flat square of many triangulated polygons and gotten ripples.

TheWanderer, hey Dave, sorry, I gotta get my terminology right. By material lab I meant poser-materials / Surface Material Screen.

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I wanted a realistic water effect with breakers and wave behaviour (a logo rising from the pool). I have been searching for poser stuff, asked Vue d'esprit users, ended up with Lightwave (I used Lightwave some 8 years ago on the Amiga computer, it was first called Silver I believe) and the RealWave plugin. This is a frame of a gallrey page: http://www.nextlimit.com/realwave/gallery/gallery.html Main page: http://www.nextlimit.com/ Extremely realistic wave simulation. Installing is a bit complicated and the tutorials are not cut for LW 7, but it does work like a charm. The bad news is that the plug-in costs some 500 dollars, the good news is that it they offer a demo so you can use it for one project, sell the project and buy the plug-in