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Subject: Water in poser 5 ( bit nude)

thgeisel opened this issue on Sep 28, 2002 · 32 posts

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thgeisel ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 2:25 PM · edited Fri, 10 January 2025 at 12:28 PM

love the matlab and playing a bit, trying to make something looking like water ,a bit bumps,a bit reflection,a bit refraction. all used on the square. Rest nerds backdrop. hope you like it

Jackson ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 2:30 PM

Ditto!

wdupre ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 2:31 PM

very nice! could you show us a screen shot of your material room settings please?

Jackson ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 2:33 PM

How'd that happen? wdupre's post was here before mine! Anyway, I was dittoeing (?) her/his comment.

-Waldo- ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 2:36 PM

Please post screen shot of your material room setting for us!!!! Waldoo

thgeisel ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 2:58 PM

thats it, took from the basic mats one called "caustics" and connected it to the bumpchannel. ( thats most of the mat,dont worry,it looks a bit confuse Than added one reflectionnode and one refractionnode. You can play with the values to get more reflection or refration. for the surface i took the highressquare from the p5 props

ronmolina ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 3:03 PM

Wow that is really good! Ron

thgeisel ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 3:09 PM

One thing to get refraction working!!! turn off the " cast shadow " for the square!!! Took me one hour to find this!!

Niles ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 3:32 PM

PabloS ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 3:51 PM

That's impressive! Did you have to do anything to get the ripples?

aleks ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 4:14 PM

very nice!! :) i'd turn refraction off, though. it shouldn't be possible to see through water from this angle.

aleks ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 4:15 PM

what's in those four math functions?

lemur01 ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 5:08 PM

cool!

quixote ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 5:47 PM

nice. love it.

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Kelderek ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 5:49 PM

aleks, load the "Caustic" material from the "Basic Materials" folder, there you can see the math functions. thgiesel used that as the base material.

kuroyume0161 ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 6:12 PM

I'll just sing with the chorus: Superb!! Very realistic, with proper reflections and transparency in the water!! Excellent Work! You're Hired!! :) Kuroyume

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EricofSD ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 7:32 PM

i took a shot at water in P4 using a bryce mat on a terrain export. It was nothing like this! Very well done. Now in the future, if Poser adds a primitive room for some basic modeling, like Bryce, we're in like flint.

Penguinisto ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 8:49 PM

This is indeed nice... I just wish I knew where the caustic mat was located... /P

CrystalDragon ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 9:00 PM

It's in "materials menu" (the side bar)>"basic materials". ~DM

Penguinisto ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 9:10 PM

yep - found it... thx! /P

chohole ( ) posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 1:56 AM

Great image, now all I need is my P% to arrive, then I can play.

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timoteo1 ( ) posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 3:37 AM

Fantastic!! Incredible use of the materials room. I've got to try this on my own. Very cool, thanks for sharing. I wonder how hard it would be to animate it realistically? Any takers? (I've got too many animation projects in the fire, but maybe I'll give it a go.) -Tim

thip ( ) posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 5:07 AM

WOW - what a lady ;o) Seriously, what an image! CL oughta acquire this as a promo image for the mat lab and the Firefly renderer. It shows a beautiful effect (in a great pic, too) that just can't be done in P4. Thanx for sharing.

pa902 ( ) posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 4:13 PM

How come when I set my reflect and refract colors to white like you have them does my water just render as bright white? And is the water in yours reflecting the background picture?

pa902 ( ) posted Sun, 29 September 2002 at 4:16 PM

The caustics material connects to displacement -how do I get it plugged into the bump node?

dougf ( ) posted Mon, 30 September 2002 at 3:33 PM

:-)

ceba ( ) posted Mon, 30 September 2002 at 11:20 PM

Most Awesome. Followed your example and was able to get the effect. I just have one question. ??? How did you ever ever figure this out. ??? Thanks for sharing

Stormrage ( ) posted Mon, 21 October 2002 at 12:46 AM

has anyone tried this with the new patch? I cannot seem to get it to work at all Sigh and I want to!

ceba ( ) posted Mon, 21 October 2002 at 10:22 AM

which patch 1 or 2 beta? I running both and all works fine. Note that it does require something to reflect against the water. otherwise you get only get white. place any thing above the "water" and you'll see its reflection.