Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Any advice on distorting transparencies, reflections for under water ?

MistyLaraCarrara opened this issue on May 29, 2009 · 6 posts

MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 29 May 2009 at 11:53 AM

If you be under the water looking up at the sky, especially for animations, surface ripples go by.

Or looking down, things look magnified under the water.

I'm working on a Mermaid panorama scene. My efforts are looking too cartoonish.

Those dynamic hair roots are a bane to my efforts. aahhhh

Thanks for letting me peeve! lol

Fazzel posted Fri, 29 May 2009 at 1:30 PM

For water you should use the refract node, not transparency. This will give you the effect you are
looking for.

MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 29 May 2009 at 2:46 PM

cool. thanks

Daidalos posted Fri, 29 May 2009 at 2:47 PM

Point a spotlight straight down at the water from the suns direction too. ;)

I have found that it helps if there's actually light coming from the light source in the scene.

"The Blood is the life!"

replicand posted Fri, 29 May 2009 at 3:17 PM

Also, depending on the size of the water body you're looking to create, try displacing the surface with a wave function.

Water gets murky with distance, so you'll want some sort of environment shader to attenuate visibility.

MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 29 May 2009 at 3:40 PM

That's in the 3d nodes?

I'd like to animate a splash landing.

I setup the Orca to dip up and down.