AC 9 Water rendering tip for LightWorks

[Dwight]

Decrease water transparency from 32 - 72 for improved reflection

[Anonymous]

Dwight,

I'm convinced.

This water stuff is cool.

I look forward to having some time to play with it. When I did a bunch of renderings in Art*lantis for presentations the only materials we changed were glass and water and they made all the difference.

I also learned that too much reflection can look pretty strange. Even if it is real, it is not always what one thinks looks real.

[Dwight]

And nothing is ever as smooth or perfect as in cyberspace so grime and roughness make folks comfy. It is more like their living room.

[Ben Odonnell]

Really nice Dwight.
Is that a reflection map that you have used on the water?

Cheers.
Ben

[Dwight]

That is a modified [increased opacity] LightWorks material as applied to the waterwave object - a poly mesh of adjustable amplitude - reflecting the actual background elements of the scene.

So, unlike the old days, we didn't need to cheat.

LightWorks allows for control of five aspects of material quality, including a sort of fuzzy blob opacity that is ideal for mapping a water surface.

[Ben Odonnell]

Thanks for that.
I'm off to try it

Cheers.
Ben

[Dwight]

here

[Dwight]

blobby reflection

[Anonymous]

Looks great Dwight. Just tell me this: if i saw it correctly on the screenshots, that`s "Water 3" material. And in Archicad 12, i have only 2 water materials. Have made a new one (duplicated one of this two) with your own texture? If that is the case, wich texture have you used?

Thanks.

[Dwight]

I called it water three since the first two were taken.

There's no image texture - this is a shader with two classed defined.

It will only show in a LightWorks rendering - you must use a rendering of the water surface made straight on for an image in OpenGL renderings.