Added: 22 August, 2007
Group: 3D studio max
Learn how to create pool in 3D studio
Author: TechTut.com
page: 2
Pool materials
3. Materials
Open Material editor and select first slot. Go to little square and choose Bitmap.
![Tutorial Pool materials 1](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/12.gif&w=450)
Choose some texture and apply material to pool. Tile it for 10 times.
![Tutorial Pool materials 2](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/13.gif&w=450)
Now it is time to make material for water. Select another slot and open Standard button. Open raytraced_2.mtl library and select Water material.
![Tutorial Pool materials 3](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/14.gif&w=450)
Close Material editor. Make one new plane that will act water and place it in pool. Set Length Segs to 128 and Width Segs to 128.
![Tutorial Pool materials 4](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/15.gif&w=450)
Move this plane for a little and assign to him Displace modifier.
![Tutorial Pool materials 5](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/16.gif&w=450)
Set Strength to 2 and open Material Editor.
![Tutorial Pool materials 6](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/17.gif&w=450)
Open Raytrace Basic Parameters by hitting little plus. Drag Mix material for bump to Map in Displace parameters. Click Copy and say OK.
![Tutorial Pool materials 7](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/18.gif&w=450)
Assign Water material to plane and close Material editor.
![Tutorial Pool materials 8](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/19.gif&w=450)
3. Rendering
Go to Rendering>Render. Go to Indirect Illumination and activate Final Gather and Global Illumination option.
![Tutorial Pool materials 9](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/20.gif&w=450)
Go to Environment and set Background color to white.
![Tutorial Pool materials 10](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/21.gif&w=450)
Now hit F9 to render and see result.
![Tutorial Pool materials 11](/img/phpThumb.php?src=21/22.jpg&w=450)
In this tutorial you learned how to make pool with realistic water. There is many more way to create water - but this is the fastest.
Thats all.
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