has anyone try an underwater scene with the new build or will it still not work?
One of Matt's posts said underwater scenes might not work well...
(Or I could have mis understood because the exact phrase was "...except for underwater..." if I remember correctly.)
Okay, thanks Mohawk20
Since the lake shader / object is just a plane, how would you do anything "under" water?
Import a cube or create a sphere, scale it large, use the water shader on it and then just go inside, an easy way to test it.
The sphere object won't work, you'll have to create a sphere in 3ds max that is solid rather than a shell and import that. I'll give it a go now.
**Edit:
OK I created a box in 3ds Max, added a Normal modifier to it and clicked unify normals. I think you'll need to use the trick that Cypher came up with for the glass with the water shader to extend the transparency. Also I think that you could flip the lake object so you wouldn't have to go through 3ds Max every time.
Cypher's topic: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=3977.0;
The render is very slow if using the box from 3ds Max, and doesn't give great results, you need to somehow use a volume modifier on the object but I could only find vol. select.
You would think that even if it's a plane, it could have reflections at the underside, and change light colour below it.
But it doesn't.
I tried to render with the camera below the water surface, but apart from a memory error halfway (because I was running two TG renders at the same time), it just rendered as if the water shader wasn't there ar all.
Hi,
Matt would have to clarify this, but I believe at this time the water shader is one way from "above" the water.
Regards,
Jo
From above:
(http://img120.imageshack.us/img120/7342/41458893io4.th.png) (http://img120.imageshack.us/my.php?image=41458893io4.png)
From below:
(http://img291.imageshack.us/img291/5690/83792166it9.th.png) (http://img291.imageshack.us/my.php?image=83792166it9.png)
(dark surface layer marks under water parts)
Exactly nikita! The same result I had...
What if you make another world with a lake, hang it right above the usual globe. Find yourself a nice spot between the two worlds (under the otherworldly waterplane). Then uncheck rendering the second world itself (if that's possible, otherwise make the water very deep, and very transparant). Just a quick thought... I used this two world method to make a cave, which kind of worked.
---Dune
As soon as you turn the plane upside down, you have the water above you. Or you can use the internal TG-Sphere with a negative diameter, this will turn the outside in.
im working on an underwater scene but it aint really underwater just a reall dense atmo
I wasn't actively working on an under water scene until you asked; I did have the concept on the back burner and had done some of the in theory problem solving. This is a low quality first iteration, I am working away from home on my Pants-O-Matic single core Celeron laptop so don't hold your breath. :) Actually Do hold your breath because even though there is a ways to go with this you are underwater. ;D I'll do a guide to how it's done when I get back to some real computing power.
This is not too bad. If there were objects, lens distortion of some kind could help.
Quote from: Mr_Lamppost on August 24, 2009, 10:50:10 PM
I wasn't actively working on an under water scene until you asked; I did have the concept on the back burner and had done some of the in theory problem solving. This is a low quality first iteration, I am working away from home on my Pants-O-Matic single core Celeron laptop so don't hold your breath. :) Actually Do hold your breath because even though there is a ways to go with this you are underwater. ;D I'll do a guide to how it's done when I get back to some real computing power.
You've still got £30 of rendering with jarendering.com I'm pretty sure.
that is An Underwater scene ...
but how ? can you give some tips ?? general idea...?
NKAID...
did you do it with cloud layer for surface + thick colored haze?
i know i used thick colored haze on my under water attempt. but the waves look cool on yours.
Pure guess, but I'm guessing the camera's upside down.
Take a look at Vol pack 3 of dandelO dandelOs_Public_Library_Vol.2 at terragen.org
NKAID...
That is just wild. Great underwater look.