odod Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 i have no idea how to create water in autocad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahim108 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I'll try to make it as short and simple as possible... I'm using a checkered backdrop to let you visualize what's going on, you may omit it for your render, Create a new material, name it WATER, apply it to the region you want to show as water. Using the advanced material type, assign some reflection to the material, render and check... Next add some bump, for this use the "waves" map type as shown, your settings may vary depending on the scale you're working on and your distance from the origin (0,0). Render again and fine tune the settings till you get something that looks like this: Now add a Texture Map for "Diffuse Map", some image like the following. Scale it if its too tiny or large. Render again. You'll get it after some tweaking... The settings that worked for me I hope that was clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeScott Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 I'm confused.. does the water in your image have a thickness? or is it just a flat plane, reflecting the backdrop? It came out great, I just wondered because you talked about using transparency, which should have let you see through it, and you made no mention of reflectivity, and yet it appears to be reflecting the tiled backdrop, and actually isn't transparent at all? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahim108 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 ...and you made no mention of reflectivity, and yet it appears to be reflecting the tiled backdrop... Sorry mate! ...my mistake, I actually meant reflectivity. A fair example of bad hand-and-mind coordination!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeScott Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 ahh.. very nice, thanks! I'm on 2004 and although I don't do much water, it's nice to see they've significantly improved the bump maps. Are those are standard 2008 menus shown? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fahim108 Posted May 12, 2010 Share Posted May 12, 2010 Yup! Those are the standard 2008 menus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odod Posted May 13, 2010 Author Share Posted May 13, 2010 what is standard 2008 minus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 what is standard 2008 minus? They may be talking about the dialog boxes in post #2 item 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeScott Posted May 13, 2010 Share Posted May 13, 2010 It means that those menus are what you see when you're working on material settings, if you have 2008. You have 2007.. the technique is the same, but the menus might look a little different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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