Natural water, streams, rivers etc
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Hello chaps. Please could you advise me on the best way to draw a natural stream please? I'm planning to design a garden that has a brook running through it and my main problem is showing water running through it in some manner that doesn'tlook too awful. Once ccompleted I'll render using Podium, so I don't know whether that might gave a bearing on your preferred method.
Thank you once again.
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Wow! I've actually managed to catch you guys out for once. No worries, I'm sure I'll come up with something ... awful
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Hi:
If you want to work on some theoretical site to get the hang of it, I would recommend the native Sandbox tools, using Stamp.
If you have terrain data such as contours for a real site, I would suggest Fredo6's Toposhaper. Or possibly Curviloft.
You can also do terrain sculpting with Artisan.I guess I assumed you had already experienced these before, and, I guess I was waiting for somebody else with more insight to help you.
I recall a post a couple of years back illustrating the construction of a waterfall that was really amazing to me, however, I don't recall the artist's name.I hope you gain something from this reply.
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Thanks Mitcorb, you're correct, my issue is more to do with how to show the water rather than the terrain through which it runs. As it is a 'brook' and not a 'stream', the water trickles unevenly over rocks etc and drops into pools in some places along the way and I'm not sure how I should attempt to show it.
PS: The waterfall you mentioned sounds interesting, I'll try to look for it.
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I know Earthmover did a fountain earlier, here is a link to it. Hope it helps. http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=285320#p285320
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Also another interesting tutorial by nomeradona on his blog.
Not quite perhaps what you want but some usefulhttp://sketchupvrayresources.blogspot.ca/2011/08/making-of-flowing-tap-water.html knowledge. -
Else see Lumion
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Also, if your thinking of rendering you could take the approach the legendary Silver_Shadow used in "The River Runs Through it". http://www.sketchupartists.org/tutorials/sketchup-and-advanced-modeling/the-river-runs-through-it/
If not' like me you'll pick up a hell of a lot of modeling technique from this.
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