Render this: Fountain

michaliszissiou

The most of it is just PP (the background). But Madhav, this is a great scene, almost like painting. This is the most important thing IMO

Ecuadorian

Michalis, it's a spherical background from KT's collection; no PP is needed to add it. Here's the link to download it:
http://www.kerkythea.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=42&func=startdown&id=44

madhav

Thanks for your comment. yes, Its global downloaded from KT website. I have just exported model to KT, inserted global, disabled sun and applied materials. There are some other global libraries too. You just need to import the file and choose it from the drop down menu in KT.

richcat

Here my attempt with IRender.
Water borrowed from 3DWH by Jam

EarthMover

Nice Rich! Thanks for sharing the fountain spray you found. Ivy looks nice on the wall...I would add a concrete texture to the fountain itself with a little dirt on it.

EarthMover

Here's something I was playing with yesterday using 3dsMax particle flow. Still needs work, but it's a start. (.gif conversion killed the quality!)

solo

Very cool Adam.

Now if you had Realflow, you could get it to spill over and do some crazy stuff.

EarthMover

Who can afford Realflow?! I contemplated Glu3D a while back for doing waterfalls and flame particles, but couldn't get the hang of it. Seems like a good alternative to Realflow for a lot less money.

Vicspa

Recently returned from a trip to Greece, and this was found among the ruins.

Rendered with Podium, composited in Photoshop

olishea

haha good one

solo

Vue.

I created the splash and spray with SDS, more a bubbling fountain than a spray.

the fountain challenge1.jpg

Al Hart

I took your model with water and ran it through Render nXt.

Changes:

turned on the ground plane for shadows (and changed it from green to grey)
used default High Dynamic Studio lighting
Set "rubble" procedural effect on the water. Scale set to 16 for enhanced ripples. (a bird bath usually has smaller waves than an ocean)
Set 50% reflection on the water for enhanced highlighting from the sky.
Added 20% reflection to the concrete so it could have some highlighting from the sky.

I let it "cook" for about 15 minutes while I took a shower.
(The shadows get softer and softer the longer you let it cook)

Here is the result:

boofredlay

Nice one Pete.

toxicvoxel

@al hart said:

I let it "cook" for about 15 minutes while I took a shower.

Am I understanding this right : With nXt you can actually shower in the fountain while it is rendering??
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solo

solo

Another one, calm water (pump bust)

I used some (excuse the shameless promotion) Solopack plants.

the fountain challenge2.jpg

jeff hammond

@solo said:

(excuse the shameless promotion)

1, so do you have a sample available for download anywhere and 2, do you have a tree pack available?

Al Hart

@toxicvoxel said:

Am I understanding this right : With nXt you can actually shower in the fountain while it is rendering??
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Yes. But I was careful not to save the image until I was done.

toxicvoxel

@al hart said:

@toxicvoxel said:

Am I understanding this right : With nXt you can actually shower in the fountain while it is rendering??
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Yes. But I was careful not to save the image until I was done.

OH. - and I thought that was what ambient occlusion was meant for...

Ecuadorian

@richcat said:

Here my attempt with IRender.
Water borrowed from 3DWH by Jam

Richard, that's some of the best non post production grass I've seen in this forum.
Is it a component composed of several clipmaps spread around with component spray? Or a full 3D component? Is that ivy from the ivy generator? I know, too many questions... Hey, that grass and ivy would make a nice tutorial.