Render this: Fountain
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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:
Al Hart
IRender nXt from Render Plus -
Nice one Pete.
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@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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Another one, calm water (pump bust)
I used some (excuse the shameless promotion) Solopack plants.
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@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?
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@toxicvoxel said:
Am I understanding this right : With nXt you can actually shower in the fountain while it is rendering??
.Yes. But I was careful not to save the image until I was done.
Al Hart
IRender nXt from Render Plus -
@al hart said:
@toxicvoxel said:
Am I understanding this right : With nXt you can actually shower in the fountain while it is rendering??
.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...
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@richcat said:
Here my attempt with IRender.
Water borrowed from 3DWH by JamRichard, 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. 
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Dragon Fountain. (I know, no spray... it's... off for the season, closed for cleaning)
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Nice one, Chris...
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The tank is from 3dWH, the ground texture is from GC Textures, the sky is from one of the Twilight skies packages and the plants are from Pete's (solo) collection.
How you like your fountain now!!!
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very cool image.
You broke my fountain!!
Would be cool to see a SP explosion, where the fountain busts into hundred of flying bits.
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@solo said:
very cool image.
You broke my fountain!!
Would be cool to see a SP explosion, where the fountain busts into hundred of flying bits.
Now tell me pete, do I promote another app?
Hey Boofredlay, nice scene. Is this in the alley of the Stoppels?
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boofredlay that image is amazing! so funny
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@solo said:
Another one, calm water (pump bust)
I used some (excuse the shameless promotion) Solopack plants.
nice one Pete.....but it needs a Flamingo.....!!!
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@earthmover said:
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.
Thanks - Looking for a nice concrete/similar texture at the moment. It was a nice marble texture but didn't show up.
@ecuadorian said:
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. Thanks again for the comments, but
sorry to disappoint as its part of the rendering software, that you apply as a property to sketchup materials, a bit similar to the free tree program from Al(but when rendered comes out 3d), Its a ground cover version that I have adapted for ivy. Maybe Al would consider a ground cover/ivy version for sketchup. 
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Quick scene with HDRI background lighting and image. Evermotion Audi and light posts added for flair.
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looks really realistic, what renderer is that?
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@richcat said:
@earthmover said:
Its a ground cover version that I have adapted for ivy. Maybe Al would consider a ground cover/ivy version for sketchup.
We have that in the plans. (To create a custom, tileable material).
However, when I tried to put ground cover under my fountain it took so long to render that I gave up. (Ground cover works by generating thousands of leaves and flowers at render time - so it doesn't work well yet for large areas)
But it is very impressive if you were able to get it to work or Ivy.
Al Hart
IRender nXt from Render Plus
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