Problem with applying Sea water material (renders wrong)
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Hey guys,
I'm totally beginner in a field of Sketchup and VfSU so don't be mad if I'm going to write something seriously stupid in some following phrases
Trying to help a friend of mine.My problem is: I've downloaded Sketchup, regular edition 8, and the newest VfSU for it. I've also downloaded some vismats, which you can find on internet (the one which is a collection of 140 materials). There is one particular which I'm interested in - Sea water material. When I'm just making a normal rectangular prism and applying that material to it, then it renders fine (just rectangular prism in model). But when I'll add some cube with material of leather (also from that collection) it gets really messy (there is no displacement in sea water material, and it should be and even the color of sea water is kinda messed up), but leather material renders fine. That's the first problem. Another one is: in a more complicated model, when applying sea water to the shape of bay, it doesn't work. Again no displacement and color little messed up. Even if I'll try just to put some texture on it (instead of sea water material) it doesn't work properly. I'm really out of any more ideas. So I would appreciate even a little hint. Kinda desperate about that. Oh visopt is set default. Probably I'm doing something wrong, but what is it?
Cheers!
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In order to get displacement, the faces with the sea water need to be in a group. I would start there.
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jeloon, I dowloaded that seawater material and took a closer look. 2 things...
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you do need to group the water geometry into a group because it uses displacement (see tutorials on this site about displacement).
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the water coloring is coming from the fod color set in the refraction layer so you need to have a solid object in order for it to render with color.
I think there are much better sea water materials than this. I really dont like the effect.
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Yep I read some tutorials and get to it that i have to group faces. Now it works properly. Thanks a lot for reply!
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Sorry for interrupting this topic but my problem seems alike. Can someone try explain me what I'm doing wrong? I followed the tutorial (http://youtu.be/vbHdi5bEdlI) until the caustics part, but my water doesn't look like his does when he renders it for the first time.
It's all reflective, you can't really tell it's sea water. I did all the settings like he did, double checked.
My SU file:
http://youtu.be/vbHdi5bEdlIThanks in advance,
Bert
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have you seen this tutorial http://www.nomeradona.blogspot.com/2011/09/tutorial-how-to-create-pool-water-in.html
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