Waterfall/Water wall material?

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Pandekage
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Waterfall/Water wall material?

Post by Pandekage » Mon Jan 21, 2013 9:46 am

Quick question: How would you recreate something like this? It's a water wall - basically water runs down a stone face and looks pretty.

http://www.waterscapes.co.za/311.html

At first I was thinking materials, but then perhaps modeling the actual water and ripples, and applying a water texture. Any ideas?

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Re: Waterfall/Water wall material?

Post by Zom-B » Mon Jan 21, 2013 11:04 am

I would try to use the image of that waterfall as a Displacement map that I would put on a box that is positioned over that stone wall.
Give that box a water material and see what happens :)

The tricky part is to give that "waterbox" some displacement that looks "wavy" enough to look like water flowing down the wall, but also thin.
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Re: Waterfall/Water wall material?

Post by Pandekage » Mon Jan 21, 2013 1:38 pm

Ah right, displacements. Thanks!

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Re: Waterfall/Water wall material?

Post by StompinTom » Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:00 pm

Yeah, paint the displacement for the general forms and then add a high-rez bump map to get all the tiny rivulets and ripples. Should look great with a basic water material then.

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