Pool reflections

[Laurie]

I im rendering an external shot with the pool in the foreground. The problem is that the pool looks too mirror like.
How do i add a slight ripple effect, or is this asking to much? If not, is there a way to reduse the amount of reflection? Perhaps the ideal would be to do both.

Any suggestions?

[Pibuz]

Hi Laurie!
Two hints for you: to make water plane less reflective use water IOR (1.33).

To make a nice ripple here's the workflow:
1. Instead of assigning a simple color to the water plane, try setting a texture, for example use the water texture that comes directly with SU mats presets. This won't give you my favourite bump, but it's just a way to start.
Now UVmap the texture in SU, to get the right size of your ripples.
When you're done, sot mat transparency to zero.
2. To edit SkIndigo material linked to your water mat, double click on it (you already know, isn't it?), then set the mat to specular, give 1.33 of ior; in the bump map slot, choose the water texture and give a bump value of 0.002.

Try this and upload your attempt!

I used this technique to render a wall of glass blocks and it worked..

[Kram1032]

Ripples also will slightly reduce the reflections:
Reflections are dependent on the angle, you see the reflective surface from. If you look at perfectly flat water, from this angle, you have in your scene, it'll most likely look like this. If you have a rippled surface, it'll have some more reflective and some more transparent parts.

[alexmeyer]

Dangit mark, that's what Laurie said! The question was HOW to do that in sketchup!
Though, I don't know how to do that exactly either... I'm not too much of a Sketchup user.



p.s. I'm just messing with you mark, you know that, right?

[Kram1032]

He said, he wants to add a ripple effect and he said, he wants to reduce the reflections.
I connected the two of them
Pibuz already offered a solution.

And yes, I know that. usually, it's called spam, though...

[cpfresh]

maybe try using the topo tools (smoove) to a create few few gentle waves ..?

[Laurie]

thanks guys

been super busy, but when i can i will give it a try. my other question, is that this is the second pool i have tried, and they both seem to come out quite dark.

for a lighter, more transperent pool, any suggestions? Would i just set they opaqueness closer to zero to achieve both?

thanks again guys, you all super friendly.

whaat im impressed with indigo, well done.

[crojack]

there is a water preset, use that. I just did a small pool, used one of the Sketchup water textures, used the same texture as a bump, and than set the texture to the water preset. The material will go completely transparent in the model, don't worry about that.