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- Oct 2
- United States
- Deviant for 10 years
- www.daz3d.com/sickleyield
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I make props, conformers and utilities for Daz3d figures!
My DAZ3D store: www.daz3d.com/sickleyield
And at Renderosity: www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/in…
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I am unable to accept commissions.
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Riversoft Art at Daz3d has ones for G3-G8 and G8-G3, but I don't think he has one for V4-G8 as of yet.
This artist has one for Legacy to G3 and then G3 to G8:
https://www.deviantart.com/darkhound1/gallery/57738218/da-shop
Bummer. I don't know of a direct V4-G8 converter. I do have a tutorial for doing it manually that's worked for me when I absolutely have to have that, but it's a multi-step process that not everyone's going to want to attempt:
I've been looking for a good tutorial on building an water volume in Studio.. I want to do underwater renders in a swimming pool. I've tried to adapt your God Rays tut and my experience with Reality volumes but can't achieve a result I'm satisfied with. Caustics seem illusive regardless of lighting so if you have the time, a good tutorial would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike
Hi!
Iray does have the ability to render caustics from a refractive volume, but unfortunately it does not generate water caustics correctly regardless of the volume's refraction. With that said:
The basic water volume is a cube with a sculpted top surface in your modeling program and the refraction set to 1.33 and 100%. If you need color, then the thin-walled should be turned off and transmitted measurement distance used for color and turbidity (this is an absolute, not a relative value, so it needs a higher value the bigger the volume for any color to show up; lightness/saturation of the color plays into this too).
In products and renders of mine that use caustics in water, such as the Depths set, I used a flat plane off-camera with a caustic transmap and a light behind it to cast a caustic "shadow." The Depths includes this caustic light in the set. It's been a while, but I think one or more of my pool or Rigged Water sets do too.
Have you ever tried displacement in your "water" cube?
Mike