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Vray – Water

http://www.tutorialsgarden.com/articles/8-Vray-water-material/

Hi again. This days on TG you can find some basic material for Vray. This one is for water. If you want very realistic render you need to use V-ray Render plugin. On picture below I was use  water material.

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1 Open Material Editor by pressing M on your keyboard.

2 Click on Get Material button, and chouse Vray material from Materail/Map Browser

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Rename material to “Water”

4 Click on Diffuse color, and set to black.

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5 For the Reflect color use this settings: Red 232, Blue 232, Green 232

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6 In the Refraction menu change Refract color to pure white and change Max depth to 10. See picture below.

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Scroll down and find Options menu. Just turn on “Reflect on back side”

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That is all. Like I said this material is for V-ray. Just to know, results of this material while you render also depend from your Render and Lighting settings

How to Set Up New Project

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HOW TO SET UP PROJECTS

Set up New/Edit/Set Project by going up to

File –> Project –> New/Edit/Set

Maya Beginner Basics

 

NEW PROJECT

1. Name: Name of your project

2. Location: Where the folder of the project will be stored

3. Click on Use Defaults. This will create all necessary folders within the project folder.

4. Click Accept.

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PROJECT FOLDER

Within the Maya directory in MyDocuments, you’ll find the new project folder.

The two folders right now you should know are scenes and sourceimages.

scenes: maya files are stored here, of the scenes you are working with

sourceimages: textures that you will apply to your models

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