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3/4 3DS Max Water effects

With the water material still selected, set the Transparency value to 0.5. Scroll down and roll-out the Special Effects tab. Enable Ambient Occlusion and

set the Max Distance to 4cm.

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Scroll down even more and open the Advanced Rendering Options panel. Set the Max Distance to 50 cm and the Color at Max Distance to a darkgreenish color. The deeper the fountain, the darker the water.



Even further down, locate the Displacement entry under Special Purpose Maps. Click the map button and assign a smoke map to it.



Set the Smoke maps size to 8 and apply { } the material to the water plane.



Switch to the Camera view {C} and render the scene. It should look like this

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To get a more fountain-like look we need to create some ripples. Set the bump map to 0.2. Right click the Bump Maps Ocean map entry and clickclear.

Click the map button and assign a Waves map to it.



In the Waves map change:

the X and Y Tiling to 2

the Num Wave Sets to 4

the Wave Len Max to 30, the Min to 7 and the Wave Radius to 4

the Distribution to 2D



4/4 Tweaks and materials

Finally, you can import our fountain material files.



The fountain_misc is for the small, center- cylinders and fountain base is for the fountain body and the plane that makes-up its base.

Switch to the Camera view and render:



The End

By combining this tutorial with the Realistic Grass, the Old Rock Procedural Texture and the HDR Reflections tutorials we got:

Could of been even better if we would of used the techniques from the Mental Ray Caustics one too. Play around, see what you get.

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