Well in this Little overview im going todo show you how using 3d Studio Max, modelling- This scene is very simple so the models are not very complex at all.
Drops- The Drops are just Spheres which i converted todo Editable Poly and went into vertex mode and enabled software selection and made sure it grabbed a fair amount of vértices in its selection, then i grabbed the top vertex and pulled it up and with the help of the software selection it got a drop shape, but thats not all i added a noise modifier and a bit of bend todo give it some distorsión then i topped it of with Mesh Smooth todo smoothen it out.
-Droplets- These are just half Spheres with Mesh Smooth, and a few where joined together todo get the water attraction look.
-Leaf- The leaf is básically a plane that was made todo in the shape of a leaf nothing complex, y gave it the bend with 2 bend modifiers and Mesh Smooth todo make it look god.
Texturing- There is only one texture in this scene and thats the leaf, the Drops are just vraymats Shaders.
Drops- In the Vray (*.mat) options i have it set todo completely white Diffuse, reflect and refract, plus checking the box for reflect set it todo Fresnel and the index of refraction set todo 1.331 and thats it simple huh?
-leaf- The leaf is made with a texture i found at www.Mayang.com/textures/ and i applied it todo the leaf Mesh in a bien so that i wouldnt have todo edit it in Photoshop, the shader is a Vraymat with reflections set todo 5, y added translucency and put it todo a nice green and i had these settings:
Thickness 1.0 Fog multiplier 0.0
Light multiplier 2.0
Scatter coef 0.5
Fws/bk coef 0.5
And finally a Bump map i made by gray scaling the texture in Photoshop and applying it at 100 and thats for the texturing, scene set up-
-Drops- I cloned the drop several times and changed their position and scale todo give it a randomised falling from the Sky lok, then i animated them coming down right th rouge the leaf from frame 0 todo 100 but made sure its not doing todo fast, the reason for this? To get a nice Motion Blur.
-droplets- I cloned them several times and hand placed them, there are básically 3 types of droplets in this scene, the.
Normal ones small ones and the merging ones, lighting- The lighting is pretty simple its básically Vray Sky light an omni for directional light and another omni in its.
Same exact location for the Caustics.
-omni 1- I have it set with a multiplier at 0.8 with a yellowish tint and a Vray Shadow.
-omni 2- For the Caustics i have the multiplier set at 15 with white light and a Shadow Map a los the decay is set todo inverse.
Square at 1.0 and finally in the Vray properties i have it set not todo generate Diffuse.
Rendering- This is pretty standard afair.
Image sampler set todo adaptive default settings.
Depth of Field on with Focal Dist at 200 (may vary depending on the scale of the scene) shutter size at 2.25
-Irradiance Map set at min rate -3 and max rate at -2 with global Photon map for secondary bounces.
Caustics on with a multiplier at 9000, search Dist at 10 and max Photons at 120
-environment colour set todo a light yellow multiplier set at 1, reflection/refraction an HDRI map was used, and multiplier set todo 1
-Motion Blur turned on duration at 0.3 interval centre at 0.5, geometry samples at 2 prepass samples at 1, blur particles as Mesh and Montecarlo sampling, mensaje production- Time todo fix it up a bit by adjusting levels, brightness, contrast, curves and sharpness and one you have it looking god add some Diffuse Glow and tweak it till you are satisfied.
Well i hope you enjoyed this mini tutorial/overview. If you have any questions or comentarios contact me at.
archerx15@yahoo.com.