[lsega77]

great render, a little too blue though. Maybe desaturate the image a little bit (or blue color at render time) to get more of an "icy" feel. Right now bright blue seems crystal (agreeing with Herve').

[ivox3]

Not too bad Max ! ....I think if you smoothed the bumpy texture out a little bit, ...it might get a little closer. I can't think where in nature a piece of ice might be constructed with this texture ....not saying it can't happen ...just that it might be a little rare. ....so to the mind and eye ....the immediate thought is not to define it as a piece of ice. .....just presenting a little psychological angle on rendering.

[lsega77]

Ah But Ivox3, if Max's ice falls in the forest will it make a sound? (oh sh&t wait... that's a philosophical angle your's is psychological DOH ).

Sorry Max, didn't mean to mess with your thread.

Back on topic though: I agree that maybe the ice is a little too "bumpy"

[ivox3]

...aaaah, ...such a well rounded thread.

[Maximus3D]

Thanx guys

michaelplogue: Thanks yep you're right, those things are also needed to make it look real and good, it'll be something i'll try once we have a working RC5, it'll be exciting for sure to see what it'll be able to do.

lsega77: Thanks yea it's too blue to be ice, that's something i have to correct either in post or by doing a new rendering.

ivox: Thanx there's actually no bumpy texture on this object, all there is is the mesh itself which looks like that. From the start it's a laserscanned stone i used in this test and it's this "displaced/bumpy". However i'll try to smooth out the surface irregularity and make it more like real ice is, perhaps via Zbrush it's easiest to do those things.. i'll try that. Nice input btw

lsega77: Hehe good one and i don't mind "thread hijacking" like this, it's funny.

/ Max

[Xlars]

Very cool experimental render .. I look very much forward to see what more you come up with in this direction. Now I cant help stop dreaming about all kinds of winter materials (and models for it) - iceberg, clear ice, ice with subtle snow covering, snow with reflections, icecubes etc. etc.

Wonderful caustics here btw.

[abgrafx3d]

cool ice render trial Max

[Maximus3D]

Thanks Xlars & abgrafx

Xlars: This weekend i have more time to work more on this and try to make it look better which i will hopefully do with all the great tips and suggestions i got here yeah man the caustics are sexy hehe

/ Max

[MarkM]

Maximus,
When I first seen this image I thought it was a crunched up piece of aluminum foil… thinking about it why don’t you throw a greenish emitter in side of it and make it glow like a kryptonite rock.

Mark

[mverta]

Thought I'd take a quick stab at this... this is about a 5 minute setup in RC 5 and a 1 hour render.



_Mike

[Hervé]

wow.... now we have some ice.... scotch & soda for me...

[markps]

At first glance I thought someone had posted a refference photo.. wow that's striking.

[Maximus3D]

Dear god.. Mike hehe that's awesome! i too thought it was a photo at first.

That rocks!

/ Max

[Hervé]

Dear god.. Mike hehe that's awesome! i too thought it was a photo at first.

That rocks!

/ Max

he he ice rocks..... just hope to see rc5 today

[markps]

have you noticed the blue noise on the right bottom side of the cube? is that a reflecion of the ground ? what about the noise on the ground is that the begining of the caustics forming?