[Neil Evans]

Here is a render of a project I am working on at the moment, I think I have the lighting looking ok, now I have to texture it! The reflective section in the foreground is supposed to be water, I haven't got it right yet.

The trees are Bionatics, the shrubs are paint effects changed to polygons(I have lost a lot of planting as I instanced it and Maxwell doesn't like instances).

Any ideas for water would be welcome.

Cheers

Neil

[smeggy]

Nice looking model. the water would probably look ok as a plastic with bump and texture as the angle and sun direction would make it mostly reflective anyway.

[Neil Evans]

Thanks, I used a plastic but I guess I need to mess with the settings.

[andronikos916]

these are xfrog trees?

[Neil Evans]

No, they are Bionatics NatFX, full geometry not hybrids. I am really impressed how Maxwell can handle large polygon scenes.

[oscarMaxwell]

Any ideas for water would be welcome.

I'll add water material soon.

[Neil Evans]

Cool, I have been messing a bit today and plastic works ok if you change the colour etc. I will post a new image soon.

[sidenimjay]

did you convert the bionatics trees from 3d studio max ?


was looking at their site, i guess you can only "grow" plants on the machine with the license, but if you can write them out as polys that would rule . . .looks like it does . . .

[Neil Evans]

No, I have the plugin for Maya, works really well. There is a new version coming out next week, I believe there will be a downloadable demo.

[sidenimjay]

ineresting . . .

can the trees be written as polys or do you need to render from a given machine?


sorry for the non-Maxwell questions . . .

[Neil Evans]

no they are automatically written as polygons, no need for the plugin on other machines