Indigo Renderer Forum

I need to model a little pool (filled with water) and render it in Indigo.
I've modelled the structure starting from a plane, and extruding the faces - no problem for that. How I should model the water? Here are alternatives i think about:

1) Starting from a cube, subdividing a face and applying a displacement map onto it;
2) Same as above, but starting from a plane.

Some ideas?

Stating from a grid? xD
I don't really know, what your problem is...
But think, plane (or grid) would be better than cube...

- start with a grid (or a subdivided plane, same thing) and extrude the whole thing down to the bottom of your pool.
- add a simple material with a noise texture in one of the texture slots.
- select the top vertices (the surface of the water), hit F9 and hit Noise repeatedly until the 'waves' are big enough.
- if you dont like how it looks, you can scale the surface to 0 in the Z axis (so its flat and you can start over), tweak the noise settings and do it again.
- otherwise, i imagine a very smooth bump map might work for small ripples, applied only to the surface of the water.

hope this helps...

Thank you! I've used the StompinTom method with the "Stucci", and the result is really realistic! Now i try to render into Indigo

yes, stucci in wall-out is perfect for ripples