{"id":1404,"date":"2009-11-13T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T05:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2009-11-13T23:10:46","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T05:10:46","slug":"3dsmax-mental-ray-water-surface-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/1404\/blog\/3dsmax-mental-ray-water-surface-tutorial","title":{"rendered":"3dsMax mental ray Water Surface Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This technique is a favorite of mine for its\u00a0simplicity\u00a0and effectiveness at creating a <a href=\"http:\/\/3dtotal.com\/team\/Tutorials_3\/3dsmax_water_surface\/water_surface_01.php\" target=\"_blank\">convincing water surface<\/a>. \u00a0Remember, though, that you won&#8217;t be able to see below the surface because the material setup in 3dsMax is opaque. \u00a0At least it&#8217;s fast to render!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1405\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/13.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[1404]\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1405\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1405\" title=\"Water Surface\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/13.jpg\" alt=\"mental ray Water Surface\" width=\"200\" height=\"115\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-1405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">mental ray Water Surface<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p>This tutorial will guide you to achieving a fairly realistic open water effect which can even be animated, using the \u2018Ocean\u2019 shader from the Lume Library.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This technique is a favorite of mine for its simplicity and effectiveness at creating a convincing water surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrbluesummers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}