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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on November 1, 2011 at 7:39am

The "trick" is to put a bump map texture on the surface of the water:

 

Rendering Tip - Water Effects

Image of a pool with procedural bump map applied.

Image of a pool with no bump map applied.

Adding special effects such as bump maps to water material is a great way to add realism because bump maps add depth and detail to materials. In the case of this model, the bump maps add the ripples on top of the water we are all use to seeing on any body of water like a lake or a pool.

Also, if your renderer has special water effects such a bump maps, then they can be used to make realistic water which will reflect buildings, sky and other background objects realistically.

• Distorted reflections to represent water ripples.
• More Realistic highlights from reflection of light.
• Realistic transparency caused by ripples and reflection of light.

 

See: Water Materials

Bump Map Settings

Right click on the material in SketchUp to load the Edit or Create Material Wizard

On the Material Wizard use the Texture tab to set a Procedural Bump Map - but you do not need to add a texture.

The image above used a scale of 40 inches and an intensity of 0.20

These are examples of different settings of bump maps using the Wrinkled Procedural Bump Map to create a water effect. Notice how the sky and building are reflected in the water.
The larger scale would make more sense for larger bodies of water.

This image uses a scale of 200 and intensity of 0.50.

 

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Permalink Reply by may shmulenson on November 1, 2011 at 2:03pm

thank you sooooooooo much again.

you're a great help.

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Permalink Reply by may shmulenson on November 1, 2011 at 2:10pm

it's so great to know that there is always some 1 to turn to..

may shmulenson said:

thank you sooooooooo much again.

you're a great help.

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