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Rendering Techniques >Making a Water Fountain in 3dsmax (Posted By: Arch Ronel K. Pabico)

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Making a Water Fountain in 3dsmax

Software: 3dsmaxAuthor: Arch Ronel K. Pabico

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I want to share my workflow in creating a water fountain using the 3ds Max Particle System.

1. Download the scene file fountain_start.max by going to the bottom of this tutorial or the fountain model. If you

havent you can create your own model for the fountain source. Any model will do. To begin, set some 3ds max

parameters just like the following: set the units to meter, and the renderer to scan line (for the meantime we will use

scan line because we will do some series of test renders).

2. From the command panel, browse on create , particle system, then select super spray. Or from the Menu Bar,

select Create, then browse on Particles then Super spray.

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Drag anywhere from the top viewport as if you were creating an icon (round icon image with upside down arrow) just

enough for you to see and handle. From the top viewport, move the super spray icon to the center of the stone

fountain model, and from the left view port, move them vertically on to the uppermost part of the stone fountain (see

image below).

3. With the super spray icon still selected, go to modify panel and adjust the some basic parameters as shown on the

image sample. Now play the time slider and move it along to say on frame 10.


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You can see how the fountain works. However, you can adjust any parameters as long as it suffices and fits to howthe fountain looks like. For the tutorial to not be more complicated, let us leave some parameters in its default state.

Off Axis - affects the angle of the particle stream off the Z axis (along the plane of the X axis).

Spread - affects the spread of the particles away from the emission vector (along the plane of the X axis).


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Off Plane- affects the angle of emission to the Z axis. This has no effect if Off Axis is set to 0.

Spread - affects the spread of the particles about the Off Plane axis. This has no effect if Off Axis is set to 0.

Speed - the speed of the particle at birth, in units per frame.

Variation- applies a percentage of variation to the speed of emission for each Particle.

4. As you move the time slider, the more the fountain goes up; now let us control it. From the Command panel go to

Space Warps, then to Forces and select Gravity from the list.

Then on the top view port drag anywhere. Then on left viewport, move the gravity icon on top of the water fountain

you have created just enough to how the water goes up.


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With the gravity icon still selected, go to main toolbar and select bind to Space Space Warp. See the figure. Drag to

link the gravity to the super spray. Then adjust some basic parameters.

Strength- this will determine the upward force super spray particles behavior, the more amount, the particles will

suddenly go down, the lesser amount, the less it will go down. Adjust and play around with the strength amount until

you're satisfied with how your fountain goes up.

Decay- when Decay is set to 0.0, the Gravity space warp has the same strength throughout world space. Increasing

the Decay value causes gravity strength to diminish as distance increases from the position of the gravity warp

object. Default=0.0.

5. Now that we already set the upward strength of the fountain, the problem now is how it falls and reaches the

surface. From the command panel again, go to Space Warps, choose from the list Deflectors then select Deflector. Or

go to the Menu Bar Create - Space Warps Deflectors Deflector.


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6.Then on top viewport drag a Deflector reactor (rectangular shape) on top of the stone fountain just enough to cover

its size. Name this deflector 1. While the deflector is still selected, go to main toolbar and click Bind to Space Warp,

then drag the deflector 1 to Super Spray Reactor. On left view port, move the deflector on its y-axis just on top of the

water on the stone fountain.


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Then on modifying panel, adjust the bounce amount to at least 0.3, with a variation of 4.0% and friction to 10%. Now

play the time slider and observe now how your fountain behaves and reacts to the deflector. The particles bounce as

it touches the water surface (deflector). You can adjust the amount as you like. But observe the height of the fountain

balance with the downward force, theoretically, not much bounce will occur.

7. Now, as you observe, after the particles bounce on the first deflectors, it goes down beneath the water pond

surface. Now repeat the process of creating deflectors (name this deflector 2), but now make it big enough to cover

the water pond surface.

From the left viewport, move it just on top on the water pond surface. Make the bounce amount to 0.1, for its

gravitational downward force is already decreased. Now play the time slider to see how it works. Save your work.

8. We already completed the water fountain, from start until it goes down to the water pond. Now water from the

fountain not all goes down directly to the lower surface, it's stored up in the stone fountain until it overflows down to

the pond. Now freeze all other objects and unfreeze the model water top. It is the stored water in the stone fountain.

Then on command panel browse on Particle system, then from the list select PArray.


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From the top viewport, drag anywhere on the screen just enough for you to see the PArray icon (see image below).

9.While the PArray icon is still selected, go to modifying panel, click select object then select the water top model.

This will make the water top model as a water source for overflowing water.

10.Then activate the left viewport, select the water top model, right click and then convert to poly. Maximize the

viewport, then click polygon and select all around edges of the water top model by window crossing across the edges,

see the image sample. Then click on the small box opposite the polygon on the modifying panel so the selection is

still active as you proceed. Select again the PArray icon and from the parameters, select the check box Use Selected

SubObjects. This means that the overflowing water will only come out on this side and not to the whole object. Then

adjust some basic parameters as seen on the figure.


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11. Now play the time slider, observe the behavior of the PArray P articles -- it spreads all over in horizontal direction.

Let us put some control over it. On the Command Panel, go to Space Warps then to Forces then to Gravity , on top

view port, drag anywhere there to create an icon for gravity reactor (rename this to gravity-overflow).


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With the gravity reactor still selected, go to main toolbar click on Bind to Space Warps icon and drag the Gravity

reactor to PArray particles. This will link the PArray particles to the Gravity Reactors, then just adjust basic

parameters as shown. Now move and play the time slider and observe how the PArray particles move.

12. Now that we made them fall downwards, let us control where it goes, definitely it must be stopped on the water

pond. So to make this activate again the Space warps then to Deflectors then to Deflector. On top view port drag

somewhere on the screen to create a Deflector icon just enough to cover the whole water pond (name this deflector3). Then on left viewport, move the Deflector icon just on top of the water-pond surface. Then adjust some basic

parameters as shown.

13. Applied materials to all of the objects. Here are the materials i used:


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14. Now all the parameters are nearly complete. Attach your materials to all the objects and to the particles. You can

create your own material for this. Note that there are some adjustments on materials if you switch on V-Ray render.

Put on lights the way you want . Put on target camera. Now make some test render.

The particle look isnt good, so let's do some fine tuning.

15. Adjust time slider to frame 15, adjust super spray particle percentage to 100% and change rate to 300.


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16. And PArray particles adjust percentage to 75% and change rate to 200 .

17. Adjust camera basic parameters, enable multi-pass effect, enable Display Passes by clicking the box, adjust total

passes to 10, and duration frame to 1.0 , bias to 0.5, the activate Normalized weights on Pass blending. Activate the

renderer you prefer.


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18. Right click on each reactor (Super Spray and PArray) and activate object properties then click on motion blur one


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after another. Fire render and enjoy

Comments and suggestions are welcomed!!!

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Scene Files:

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Comments: (Currently there are 52 comments.)

[Anonymous]johan ( 2013-02-18 20:19:48 ) [Pos t Comments]

this is good, and i want to try.

[Anonymous]Zerodaj ( 2012-10-31 07:55:48 ) [Post Comments]

This tutorial is so great. I just wish the wording was a bit better and more clear, I still got it, but I struggled a bit.

Also, the materials were all missing for me. I know this is old, but, still willing for future use, try and archive the

files (if available). I don't know the version this was. Or at least include them anyway.

[Anonymous]hamid361 ( 2012-08-24 14:28:39 ) [Post Comments]

verrrrrry nicccce,tanks

[Anonymous]dfd ( 2012-07-29 22:25:42 ) [Pos t Comments]


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[Anonymous] ( 2012-04-19 07:21:23 ) [Post Comments]

Excellent Work!!!! Congrats!!

[Anonymous]hak33t ( 2012-04-07 20:44:25 ) [Post Comments]

Nice toturial man. keep it up! tnx..

[Anonymous]Uzair ( 2011-12-15 08:40:41 ) [Pos t Comments]

Thnxx man For thiz tutorial :)


awesome work.. keep it up

[Anonymous]pavani divedi ( 2011-10-03 17:14:15 ) [Post Comments]

excellent.Good tutorial

[Anonymous]Sonoma Park Bench ( 2011-06-28 15:35:56 ) [Post Comments]

Great article post thanks keep it

[Anonymous]Alireza Moarrefi ( 2011-06-28 13:13:55 ) [Pos t Comments]

hi everyone I want make fountain like some fountain in some parks if anyone can help me I wait for yourhelp.please send me email in this addres [email protected]

[Anonymous]Curved Garden Bench ( 2011-03-16 15:01:49 ) [Post Comments]

We offer over 1000 pieces of cast stone architectural, plaza, home and garden art pieces: including hundreds of

fountains

[Anonymous]osera ( 2011-02-26 14:17:52 ) [Post Comments]

nice

[Anonymous]shit ( 2010-11-23 00:37:36 ) [Pos t Comments]

ngoma shit

[Anonymous]as ( 2010-11-19 00:57:38 ) [Post Comments]

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[Anonymous]nomanjilani ( 2010-09-08 08:16:08 ) [Post Comments]

really its a beauty full work

[Anonymous]supriya ( 2010-08-20 16:49:53 ) [Post Comments]

little complicated but good


good

[Anonymous]masmar ( 2010-06-25 06:47:13 ) [Pos t Comments]

very goooooood


Very good lesson.Excellent.

[Anonymous]Malindu ( 2010-05-23 13:48:15 ) [Post Comments]

Thank you Brother!!!!!

I'm From from SriLanka.

[Anonymous]shivakumar ( 2010-03-20 11:36:16 ) [Pos t Comments]

very nice.........

i ill try........

[Anonymous]SABAH ( 2010-02-21 20:13:33 ) [Pos t Comments]

NICE

BUT CAN BE BETTER

[Anonymous]saru ( 2009-11-11 22:39:05 ) [Post Comments]

vry nice but were to download the fountain file

[Anonymous]dhinesh kumar ( 2009-10-14 17:15:59 ) [Post Comments]

thank you

i want more tutorial

[Anonymous]Mano ( 2009-09-12 17:17:41 ) [Pos t Comments]

Very Nice...

Thankyou


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i cant use gravity....?? ? why???

[Anonymous]Mejbah ( 2009-05-08 00:22:54 ) [Post Comments]

thanks 4 share

[Anonymous]Andrew ( 2009-04-18 23:40:27 ) [Post Comments]

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[Anonymous]Trang ( 2009-03-23 12:34:15 ) [Post Comments]

So great man

[Anonymous]telekinezi ( 2008-12-20 06:20:38 ) [Post Comments]

good

[Anonymous]RAVI TENALI ( 2008-12-02 02:13:38 ) [Pos t Comments]

VERY BAD

[Anonymous]pereraak ( 2008-11-10 19:33:55 ) [Post Comments]

very good

[Anonymous]rakesh ( 2008-11-03 15:54:06 ) [Post Comments]

very nice


excelent


thank for this project

MANIT, PRASHANT


good thnx alot



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good thnx

[Anonymous]paulina selly ( 2008-07-19 15:17:36 ) [Post Comments]

so........beautiffull,thanx

suresh ( 2008-07-06 09:35:34 ) [Pos t Comments]

thanks

[Anonymous]abomalek ( 2008-06-14 02:39:52 ) [Post Comments]

goooooood

[Anonymous]namgyal ( 2008-06-08 19:09:12 ) [Post Comments]

thanks,excelent tutorial


I'd like anything in this website

[Anonymous]dileep ( 2008-05-02 23:13:22 ) [Post Comments]

very nice tutorial

[Anonymous]tutorialol ( 2008-04-26 00:29:01 ) [Post Comments]

nice tutorial


nice tutorial

[Anonymous]somu25 ( 2008-04-06 14:36:28 ) [Post C omments]

Excellent!

[Anonymous]case ( 2008-03-28 22:14:03 ) [Pos t Comments]

a good tutorial

[Anonymous]benkenobi ( 2008-03-23 02:32:44 ) [Post Comments]

some screen shots would be nice

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