dude mlk your footer scared the hell out of me…I was going to click to check out your site and the hallelujah was hella loud in my headphones…thats funny
haahaha i know it would do that… it’s only 11k btw… Oh and, just PLEASE dont go check my site… because a) it’s in froggyfrench and b) it’s been “under construction” for something like 6 months now…
mlk that looks great! goes and takes the tut 3d gave
btw why do you have french keyboards?
If you wanna switch up and use max or LW I can write a cool tut for you on the ice thing. Take a look at these cubes. Hey dippy if you see this post that tut I gave you does some kinda weird things. Like using reflection maps. If you have probs with that tut I can show you a diff way. Basically you do not need reflection maps. and I do not know what the “v” thing was for. well let me know.
looks good, 3d-iva !
Using caustics for the latest pic?
3d i will let you know how it turns out, right now i cant even get my glas to werk right grrr so i am just gouing to do it and not worry about the glass. but if you could write up a little tut or something that would be great!
Ok i finished! i ditched the glass cause it just wasnt werking! but i’d say it turned out ok!
btw its set to 1/2 quality and its small so i could render real fast and start on a new project.
should of zoomed in more on the ice cubes, nice though :beam:
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So the ice cube competition is on 
soulty, i will re-render and such in a second. i just want to finish this smoke tut. lol maxhelp.com is like THE recorse!
dave, no comp, just a “race” lol.
Hey Soulty Nah no caustics but I figured out how to fake them. I need to get my hands on a plugin for caustics…any recommendations?
Dippy That tutorial was not that good after all sorry I recommended it the reflection map is not necessary those are used (to me) when you are trying to immitate a light source but do want to have the light source in the scene. Refraction ( about 1.1 -.13), transparency (about 50), Noise on the object and a real noisy bump is really all you need. Also up the segments on the chamfer box will give you a lil better ice. Mine is not great but eh…I’ll see if I can put a tut up. Remind me if you dont see one in the next day or so. (bad memory)
Hey check out my PHOTO realisitic Ice.
hmm i will try all that, overall i think it was an OK tut. i mean it got the basics down yah know? i kinda could figure out the shaky parts but i will re-render, i thought it came out ok over all though.
dude! thats really a photo huh? If not that is good…
dippy change your footer to “41” yours ice came out good. If you take out the reflection map you will see what i am talking about.
HHAHAHA , lol, sorry had to do that. getting my camera ready for tomorrow. :beam:
lol, Well i could do that in maya, havent tried yet. 
::and rendering with mental ray 1.5 will take toooooo longgggg.
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hey soulty! that IS a photo! or is it? lol really looks it if its not…
see above post, lol, yeah it is a photo. 
oopps never refreshed the page, and 3d. i cant change it to 41 cause we were a min. apart, he was 01 i was 02
ok 3d NOW i can change it to 41 lol. i finished my smoke, i will take out the reflec map now. 3d is FUN!
3d here is the new pic with 3 different materials:
on the far left is left the same;
in the middle is w/o the REFRACTION;
on the far right is w/o the REFLECTION;
personally i like the one on the far right the best, and that is the one that you recomended no?
