Since we are using a map for the puddles anyway, I was hoping that it would be fine to add this step.
This would mean that the asphalt would tile, but the displacement would not, and would have to be applied to the street mesh. For the water I used either water or alcohol. The asphalt is a generic material made with the supplied diff and bump for asphalt d cracked. I just went with my gut as to what would work and look ok in the render. The water itself is a separate object that sits just below the asphalt, and shows up where the dips are. I used one block and meshed the top at 8" and applied a displacement map to make lower areas where water would appear. I have looked in the VRay material editor, and if there is a way to blend materials so this happens in one shot, I don't know how to do that. Yeah, Interesting, I see how it is being done in that video. Here is a good example of what I am after: Does anyone have a clue on how to achieve this using our editor? Tech has suggested making physical puddles on top of the asphalt which seems to me to be really time consuming and awkward. I want to add a generic material and make that white and highly reflective and transparent. In the Sketchup tutorial they use Blend Material for the water surface but in our editor we can only add from the drop down list into the Blend. I have watched several tutorials on this for Max and Sketchup but our editor is drastically different from theirs. Then it needs a layer on top of that which is the water and that needs to be highly reflective and have a bump map to raise it up off the surface a bit. The asphalt needs to have a bump map which is easy.
What I am after is a single material in Vray that can mimic this accurately. This would add so much drama to my images if I could make it work. If you study great architectural photographs they often wet the streets down in front of the buildings.
I have been beating my head against my keyboard all weekend trying to get a decent result for this.
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