I been compositing the shot for some hour today and here it is.

Will continue working on the color correction and sound fx to the final shot, maybe adding a fresnel pass as well, if I got time over. Have a lot of paper work to do for the presentation and gradshow.

//Henrik

The Gradshow is coming closer and there are some frames that needs to be rendred out! This week I’ve been testing out RFRK magnitueds parameters to render the shader color based on the particles velocity, age, dencity etc etc.  I decided to to build a mesh from the splash particles and use the same particles as a volume object for the mist kind a splash, because it’s easy to set the particles start frame offset in Maya so they won’t overlap each other.

I problem that I have just know to render out the volume based particles in maya with  contribution map or passes, the frames are black and I have the object volume checkbox checked in MR settings. I can see the particles in render view but not i the passes.

Well I will fix it in some way cheers.

A preview how the water effects looks like now. Still having problem with particle rendering, but hopefully I will find a solution soon.

Jumjum chocolate!

I think I will render the splash particles as particles and not as a mesh, to get the details. There will be a lot of particles in the air!:)

Splash!

I also started with the simulation process, trying to find the speed and size of the wave and this is how far I have come with it. It’s only the base fluid no splash, foam and mist are added. It’s 1.3milion particles for now, I will maybe increase it a little more and cut of the particles behind the bridge after the wave is hitting the bridge, because you will never see the particles/mesh in the back after it.

I heard that Maya 2012 have problems with batch rendering with passes and layers, that the time will increase a lot compared to viewport rendering. You can try to uncheck “Auto render threads” in batch render options and put it in manually, and also uncheck “Render on network machines”. It worked for me:)

Beauty + AO.

Render layers setup.

This week I’ve been working with the environment textures, lightning and added some smal props to the scene. I rendred out few frames with AO on the discplacments to get a better view on the scene. There are some changes I will do that I’m not pleased with. The ground and the walls nearest camera have to low texture and displacment quality only 1k I will bump it up to 4K and change the texture a bit on both walls and ground.

Next week I will start rendering out some passes and creating the lowpoly scene for realflow to start the simulation process.

The background is done, using cards was the easiest way to do it, then matching the lightning to the background will be the next tackle after foreground is done.

I added two image sequences with my hand and me waving on the overpass, to fix the timing and positions.

I have been testing out the Grid fluid domain  also called “Hybrido” to create the flood effect I want. What I get out from a hybrido are, the bashmesh for the flood with displacement for extra detalie, splash particles that switches over to Mist particles and also foam particles floating on the surface.