water/underwater shader preview v0.99
- June 24, 2013
- 7,818 Downloads
- 67 Likes
- Blender 2.6x
- Render: Blender Internal
- Creator: martinsh
- License: CC-BY
Description:
This is an ongoing project of mine with an aim to create a realistic water and underwater shader. Keep in mind this is a work in progress and serves just for demo purposes, I no not really recommend using this as a resource for your own projects. But I do intend in to expand this to become an artist friendly toolkit for those who want to have realistic water scenes in their projects.
video of the shader in action:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkskiSza4p0
If you have any suggestions, comments, or technical issues running the blend, drop me a message in this thread in BlenderArtists forums:
The water shader is based on my own observations of water characteristics.
it features:
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reflection with accurate fresnel refectance model
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refraction with chromatic aberration
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projected caustics on geometry from the water surface based on normals
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seamless transition to underwater (no fake fog added)
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accurate water volume with light scattering
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view and light ray color extinction based on water color and sunlight
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simple coastline detection based on terrain`s height-map
does not yet feature:
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displaced water geometry
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underwater particles
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underwater light rays from caustics
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shoreline behaviors
Sky model is based on Preetham, but implementation is from Simon Wallner, with a significant (artistic) changes done by myself.
I have also included an overly exaggerated experimental glitter shader and a completely procedural "water droplets on lens" shader.
Comments:
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prof-2004
Edited June 25, 2013Really outstanding!
I get low fps rate but the look fells really real.
And that wet effect in the camera... just great!
Keep up the good work!
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Medoway
Written June 25, 2013Wooooooooooooooooooooooow! Was blown away by the video - good luck on getting such outstanding results with the final bits of this project as it is A* so far :)
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Scorpion451
Written August 05, 2013Cleans glasses, looks to see if renders still look that freaking awesome Yep. Wow. Thats all I can say, really. Can't wait to play around with this one!
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Scorpion451
Written August 05, 2013Follow up: I can't believe the framerate this is running at, steady at ~30fps on my reasonably high-end rig... If this is how clean it runs when the code is a mess, can't wait to see what you can crank it up to with some optimizing! Great work!
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matthewinglis
Written August 16, 2013WOW! This is truly incredible, amazing. This should absolutely make the staff picks. I know I would chose this if I were an could! :)
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rasteron
Written September 22, 2013I saw and tested the very first versions of this on BlenderArtist (link posted), amazing as always!
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idealtitude
Written October 20, 2013Thanks for the sharing!
It looks very very nice! But unfortunately i can't test it, though i've downloaded it, because i have an issue with glsl (don't really know from what it comes, probably a question of drivers (I'm under linux with the non proprietary nvidia driver)): all object that don't have an image texture do not receive light, and all of them are displayed black (in viewport as in game).
Anyway, thank you! :)
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JVisionary
Written November 06, 2013This is absolutely outstanding... you seem to be a pro a coding because the integration between python and C++ is perfect. :) Hope to be at your skill level someday!
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Clemens
Written August 01, 2014This is so beautiful. Even though there is nothing to do here I love to just walk around and enjoy the view. There was an age in URU that has that open atmosphere too.
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xpatrick
Written August 24, 2014Great Work! Performance is very good! Just walk or swim around and enjoy the beautiful weather :D
Muy grande. Thank you for sharing!
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huskybiscuit
Written September 12, 2015This is just PERFECT, i love it to be implemented into a kit for games! i have a AMD 8350 8-core CPU and a gtx-970 and it runs at no less then 60 fps!
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ssgachilles
Written October 12, 2015Ich kann nur sagen, das es echt klasse arbeit von dir ist. So ähnlich kann man es auch mit andere trick hinbekommen. Aber als programmierer sehr gut ausgearbeitet. hammer. spitze.
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miichael
Written November 16, 2015This looks great! Is it possible to use things made for the game engine in pre-rendered scenes? And have you managed to get a shore-line behaviour working? I would buy that!
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KarineNitzsche
Written September 05, 2023Quite authentic. Adding geometry dash bloodbath will definitely increase the 3D of the image.
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noblekeon
Written September 11, 2023Doesn't function; perhaps it's because the version is too dated. geometry dash
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bekean23
Written February 06, 2024The goal to expand it into an artist-friendly toolkit for creating realistic water subway surfers unblocked scenes is ambitious and could be a valuable resource for the Blender community.
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Michealjhon
Written November 22, 2024I have been absent for a while, but now I remember why I used to love this blog. Thanks , I’ll try and check back more frequently. How frequently you update your site? Crypto30x
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Michealjhon
Written November 22, 2024I have been absent for a while, but now I remember why I used to love this blog. Thanks , I’ll try and check back more frequently. How frequently you update your site? Crypto30x
Awesome work man, already looks amazing so far! Keep it up!