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[davido]

Hi guys

This is my first attemt to write shaders in houdini, so tell me what you guys think


This is my ice shader, had little bit of fun comping it too



Rock shader



and the ocean shader, i was pretty proud of myself when i finished this one, the shader puts white-water (foam if you will) when the geometry reaches a certain height.

[sum][one]

nice.. i like the rock shader the most.

would you mind to share vop network for 'em?

cheers.

[davido]

sum][one, on May 14 2006, 01:42 PM, said:

nice.. i like the rock shader the most.

would you mind to share vop network for 'em?

cheers.

Thanks man, yeah the rock shader is by far the "cleanest" one

here is a hip file with all three of them

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[altbighead]

very nice for the first timer.Keep them coming .

[sum][one]

davido, on May 14 2006, 11:53 PM, said:

Thanks man, yeah the rock shader is by far the "cleanest" one

here is a hip file with all three of them

thanks a lot I always love to see other people jobs.. i learn a lot from 'em.

thanks for sharing.
cheers.

[LEO-oo-]

Good job - I like the Rock Shader!

[davido]

Thanks alot guys, it is nice to know you like it.
If anybody has a different way of making similar shaders or even a different/better way of setting up the network then it would be really cool too see.
Like sum][one saidand i agree

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I always love to see other people jobs.. i learn a lot from 'em.

[davido]

Modified the ice shader to include refractions, by doing that i was able to get the deep
spec to give it a sense of thickness and also those deep blue color you tend to get when ice gets old and dense.

Comments and crits welcome

[Overload]

hey davido... looks real nice, but I think it looks more like water than Ice?  either way nice job

[michael]

wow...that's really nice ice...
I think it looks a bit like water because of the waves
I'll bet on a grid it will look great....or on a bunny

[davido]

Thanks guys, yeah there is a fine line between ice and water and i guess it depends greatly on the geometry it is on, but i tried rendering it on a flat grid and here it is



and oh yeah, the bunny will freeze for sure

[Overload]

yea that looks alot more like ice now without the wavieness .  just out of curiosity, are they teaching VEX at VFS now?  Here at SCAD we have Houdini courses, but no real classes on VEX only renderman, which i guess will help out with VEX.  Nice work man, i like it.