i can make the water on the tea pot stand out. i make the bump level of the teapot 100. how can i make the effect on the teapot that looks like in pic2?

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A displacement map will make things stand out that are not modelled. But the trouble with this is tha displacement maps, like bump maps are based on image luminance, lighter areas stand out over darker ones, so a map that works will look different to the one you have. You could use PS to paint one based on the image you have, but I still don’t think it will look that realistic for water droplets.
To look real, it would be best to model the droplets and give them a water-like material. The quick way to do that would be with particles or scatter.

do particle or scatter look the same? i dont want all water droplet look the same. i want it to look like in the pic. each droplet are different shape.

I guess you have to search for a plug-in for that, such as glu 3d or real flow...but withought plugins, and every droplet has a different shape, this could be done by polygonal modelling, i dont know if there is any other way…

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You can make a few different shapes to use as particles in Pflow and make it randomly use the different shapes, scales and orientation.
Or like MK said, use some kind of meta-balls system, Blob Mesh is included in Max, but you can buy plugins for better ones, like Pwrapper.

Here are some examples of droplets made with Pflow. They both use Position Object to put them on the teapot. One uses Shape Instance for the mesh, the mesh is a squashed Geosphere with a Noise mod applied, the noise is animated and the shape instance has a Random Offset, so different particles show the noise at a different phase.
The other used the Pwrapper plugin to create the mesh.

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WOW, thats pretty sweet. we dont model each droplet, right? its like a hundred droplet on the teapot.

I forgot about the tutorial i did for this website...here check it out, it may fit your need :)

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Samab 16 October 2009 05:57 AM

Here are some examples of droplets made with Pflow. They both use Position Object to put them on the teapot. One uses Shape Instance for the mesh, the mesh is a squashed Geosphere with a Noise mod applied, the noise is animated and the shape instance has a Random Offset, so different particles show the noise at a different phase.
The other used the Pwrapper plugin to create the mesh.

Hi Samab, Can you tell me how did you setup the lightning for this scene, and what texture or material you used for the teapot...it looks nice!

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Hi Samab, Can you tell me how did you setup the lightning for this scene, and what texture or material you used for the teapot...it looks nice!

The lighting is just a skylight using a HDRI environmet, like in your tutorial so I don’t need to explain.
The tea pot is ProMat Ceramic with a gradient ramp in the diffuse colour.
To make the droplets show better I enabled AO and turned on the setting for exact AO, otherwise the droplets made a very dark shadow.
The water is A&D, I started with the Glass Physical preset, then changed the IOR to 1.333 and the Colour at max distance to a dark gray.

hey, what material did you use for that white teapot?