"Tek" <tek### [at] evilsuperbraincom> wrote in message 
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> 4/ water material - a physically correct water is simply: pigment{rgbt 
> 1}finish{reflection{0,1 fresnel}}interior{ior 1.33 fade_colour ... 
> fade_power 2 fade_distance ...}, there's a lot of tweaks you can do but 
> that should get you something good. Basically it's transparent, 
> refractive, the reflections obey fresnel so there's no need to tweak them, 
> and if you want to colour it you should use fade_colour not pigment 
> because the colour should be throughout the material not just at the 
> surface.

Doh! and of course use conserve_energy in reflections, that's vital!

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Tek
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