Video: How to Add a Water Effect to a Landscape

Hi all,
This is a 45 minute video tutorial, which demonstrates my technique for adding and blending a real-time water effect on to a landscape model in Blender 3D. Like the other techniques I've shown you, it utilizes Blender's Node Editor.

You will learn:

- How to append an existing Blender file,

- How to paint a shore-line,

- How to paint transparency on to the 3D model.

This is an advanced method, which requires some prior knowledge of Blender's User Interface.

Hope it's useful to someone out there.

Patrick

How to Add Water to a Landscape from Patrick Mount on Vimeo.

Also available (with annotations) at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Wormwood1968

Video: How to paint with Blender's Node Editor

Hi again,
This video tutorial demonstrates a method of painting multiple textures on to a 3D Mesh, using Blender's Node Editor. It is an advanced technique and requires some prior knowledge of Blender's User Interface.

Sorry about the length of this video. It wouldn't really work if I'd split it into smaller segments - you might miss some critical stage in the work-flow.

Don't get discouraged if it seems baffling at first. It took me a long time to figure this method out. Just play the video through a couple of times and try to follow it.

I am using the stable version of Blender 2.49.

How to paint with Blender's Node Editor from Patrick Mount on Vimeo.

Also available (with annotations) at: http://www.youtube.com/user/Wormwood1968

You can download the finished landscape here:
PaintedLandscape.zip

System Requirements

• Blender 2.49b
• Python 2.6.2 or higher
• Graphics Card support for OpenGL + GLSL Shader Model