Good afternoon. Does anyone have a good setup for pool water? My water material doesn’t look good, and when I render it, it comes out looking very artificial. It doesn’t even have a proper water color.
Hello! Working with water material it’s mostly about the reflections. Do you have a sky texture? That way, the pool won’t just reflect a plain white sky, but something more realistic.
Also, I always try to make the material for the inside of the pool a bit darker and add some kind of pattern—like tiles, for example (anything that’s under the water).
As for the settings, I usually adjust them based on the scene, but here’s an example:
