Raindrops on Bottle

[yiwanheyi-yiwanheyi]

I have ggot an problem. how is it possible to make raindrops on an beerbottle. moddeling techniques in softimae|3d.

[john-neumann]

im sorry i cant tell you - but it would be cool to know! when you find out can you let me know

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[atyss]

Just throwing an idea: You could try using low res metaclays?

Salutations - Cheers
Bernard Lebel

[juan-sanchez]

I'd try a combination of a displacement map, an image map & a transparency map on a high res copy of the bottle's geometry ontop of the actual bottle.

The dis. map to define the beads of water, the image map to give the general colour/ambience of the beads, the transp. map to hide the areas between the beads.

[fredc]

To add to other suggestions, you might try:

1. Duplicate/Dupliator. This will take a single object and place any number of copies normal to a surface or mesh. You can randomize position, size, and orientation to give subtle differences to each drop.

2. You could make a bunch of drops on a flat plane (perhaps using Duplicator in suggestion 1). Merge them with Effect/Merge, then use a surface deform to get them on the bottle. This method will allow you to translate the drops down the sides of the bottle.

Just some thougths.
Urp