Reflective water variations

If your reflective water looks too light or “flat” ...

Swap the Front:Side maps:

Add a Fresnel Falloff map:

You can even swap Raytrace and falloff again to vary the results:

You can change the body mass and highlight colors of the water within this last falloff [shown inside map #8 in the sample]

The bump

Here we are changing the phase of the bump from 1 to 0:

Important! We also have a falloff inside the Smoke, in the lower slot:

It cuts out a lot of excessive reflections in the bump. If you want shinier water, take it back out:

Reflection dimming

Don’t forget you can go to the extended parameters at the root level of your water map, and continue to finesse the watery reflections.

Rendering smoothness

Supersample to smooth out problem jaggies: