25-06-2011, 03:21 AM | #61 |
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I took your comments to heart, I'm still a noob when it comes to lighting.
My final setup is going to be something like this. Still needs a little work texturing, and I'm not sure what to do for the background yet.
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25-06-2011, 03:58 AM | #62 |
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Cool Render sandman300 ........... (Put Multiple Tracks In The BG With Some Tunnels And Play With DOF ) ..... Good Luck........
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25-06-2011, 10:00 PM | #63 |
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Got the track. And a bit better on the textures. I haven't used the DOF successfully yet so that might take a little bit of time.
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26-06-2011, 10:09 AM | #64 |
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Looking good. I'd crank down the reflection on the car paint and wheels/tyres a little though ... the reflection of the tiles looks more like rendering artifacts and detracts from the image a little...
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26-06-2011, 11:03 AM | #65 |
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Nice job, so far. Good luck on the DOF, i'm finding that most painstaking for my project.
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27-06-2011, 03:17 AM | #66 |
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I agree with Mark, you reflections are a bit strong. You might be able to keep the values you have now, if you add a micro bump to the material, that will blur/diffuse the reflection and give a more realistic look [without paying as high a price in render time as turning on reflection blurring would]. Double check the bump on your tiles, it looks like they might be inverted [could just be my eyes playing tricks]? Last crit, your black is very very black. I don't know what value you have it set at, but you might be better off if you raise it a little. For black I generally use something around R|G|B = 25|25|25.
Overall this is really coming along really well. You've improved the lighting a lot, it looks much better compared to your earlier renders. Keep it up, and this'll turn out excellent. |
27-06-2011, 01:29 PM | #67 |
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The lighting, I changed over to using HDRI, which I've never done before.
It seems to bring it's own set of difficulties. BTW when I use the DOF, test rendering at 50% resolution everything looks great, but changing the res to 100 makes the image darker. So I doubled the numbers and set it back to 50% so the numbers come back to what 100% should be - and that works - but the render time goes up to like 5 hours. Still I'm continuing to work at it.
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28-06-2011, 03:04 PM | #68 |
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I reworked all the textures, and decided to render out the foreground elements separately from the background. The DOF just wasn't fast enough for me. Then I used the DOF blur in Photo Plus. Thoughts?
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28-06-2011, 03:08 PM | #69 |
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Hi Sandman, Your Renders are getting better and better. Im just not overly keen on the black and white checkered floor. Maybe its just me, but a light grey instead of the Heavy black would help. The car is looking nice though.
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28-06-2011, 03:24 PM | #70 |
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It just so happens the black and white tile is what I have in my kitchen. LOL Sad but true. I'll think about changing it.
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28-06-2011, 03:27 PM | #71 |
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lol im sure ur kitchen looks very nice with black n white tiles I jus didnt want anything to take the focus off the kickass Car!
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28-06-2011, 07:51 PM | #73 |
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I think you've nailed the car in the latest render. The tiles are okay, but the blurred look helps a ton keeping the viewers' attention on the car. Great work.
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LOL sandman! you donthave a kitchen with that do you??? my wife would kill me if I had a floor like that..good work with the car mate..outstanding! I would tone down the reflection on the tiles maybe??
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No, really, My wife picked it out, I just installed it.
Anyway, I re-rendered the image to fix a few things. http://www.newtek.com/forums/attachm...7&d=1309306829 I think it might be done but I'm not sure. Edit: I tried it with the lighter tiles but it ended up gust looking washed out.
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