Fancher Residence

[spyder2411]

Residential WIP of a set of plans I did a month back, things are slowing down so I figured I give this a shot in my spare time. Rendered in VRay free, seems alot faster than Mental Ray for some reason. C&C welcomed.

[mbr]

Isn't everything faster than MR??

 

Looks good, I'd tone down the skylight's blue a tad. Is this going to be shown with this view only? You could play with the directional light's intensity/skylight's intensity, but it looks fine to me.

Too far away to tell about textures, although the roof looks like it's tiling a tad, no biggy though.

 

Refelctions in the glass would be nice.

[spyder2411]

I'm pretty impressed with Vray, however I did learn quite a bit from MR about photons and GI.

 

As far as the skylight, I plan on editing that out easier to do at this point in PS as I'm fairly new with Vray. I plan on only doing a single view at this point as it's only a model study project for me.

 

The roof has given me problems from the get-go, this residence is over 5,000 sq. ft which is why the scale is so far away. Originally it had some nasty issues with the various pitches on the roof, but for the ease of modeling and a better overall look, I stuck with a 7:12 pitch all bearing @ the same elevation. It maybe the map that I created in PS for the asphalt shingles, but was based off a photo of one on my roof and scaled to be correct, roof shingles are the most difficult for me to pull off accurately on a rendering.

 

Any suggestions on a tutorial on post editing windows would be great if anyone happens to know of any. I prefer not to do them in Viz just cause the additional render time.

[jophus14]

I am also having a very hard time tiling shingles. I am currently using the free Vray download and reflections aren't possible with the free version....From what i understand

[spyder2411]

Update: As far the reflections go, I've always done it the hard way, in PS! Not a pro by any means, but it gets the point across without too much of a hassle.

[foxlee]

hi, looks good,like the grass.

Reflections work very well with Vray free. use the vraymap in the reflection slot, put specular of main material in mid greys and adjust subdivs ( anything under 50 will render faster) 15 will do even 5, in vraymap rollout.

Also have a map that gets reflected and make it darker for deeper reflection.

Your background, rather put a map on a plane and exclude from lights and shadow casting and put 100% selfillumination on that. that will stop it from getting blown out.

[Tim Saunders]

lighting looks great. deffinately one of the better residential renderings out there. my only crit is with the shingles as mentioned. there are two methods that have worked for me for getting the shingles right. if i have a pyramid type roof, if i select the whole thing, then apply the material with no uvw map, and just play with the tiling size, the shingles automatically allign with the plane they are on. not sure if that would work with each section on your roof. i usually do comercial type projects that don't have complex roof pitches. the other method that is garrenteed is to make a seperate plane for each slope or pitch and apply the material and uvw mapping seperately. the only thing you may have to do is make a copy of the material and rotate it 90 degrees on w angle. sometimes they will lay sideways for some reason.

good job!

[spyder2411]

rmaytree, I agree the roof pitches do create a bit of problems due to tiling, may be the death of me to figure out. I try to scale the maps full scale, since the roof is so massive, it's very difficult to prevent any scaling. The local architect in town harrased me about it once, I had to take a photo of one and show him that it does look like that after installation, one of my finer days (proving an architect wrong!) I've seen others do it, but you can definately tell that the shingles are like 3' tall individually which isn't a real world example. One thing to watch out for are the dimensional shingles, those look horrid on a large hip or gabled roof.

 

Thanks