Amenity Center WIP

[Allen]

Almost done with this one...but not quite...

 

Using HD Instance from Happy Digital. All the plants are 3d. Using Monte Carlo with one bounce.

[vertexART]

hi there,

looks good, a bit grainy but it's still wip.

cam position is a bit odd though, especially on the 2nd one. U can't see the building and sky is taking more than 60% of the image.

just my 2cents

[Allen]

Thanks for the input, Dejan. The second camera angle is only being used to show the client the details of the island.

[JamesTaylor]

all the plants are 3d, does this include the trees? i can see on of the trees in the foreground consists of just square polygons and i presume that this is still the case for the trees in the distance? can you give us some info on the render times achieved with this method, and if you got the trees from somewhere on the web, where?

 

James

[Allen]

James.

 

Everything is 3D in my scene. The reason I've resorted to this is because my client in this case always wants an aerial map view of the site along with elevation view...so I can use the same scene for all the renderings.

 

Trees are modeled in Onyx Tree Professional (http://www.onyxtree.com). Great program - I highly recommend it for Lightwave users although there are other options out there for good tree creation (tree designer being one).

 

The leaves are UV mapped and I've got the ability to add a transparency map to cut the leaf shapes out...but the render time increases quite a lot when I do that, so for early tests or shots that are a good distance from the trees I don't apply the transparency maps to the tree leaves.

 

Render times are about 3 minutes for a 300x200 with no anti-aliasing. About 15 minutes at 800x600 and 3 PLD passes.

 

Thanks for replying.

[Allen]

Updated image. Added background trees and landscape, some detail around the pool area, a bicycle rack, and other sundry items.

[bjornkn]

Have you tried applying the transparency map as a clip map instead? It is usually much faster. For some odd reason this has to be done in Layout, because it's an object property instead of surface. Which means that you cannot make a reusable library of trees without having to manually "move" the alpha map from the surface setting to the object properties.

I really hope this will change in LW9...

[Allen]

Have you tried applying the transparency map as a clip map instead? It is usually much faster. For some odd reason this has to be done in Layout, because it's an object property instead of surface. Which means that you cannot make a reusable library of trees without having to manually "move" the alpha map from the surface setting to the object properties.

I really hope this will change in LW9...

 

Thank you so much for mentioning that...you're right, the clip maps work great. To use them with HDInstance I had to:

Clone the point layer.

Put the leaves on the tree model on another layer

Then change the point layer to instance the leaves object.

 

Clips work great now without a big increase in render times.

 

Appreciate the help. Thank you again.

[Allen]

Ok...added another layer of grass controlled by a grayscale alpha map so that the grass near the amenity center is more lush than the undeveloped area. Also painted a mowing pattern in the green grass section.

 

Think I'm pretty much done now...

 

We'll see what the client says though.

[Megalodon]

Have you tried applying the transparency map as a clip map instead? It is usually much faster. For some odd reason this has to be done in Layout, because it's an object property instead of surface. Which means that you cannot make a reusable library of trees without having to manually "move" the alpha map from the surface setting to the object properties.

I really hope this will change in LW9...

 

This is true, but... you can save individual scene files of the trees w/clipmap settings and just load from scene. This works great and all you have to do in Layout is position the tree.

 

And YES, I hope they change this for LW9!

 

Megalodon

[Allen]

Actually to address this, I put my "leaves" on another layer in modeler. This way I could use the UV map of the transparency as a clip map for the leaves without it affecting the limbs. Very easy fix...just didn't think of it earlier.

 

The reason I couldn't use the UV map as the clip map is that it was clipping the wood part of the model...weird, I know.

 

BTW, I found a great trick on the Lightwave site for getting HD Instance to render with the first pass of the render...Place a 100% transparent polygon in front of the camera. The only problem with this is that it wont save the alpha information in files like PSD32 TIFF32 or TGA32, etc. If you're not compositing a sky in photoshop afterwards - this is a great option.

[Charles Gaushell]

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