Challenge #2 Gene Radvenis WIP #2

[Guest evrinc]

These are rendered using MAX5's Light Tracer Advanced Lighting renderer(GI)

Not as fast as the Advanced Lighting Radiosity but gives the images a rougher quality which I prefer.

 

about 30 mins per image on an Athlon 1.5

 

[nisus]

Hi gene,

 

Very nice images.

Only a small remark for now (I'm to tired to see well at the moment...): the stucco texture is a bit big and out of the box --> set value a bit lower and mix your bump map

 

rgds

 

nisus

[Guest evrinc]

Yeah, it's just a noise bump, but came out stronger than intended especially on the daytime view.

 

Any suggestions for an interesting mix?

 

Thanks

 

gene

[nisus]

some bigger flat fractal noise wit a small stucco mask and more heavy smaller regular noise to simulate flat strokes with little sandcrumps (don't know the english word) in the cracks?

 

btw... I like the lighting in the pool a lot... Not too much to comment on those images: so there great! Only a small remark: what is that very light cyan doing in the water to the left of the pool in the first image?

 

rgds

 

nisus

[Guest evrinc]

the water material has both ray trace reflection mapping and thin wall refraction mapping - without the refraction the water doesn't look like water, with it I get the cyan wiggle - It's picking up the color from somewhere - dunno where tho?

The sky is just a simple gradient map and there is nothing else cyan in the scene.

 

I don't mind it too much tho - it's kind of a conversation piece

[Guest saturnfive]

very tasty work indeed, I especially like the lighting of the night scene.

 

For the daylight image, how about adding a noise mask to the reflection slot to simulate the non-reflection of some dirt/dust on the floor tile surface?

 

For the night shot the pool really draws the eye, so needs to be extra good . How deep is it? I'd really like to be just able to see the tiles under water and perhaps some visible light sources under the surface too.

[FMstudio]

Your original post is years old now, but had to comment... it's a very tranquil design, is it your own or are you a consultant? Also I'm curious if what you used/currently use for your tree renderings (especially when there are LOTS of them) - stock 3D Max models? It doesn't seem to interact with the light as much as the other objects in the scene.

 

thanks for the eye candy...