alfienoakes Posted November 28, 2007 Share Posted November 28, 2007 First post for a while. Switched over to Lele's method of using vraycolour material, and the .255 method for this, along with the Vraysun, sky and physical camera.. why not make things interesting..! I think it looks ok so far as a white model.. I am not sure about the sky.. just seems a bit too light. Any one with any other experiences of the above workflow, or the Vray physical bits that are revised in SP1 I would love to hear from. Also, as I have only been commenting on other peoples lately, feel free to give me some back.. (not much to crit yet, but at least i have posted something) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roest Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 ABout the sky, did you put the sky in an output map like lele described? I don't know about the physical bits in sp1 but sounds interesting (maybe you can tell me more? ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Tizard Posted November 29, 2007 Share Posted November 29, 2007 Hi Andy, The brightness of the sky will be determined by the height of the sun and your camera settings - what are you using? I've been using sun/sky and physical camera for a while, but not the .255 method. The sky is definately better in SP1 than before (was too dark). I find the images I get from Viz/max seem a little washed out, but once I've applied DaFaorce's "S" curve in Photoshop they look much better than I was getting with standard lights and camera. Trev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted November 29, 2007 Author Share Posted November 29, 2007 Jeroen, The sky is just straight into the environment slot. I was trying to keep it all as simple as possible. It is certainly lighter than previous versions. Just a bit too light as is. Trevor, Camera, almost straight out of the box. I am using a gamma correction of 2.2 in my colour mapping. Iso's 200, shutter 200 and 8 f'stops I think.. need to check. It seems to give the best balance. Are you using straight Vray colours / materials? Do you work in LWF as well.. I switched to that a while a go (still fine tuning) and it does work well. Of course a bit of post can liven things up a bit. I am interested to see what people are doing now that the camera and the sun/sky work nmore predictably together in SP1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paragsm Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 image is coming out good..!! can I ask u one thing who is lele, and what is .255 method where can i get refs. about his method. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Tizard Posted November 30, 2007 Share Posted November 30, 2007 Hi Andy, Yes, I use Vray mats exclusively and LWF with 2.2 gamma colour mapping. I do however use a more real world set up for my camera for exteriors. Google the "Sunny 16 rule" for more info. This is of course my personal preference. If you look on the Chaos forum you will see people using all sorts of different camera settings. I guess the great thing is there is no right or wrong settings, just what you prefer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted December 2, 2007 Share Posted December 2, 2007 looks good..would like to see it textured and completed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 Trevor.. Cheers for the Sunny 16 stuff.. makes a difference when you know how to use the software.. (well almost..!) Kippu, Hopefully, we should now get moving. Just sorted out some displacement grass I actually feel happy with as well.. systems are go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kippu Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 much better ..i was working on some bldg and read the sunny 16 , works great ...thanks for that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted December 3, 2007 Author Share Posted December 3, 2007 Good stuff Kippu.. Trevors the man for that one.. Also, I have reverted back to standard vray materials as well.. Nice and easy now.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trevor Tizard Posted December 3, 2007 Share Posted December 3, 2007 Looking forward to seeing the final image! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alfienoakes Posted December 9, 2007 Author Share Posted December 9, 2007 Been busy on all sorts, but here is an update. Hope to finish soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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