innerdream Posted October 3, 2008 Share Posted October 3, 2008 Thought I would practice with this 3D Allusions challenge scene. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAllusionisst Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 Looking good, the lighting and shadows could be softened IMHO The interior portion of the current modern house challenge going. At least when you work on the current challenge you have a chance and winning some prizes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerdream Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 Looking good, the lighting and shadows could be softened IMHO The interior portion of the current modern house challenge going. At least when you work on the current challenge you have a chance and winning some prizes! LOL! Don't I win a prize for this? Unfortunately I can't soften the shadows in my software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheAllusionisst Posted October 4, 2008 Share Posted October 4, 2008 LOL! Don't I win a prize for this? Well since that challenge is over and the image is posted on a completely different site........ Unfortunately I can't award you a prize with my software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerdream Posted October 4, 2008 Author Share Posted October 4, 2008 Well since that challenge is over and the image is posted on a completely different site........ Unfortunately I can't award you a prize with my software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentegviz Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 Unfortunately I can't soften the shadows in my software. what software are you using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerdream Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 what software are you using? Cheetah 3D. It does have a "color" for the shadows so I suppose I could set that to gray instead of black? Otherwise it does not have a soft shadow setting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentegviz Posted October 7, 2008 Share Posted October 7, 2008 i had actually never heard of cheetah 3d until i just looked it up. there are some images in the gallery that have soft shadows, so i'm wondering if you can render things in passes and use some post production magic to get that nice edge people on here love. it's not necessarily the color, it's that the edge of the shadow doesn't have that nice density, the harsh shadow where the object would meet the ground or the table to the very subtle shadow as the light creeps over the edge. i'd check out http://www.cheetah3d.de/forum/showthread.php?t=3284 maybe that will help get that softer shadow edge. i'm kind of wow'd that people can get that kind of image from a piece of $149 software. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
innerdream Posted October 7, 2008 Author Share Posted October 7, 2008 (edited) i had actually never heard of cheetah 3d until i just looked it up. there are some images in the gallery that have soft shadows, so i'm wondering if you can render things in passes and use some post production magic to get that nice edge people on here love. it's not necessarily the color, it's that the edge of the shadow doesn't have that nice density, the harsh shadow where the object would meet the ground or the table to the very subtle shadow as the light creeps over the edge. i'd check out http://www.cheetah3d.de/forum/showthread.php?t=3284 maybe that will help get that softer shadow edge. i'm kind of wow'd that people can get that kind of image from a piece of $149 software. You can't render a shadow pass which is a problem. Also, the soft shadows in that thread are not applicable to this type of set up. Anyhow, as I mentioned the solution might just be to change the shadow color. By the way this image took 15 hours on a Macbook 1.83 2 GB ram. The only other thing i could try is to float a big area light over the entire room to defuse the shadows a bit. That would blow the render time sky high though. If you look to the right in my image that is lit by an area light which has softer shadows than the spot lights on the left. In terms of a package Cheetah offers a lot of bang for the buck but you have to work "really" hard to get good images in Archviz style. It's more of a Gamers package I think. Edited October 7, 2008 by innerdream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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