Geoff Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Hello, This is my first 'proper job' with vray About 14 hours to render 1500x1200 original on a P4 3.0 1Gb ram final image needs to twice that resolution. Loads of tweaking needed me-thinks! C&C's welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voltaire_ira Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 wow, this is really really good, i don't care much of the rendertime but its well woth the wait. you can't rush art! but if this is on a tight deadline, then tweaking is much needed esp. he final render will be much bigger. stairs is too centered for my taste. but, its your render so its just a personal preference. great work on your textures esp. the floor, chrome and the glass!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IC Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 I take it it's the stair that you're designing/visualising and nothing else? In that case, the viewing angle is fine and the render quality is superb. Start it running now and get on with something else for a couple of days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 We design and build staircases so yes that is the focal point. It has been said that the image is austere on the vray forum. I want to try and improve the image as it going in a book/magazine that the company is producing (It will go alongside photographs) So I will try panning the camera around and stick in some modern reception lounge type furniture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhinks Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Like it a lot. Good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bhanu Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Wow...nice rendering....I waiting Vray... Our IT guy processing the order... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Very nice render!...keep up the good work! Is Vray difficult to learn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 Thanks for the encourgement I had a go final render, brazil and vray about a year or 2 ago To me vray is the easiest to use with almost instantly good results. I followed some good tutorials and copied settings and tweaked to suit my scenes. The forum is excellent to btw. Lots of materials on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Very nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny English Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Geoff, are the Vray tutorials online? if so can you pass on the links, would like to have a go myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 31, 2005 Author Share Posted January 31, 2005 This website is excellent for vray http://www.vray.info/links.asp?categoryID=3 These are the 2 most useful tutorials from the list http://www.vrayrender.com/stuff/PMapTutorial/ http://www.osmosis.com.au/info/tutorials.htm most of my settings are from the first tutorial with lighting setup as the second one. Search the forum for materials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 2, 2005 Author Share Posted February 2, 2005 re-lit and tweaked settings. 7 hours to render at 1500x1125 Blinds are a bit buggered. Have now corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasheet Siddiqui Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 you have mastered it,as close to real as it gets. Care to share which software you modeled,specially those helical handrails,I don't think autocad can extrude along a helical path,does it? smooth modeling I must say....perfect!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 Nasheet, all modelled in viz. My primary job is a draughtman so all 2d elements drawn in microstation (treads etc.) I'm much faster at 2d stuff in microstation. Viz doesn't have an intersect snap for a start!!! Handrails are just helix splines in the create lines toolbar. As this helix will be quite 'steppy', I have then added an optimise spline modifer (by Dieter Morgenroth) to smooth it out. I then just make them renderable splines. Ball end at bottom of handrail is a sphere snapped to the end of the handrail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mhinks Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Looks really nice. The chrome centre column looks a little aliased maybe, or it might just be the material. Any chance of some screen grabs, to give us an idea of the model densities, and lighting setup? Congrates again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nasheet Siddiqui Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Microstaion,well I simply don't like it,its "macro"station to me,may be I don't know about it properly.....I do all the modelling in Acad is microstation good for 3D modelling??? Anyways I also use a lisp file to make helix in acad ,you have to smooth it out in max or viz,you are right.... http://www.ingersollconsulting.com/Helix.lsp Some instruction on advanced 3D modeling can be found here: http://www.ingersollconsulting.com/Advanced%203D%20Solids%20PPT.pdf nice work,will use your staircases somewhere me thinks he he,nice designs,do you have more staircase designs,links please... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Nice tweaks, but imho the side glass seen from the front is hardly invisible... Too invisible imho, some reflections needed or so?? or a bit less invisible?? How long did the modelling and lichting setup took you? rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 mhinks: The stainless steel material was not supposed to be grainy. Had a slight bumpmap in there for some reason! Screen grab attached for you. Been mucking about with various lighting techniques. Used one that involves 2 area lights in front of each other and all environment turned off. Found the technique in vray forum by some russian chap called Alex Knost. nasheet: I only use microstation for 2d stuff. All 3d done viz. Microstation is ok, each to their own and all that. Thanks for the modelling tips. Might look at it when I foget how to model a helix! This design is copyrighted to the company I work for. Please don't copy. We do work abroad. I can give the link the web-site but that could be viewed as advertising. Just type in spiral stairs in google. Nisus: A day to model the stair, another for the building. (1 day = 7 hours) Been tweaking the lighting in the background at work. About a week or so, 1-2 hours a day (I have only had vray for a month or so....) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt M Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 rendering and modelling look great, composition seems week. chairs helped. how about more? seems cold, no humans. How about a babe? Sell it with sex ? a nice looking image prop coming down those beautiful stairs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kulbir bal Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 a dream for me to render like this........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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