Seeing a scene out the window

[Carrotious]

I wan't to show a city scene out of an office window. (like in the attached jpg).

 

What's the best way of going about this. Do i set up an image on a plane outside or do i work with the envirnoment.

 

Thanks for any advice,

 

Giles

[ecastillor]

I would add it later in photoshop...

[ipdesigner]

*i go for the environment

[Carrotious]

Photoshop seems like a hassel. Surely then when i show it to the client and he wants a differnet angle or something i just have to start over again.

 

With the environment is it just a mater of putting it in as a map? An then will i get reflections?

 

So many questions...

 

Thanks

 

G

[jvlive]

yup. just place an outdoor scene as your environment map and it will be reflected in the proper objects. not so accurate, but its a quick solution.

[vertexART]

Also, don't forget to check your camera horizon and match it with the background.

Cheers

[Ras]

Hi

 

The problem with adding the background later in PS is that you will not be able to render out the alphachannel if you are using glass with a refraction index other than 1. This is because the light and view of the background is actually distorted in the glass and thus it will not produce a black area in the alpa channel.

 

Of course if you work with basic transparency it will be fine. You could also turn off the glass and render out a quick copy to use only for the alpha channel in Post production. But it might be wierd trying to comp an image with glass with a background using this alpha channel because the edges of the transparent area might look wierd against the bacground - but hey - nothing a little PS work wont do...

[Carrotious]

Thanks yall,

 

Julius, when u say its a quick solution, are u saying there is a longer but better solution out there that u might like to share with me??

 

Cheers

[jvlive]

the longer solution is to model whats outside... not practical but i'm pretty sure (more like suspecting) there will be situations when you need to.