Thanks Paul, using the daylight environment + background image is working out nicely. I also found a slight compromise for the tile texture - adding a black and white gradient over the displacement map with each level of grey matched to a row of tiles seems create the illusion of stacking.
Cheers

Hi paul
Unfortunately even after recreating different maps I still can't get that stacking effect on the tiles - it displaces but it doesn't stack the tiles.

Also regarding the HDRI - even with maps and moving the Y coordinate we achieve no difference. I've also noticed that OCtane doesn't ...

Can't seem to get the tiles to stack with displacement The displacement map you are using doesn't seem to be an actual displacement map - looks most like a bump map - and will not give you the raised tiles look.

Another thing - I'm having alot of trouble lighting my scenes with HDR images. This ...

Hi again
Another thing - I'm having alot of trouble lighting my scenes with HDR images.

for example:

http://imageshack.com/a/img538/2316/MvrZiS.jpg

http://imageshack.com/a/img537/2927/Zcmfsy.jpg

I can never seem to get a direct light on the actual building
I'm still a bit of a novice in ...

Was also wondering how you can get entourage and trees to render?
Thanks again

face_off wrote:

Can't seem to get the tiles to stack with displacement

Can you post the displacement map you are using pls? It should work nicely for tiles.

Paul

Sure:





Thanks

Hi all
Was wondering if it's possible to create this kind of effect? Can't seem to get the tiles to stack with displacement



thanks

I wanted to know if it's possible to show light rays? As in almost as though there were a bit of dust in the air. Yes, this is sometimes referred to a God Rays. You can search the forum here for samples and instructions. For example, instructions for doing this in Modo are at http://render.otoy.com ...

Hello
I'm not sure how to best describe this but here goes:
I wanted to know if it's possible to show light rays? As in almost as though there were a bit of dust in the air.

Thanks

Impressive scene. The lighting is great!

If you look at the linear lights in the recessed ceiling areas you can see the aliasing. I believe that the solution for this is to 1) increase the Kernel->Filter Size - my guess is somewhere between 2 and 3, and if that drops the clarity of the rest of ...