All Souls Temple (still contest WIP)

[kubo]

well I'm afraid "all the fish is sold" that we say around here, so, since I've got no more time to put into it cause unluckly (or luckly) I've got a job that's going to suck the life out of my this next 2 weeks, this will be the final images, you can follow the results in the contest post http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... 841#p23841 and leave all your comments here, I'll try to answer them.
Here is the final wip, lol gime more vram and I'll use it too

[mlody47]

remove the 3d guy and its a win for me

[GeorgoSK]

remove the 3d guy and its a win for me

Yeah, he's pretty ugly (as a model..no offence to you of coure! )

Otherwise great job. Can I ask how you did the outside "curtains" (can't come up with better term...lack of vocabulary...)

[kubo]

hahaahhaha, yeap it/me is pretty ugly I have to agree with both of you (and with my girlfriend too) but I've had no time to improve it (excuses, excuses) and I like having people in my shots to give human reference and didn't want to photoshop it or use anything but my own models. Besides I don't have time for the next 2 weeks, so I'm afraid that even thou I know it/me should be either improved or removed will have to wait till after the competition, when I might have time to improve the ugly dude and some things that still bother me, besides when 2.3 is out I want to try to do a night scene in it. The main goal was to have fun and I knew that my job would get in the way I just coudn't anticipate I would have such a load this month, but that's a good thing too, and I have to say that it's been great to show the whole process and have such great feedback and advice, I think I've learn a lot, so again thank you, and of course good luck in the competion, cause I know there is going to be (already are) really great quality entry and this community will grow as they see what Octane can offer even at this early stage.
Cheers

[kubo]

Sam75 has asked me how I did the grass, I used fry renders grass texture from their free repository (Andrian point it in one of his posts), and used a scatter of a plane with the textured mapped over the "grass" area.
In 3d max, make the plane, check the pivot point to make sure it's placed correctly, then create a scatter (in creation tab, compound object and scatter with the plane selected ) using the plane on a surface, I use area dispersion, then add as many instances as needed to fill the area, add a scale and rotation transform, and then you have to choose the camera so the "trick" is not shown .

[sam75]

thanks Kubo, where did you get the trees ?

[kubo]

you mean the ivy? here, I used this really cool free soft http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ importing the parts of my model in obj that I wanted ivy to grow in, and playing around with it, you can see grow ivy in your model in real time, lots of fun, If I could somehow combine the ivygenerator with octane and have real time growth and render at the same time I wouldn't see the light of day for weeks! also check the texture pack, with that you can even add translucent leaves in octane, and make the greatest ever ivy.

[sam75]

you mean the ivy? here, I used this really cool free soft http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ importing the parts of my model in obj that I wanted ivy to grow in, and playing around with it, you can see grow ivy in your model in real time, lots of fun, If I could somehow combine the ivygenerator with octane and have real time growth and render at the same time I wouldn't see the light of day for weeks! also check the texture pack, with that you can even add translucent leaves in octane, and make the greatest ever ivy.

no I already have ivy generator installed, I am talking about your trees

I tried to import some evermotion trees in octane but they have way too many polies so now I am looking for some good looking low poly trees collections

[kubo]

I haven't used any trees in this particular scene, I haven't tried evermotions, they are quite heavy it seems, I've used a few freebies but finally I got onyx broadleafs, which is the one I use most, but again, this is only for few trees, at least till we get instances, meanwhile I make really low poly trees with planes spawing (scatered and hand moved) as whole branches and leaves with alpha maps and 3 faced extruded splines as basic tree structure. They are a pain to tweak, but in those periods of inactivity (not much) I try to add stuff to my own repository. Andrian also mentioned a commercial brand in one of his last renders, and they look good, but I haven't had the time to check them out.