BLENDERTON HOTEL - LONDON

[kubo]

really nice work Roubal, lot's of detail, and nice comp. I love it, it sure feels like London. Also, for the rain you can use the texture I used for the past competition or even the original source which is in the thread http://www.refractivesoftware.com/forum ... iny#p45605 that could do for the puddles and with a mix material you can create the dry areas, and add that texture with different power on a difusse and an specular material to achieve that "wet" look.
Really good one mate!

[ROUBAL]

Hello Kubo ! Thanks for the comments and for the link. Your car under the rain was one of my preferred images in the competition.

I will try some other methods that I have in mind, using my own texture generator fort the ripples (The rain maker : You will find it on my site), and I will create the falling droplets and droplets on the cars as well in to Blender.

I created this video test in Blender with it :

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/12857911[/vimeo]

The blend file is available on the link on Vimeo.

I can't access to my site at this time to find the tutorial link, because my host provider seems to have its server down at this time... it occurs for maintenance sometimes on friday night and should work again tomorrow I think.

But before making this wet scene, I have to render in higher resolution.

If you look at my post about RAM amount to manage VRAM, you will see that I have discovered that the Octane 1.0247 TEST x64 Cuda4.0 solves the problem of black screen with low VRAM memory amount used, and also allows to render separately and simultaneously on (at least) two GPUs, by launching two instances of Octane with different GPU enabled !

With this version, and using 2 instances of Octane, I can use my two GPUs at the same time (with my 3GB VRAM used at best despite only 8GB of RAM), to render either two different images at different resolution, or two parts of the same image using lens shifting !

So, If everything goes well, I should finally be able to render these posters in 8192x4096 and even more !

[kubo]

not only that test looks great but the news about being able to use both gpus simultaniously is awesome, I'll give it a try, thanks mate

[ROUBAL]

VERY BAD NEWS : You may have noticed that all linked images have disappeared.

The reason why is that my web host provider has some HDD failures and my website is down for already 3 days.

I have just looked at my FTP server, and all directories are empty !

I hope that they have my data saved somewhere else in a RAID, or a distant site, because I had around 10GB of data, images, videos and blend files on this server, and with my low upload bitrate, it would require several weeks of constant work to restore my site from my side!

As this site is my only showcase, I'm very worried for my business...

I cross my fingers...

[kubo]

me too mate, that's really bad news, I do hope they get to restore it, and just in case if you need help breaking their kneecaps, let me know.

[ROUBAL]

Well, I have got the confirmation that all hosted data have been lost and can't be recovered.

I am uploading already for 7 hours and at least the front page, the thumbnails and the images directory are partially restored, but the downloadable videos in 5 differents formats, and the assets for visitors like tutorials and blend files will take much more time as there are still more than 6 GB to upload, and I can't do it full day.

It is the second time they crash the site completely... but as there is no hoster in France allowing high monthly bandwidth and huge hosting space, and also even for smaller space they are much more expensive, so I can't move...

As I have an old Bronze plan that can still be renewed, but that no more exist for new customers, I think that they prefer to sell the new unique and much more expensive plan and don't care much of old clients with "obsolete" and less expensive accounts.

This said, I have no warranty that this wouldn't occur with a "pro" plan...

[kubo]

I'm really sorry, that's totally unfair and unprofesional from their side not to have some type of backup to assure you this won't happen again. As you said there are many companys that worry most about getting new customers and couldn't care less about existing ones, which is the wrong policy in my opinion, 'cause I'm sure that if anyone asks you, you won't "cheerfully" recomend their services, and hence they are loosing potencial clients.

[ROUBAL]

Hello ! I'm again on my project after a long time in hardware tinkering on my machines.

Here is a new image of my the Rolls Royce Phantom V of 1966 in front of the Blenderton Hotel.

When I say "my Rolls Royce", I mean my model... It is allowed to dream !

Rendered in Octane 1.0249b Pathtracing in 8192x4096, around 2000 s/px, reduced to 1280x640.

More images later...

[face]

The render is perfect, too perfect.
Also it looks for me a little bit too dark and too blueish.

I have played a little bit with te image, sorry
Have added a little noise and a blured overlay layer, also i have color-corrected it a little...
Hope you can forgive me..

face

[radiant]

Spot on with the color correction