first house in octane

Tue Dec 13, 2011 5:14 pm

hello, well this is a project that i've designed couple of months ago, still i havent finished it but need your opinion.
thanks

kubo · Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:14 pm

hey manos, that looks great, just a minor complain, the grass on the second shot repeats too much a pattern, you should use a more random distribution of the cluster, besides that really good.

Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:29 pm

Thanks for your comment . I'm having difficulties with sketchup, it very hard to put textures on organic forms and also it's very slow. Would you think that it would be difficult to learn blender through the YouTube tutorial ? ( considering what I'm doing now with sketchup )
Thanks again.
Ps the images got ready really fast ( first it's direct lightning ,about 30 min and second it's pmc about 3 hours, although I don't see any major differences with pmc )

Tue Dec 13, 2011 7:31 pm

Sorry the first was pmc and the second was direct

kubo · Tue Dec 13, 2011 8:04 pm

for an exterior with a global light (sun or HDRI) I would use PT, PMC is better for difficult light situations (better meaning solving faster not looking better) Direct with the new diffuse option looks in most situations as good as pt and saves some time.
About blender, there is tons of info, start from introductory videos, to get a hang of the gui and the spirit of blender, once past that you'll see that is really friendly and easy to use. But at least for archviz I find SU faster, but using it along with blender is a great complement.

Wed Dec 14, 2011 1:03 am

Your drop plate on the first image is way off, its horizon must be much higher.

Wed Dec 14, 2011 8:04 am

i did not fix the grass

Wed Dec 14, 2011 10:14 am

Ps the images got ready really fast ( first it's direct lightning ,about 30 min and second it's pmc about 3 hours, although I don't see any major differences with pmc )

I see a *massive* difference between DL and pmc!!!

How did you add the glare effect in the latest pic? PS?

Also, i see a naughty grass alpha plane poking out of the tiled floor (bottom right zone of the 2nd picture).

Wed Dec 14, 2011 12:53 pm

Yes, a little editing with ps is always helpfull. Thanks for your coments.

Sat Dec 17, 2011 8:51 am

that lens flare looks really cheap, it might look better if you used 105 prime instead and put more effort into blending it properly...
actually theres lots of problems with that picture, sun is in wrong position compared to shadows its casting, if the sun is in frame, everything else should be much darker compared to sun, water is also pretty bad, you could have made a flat surface for the water and then used one of octane water materials to get ripples
fix all of that + the grass and it could be a good render