Another modern house...

[madcoo]

Hi everyone !


Here's my latest.
I really tried to achieve photorealism, but didn't succeed...
I don't know how to get this "photo" feel and quality (especially with exteriors)...

- Pathtracing
- I used a HDRI env.map but couldn't achieve getting "sharp" shadows from the trees and objects around
-> so I put a plane far away up in the sky and assigned a powerful Emitter material to it. But the light doesn't look very natural
- I had to tweak the levels quite a lot in post-prod
- Trees are 2D images added in post-prod
- The car and some plants were not modelled by me (taken from the Sketchup Database)

I definitely can't get a natural nor realistic feel to it...
So please please please, any advice would be great for me...
Cheers!

[bepeg4d]

hi, i suggest you to use the daylight environment and place a big plane behind the scene with the texture beckground. If the sun is behind the camera the shadow of the big plane doen't interact with the scene and you have a perfect composition
ciao beppe

[madcoo]

Yep, the "backplate" technique...
I'm currently rendering another image using it, thanks.


I think I should also have bevelled some edges - it adds a lot to realism.
Will post some more updates!

Cheers!

[KaroBastardKiter]

- chamfer/bevel all edges
- use alphagrass, at least around the walls of the house (tone gamma so that it matches your texture)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2UOBRS0F - link by radiant
- if you don't use alphagrass, add 3d noise on your grassplate and put better grass texture, with bump/normal displacement too
http://www.ronenbekerman.com/category/freebies/page/2/
- bump the plaster with some noise bumpmap, looks too perfect
http://www.cgtextures.com/texview.php?i ... hua24bhaa3
- roof tiles: diffuse + specular mix
- add normal map to wood/stone wall
- car and chairs out of scale - too big
- garage door add glossyness
- i would add more chrome look to the balcony metals bits
- render with PMC since you have some glass surface?

Get ShaderMap for bumps and normal maps - best 20 USD ever spent.

ciao

[yoyoz]

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2UOBRS0F - link by radiant

You didn't read the news recently?

[KaroBastardKiter]

rite, oops
hehe

[madcoo]

Wow, so much advice, cool !!!


Many thanks for all this, Karo, I'll sure give all this a go !

[madcoo]

Just had a look at ShaderMap, looks damn quick and efficient !!!

[mbetke]

yes some more work on the foreground. even if its blurry due the DOF. some curbs at the borders. Otherwise its nice.

[madcoo]

Indeed you're right mbetke...
Cheers


...and thanks for saying it's nice