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I've been using Rhino3d and Brazil for yacht design and rendering and as the Boat Show season is drawing near I am trying to get a fresh new look for my clients. I'm really liking the control I have over environments, lighting and water textures and thought I'd post a couple of results here for constructive criticism. Be nice, please?

Having fun here swapping out backgrounds and HDRI's and getting lots of variations to this model. Will try some emitters in a night scene next, but my lights seem weak. Perhaps this is due to the scale at which I'm working.

These are pretty good.
The sails look a tad transparent though and perhaps the water is a little the same.
I think the girl needs a companion (helmsman?) visible somewhere.
Be nice if I could afford one of these

The latest sail materials are now mylar/kevlar composites and do tend to be nearly see through. We had a set with Technora (Carbon Fiber) tapes that were load mapped to the predicted load paths on a clear mylar substrate that we called the "Fredricks of Hollywood" sails! Yes, the girl needs a skipper, I'll see what I can do about that. She is a Poser figure and has more tex maps than the whole rest of the boat so I'm not sure if I have the overhead memory wise. Her mapping get scrambled quite often when I refresh a file, but I'm still getting the hang of Rhino exports. I'm hoping to lure SamPage out of the shadows with these renders. His first Rhino/Octane exporter was great, and he had mentioned getting close on an update, Sam?

can you show me the export settings from Rhino?
very nice render.

Thanks,

Here is a screenshot of my Rhino to Octane export settings. I usually model in feet, but if your using anything other that meters be sure to change the import mesh units to your units in the Octane preferences page. I still have to do some manual adjustments in Octane on materials, but it is not so bad if your rhino groups as OBJ groups button is selected. Hopefully Sam's export script will improve on all of this. I still have it, but I was using an older version of Octane and the script is 'pointed' at that and I'm not savy enough to re-direct it to the pre-2.3 that is currently out. Perhaps I'll uninstall and reinstall the his script and see if it can find the latest. Sam, if your reading this, I hope things have settled down for you and you can wrap up the latest script for pre-2.3. Thanks, Jody

Nice ambiance. I like a lot the third image with the sun light on the left.

Yes, very nice, try hotpixel to remove the fireflies.
http://www.foto-freeware.de/hotpixel.php

Cheers, mib

Thanks for the link to the hotpixel site, I've tried De-Fly but aren't too concerned about the FF's right now. I trust the dev team will have a fix for that soon. I'm going to try some motion blur in PS next and other techniques but still have a lot to learn about node editing materials. I'd like to add a name on the hull and seam line on the sails, there are so many possibilities... I appreciate everyones comments, Jody

thanks for the settings C3