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[enricocerica]

Hi,

Here is another personal project, as the "Cloitre", this is quite a huge scene. Here is a first shot with HDR lighting, about 8h in 1440x800 on a i7, this new processor is really powerful with its 8 threads, I really enjoy it.

[CTZn]

And another personal success !

[Godzilla]

Wow.

To the Best of Indigo for sure.

[waz]

Awesome! You are the master of the textures

[zeitmeister]

To the Best of Indigo for sure.

+1

But the grass...

[enricocerica]

Thanks guys,

@zeitmeister:Indeed I wasn't very happy with the grass which is to regular, I'll try to play with heavy painting to get variation on particules size, I did it for the Cloire and the result was much better. I'll post the fixed version later on.

[psor]

Stop posting that crap Enrico, I can't stand it anymore!


j/k


I do enjoy seeing good texture work. Beautiful renderings going on there. Ya the gra ... what?





take care
psor

[enricocerica]

I've recalculated the grass part playing with the particule size to get some variation, imo it's better now.

@psor:I'm afraid I can't stop, you know it's just like when you have a new toy

[djegoo]

OH i had bet with my girl that you modeled the grass! i won!
The dirty textures are very impressive, i wish i could master texturing the way you do it! gonna work on it right now

[OnoSendai]

Nice render Enrico. Please upload to architecture gallery If you're finished.
One crit: Maybe try making the grass a phong material? It looks a bit flat/fuzzy without any specular highlights, as I'm guessing you're using a diffuse material currently.

[Zom-B]

lovely image!

I would change the color of the lamp in the room... looks way to grey+dark
Maybe a version with light on in the room colud be nice too!

[enricocerica]

Thanks for suggestions,

@Ono: I tried with phong shader and I got the same result, probably due to the hdr illumiation which is a winter flat sky.

@ZomB: Yep, I did it. I had to stop the rendering of a box corresponding to the half of the image after about 14h on my i7 and there were still a lot of noise, @Ono, any idea why combining hdr and mesh lights took so long ?

[OnoSendai]

Thanks for suggestions,

@Ono: I tried with phong shader and I got the same result, probably due to the hdr illumiation which is a winter flat sky.

@ZomB: Yep, I did it. I had to stop the rendering of a box corresponding to the half of the image after about 14h on my i7 and there were still a lot of noise, @Ono, any idea why combining hdr and mesh lights took so long ?

I'm not quite sure why, maybe more rays are getting allocated to the env map. try turning up the brightness on the mesh, and then turn down the layer gain afterwards.

[kwistenbiebel]

Again you make me jealous as hell.


I always love your texturing.
Any tips you could spill on good texturing that are general enough to be applied to all host apps?

Thanks for sharing this image. Lovely inspiration.

[enricocerica]

Again you make me jealous as hell.


I always love your texturing.
Any tips you could spill on good texturing that are general enough to be applied to all host apps?

Thanks for sharing this image. Lovely inspiration.

I always love your texturing.
Any tips you could spill on good texturing that are general enough to be applied to all host apps?

Thanks for sharing this image. Lovely inspiration.[/quote]

Well, it's hard to give good advise on texturing as there is no miracle, texturing is imo the harder part of the job as it requires a lot of work, first to get a nice UV mapping and second to prepare the texture maps. Usually I grab them on CGTextures site which really provides good base images. I always try to create bumb and spec maps based on them as the usage of those maps really make the difference, test and fix is then the only efficient workflow. I also try to avoid displacement for grass or carpets and prefer to play with bilboards and alpha based images like I did for the grass and the carpets on that one.