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I do like these two last UI ideas. The carbon fibre header is cool!

To be honest - I prefer the original. I think in terms of design, I think yours is worse. Aesthetically it is definitely neater, but your version has no focus. The original, while having some areas that don't quite line up, has almost a dual-column approach, where the most important options are on t...

Damn you're good! Am I missing something here? Is Poland the render capital of the world?

I don't pretend to be an expert with Kray by any means, but I don't recall seeing a single image here (or anywhere else for that matter) which uses the ceiling as light source successfully. This may be because I haven't realised how some scenes have been set up or I don't understand your suggestion ...

What about using the photon multplier (what Johny calls the "power shader") for the floor?

Undoubtedly! But it still doesn't help those of us who want to eliminate this sort of thing

This is exactly what I mean, but I don't think Johny would use 'bad' AA settings and actually the AA looks okay to me. I'm sure it's not moire patterns either because the splotches are irregular and don't follow a pattern. It just looks like there aren't as many samples in that area. As a render it ...

Awesome work again johny! But - in the first image, the grilles in the wall are distorted with noise/poor AA.

I have had this sort of thing before, and it doesn't look like moire patterns. How do you fix this? Spatial tolerance/angular tolerance/FG rays?

Also, the alpha map cars are too sharp, and need softening a little. Personally I would remove the vegetation from the balconies. They are too repetitive and this is a real giveaway in a render. There are 6 of these and they all look the same. If you can see more than 1 identical tree or shrub, you ...

Much better! Still a bit repetitive though. Needs more patchiness and flowers IMO.

Most importantly, there is a vertical tree right in the centre of the image, which composiotionally is a really bad thing to do

I have attached a photo of my grass to illustrate my point. I have made a seamless version (because I want to use it as a texture) which I won't post because you guys seem to prefer instanced grass

That's a really nice image and the grass is very good - but only because it has patchiness and variation. It is also a much smaller area, so it is easier to make it look good. It's not that realistic though. While typing, I am looking out of my window at the grass I cut earlier. It is patchy. there ...

I like the buildings, but for me, the background is too blurry, and the 2d trees don't look very good. The grass just looks wrong. I have a problem with this kind of grass - it is far too even and regular. In reality, most short grass is patchy. There are occasional flowers, weeds and stones. If the...

That will be really interesting - better than photoreal!

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