WIP: My House

[Voxel]

I always said I would model my house and finally I got around to doing it. This is a huge WIP meaning don't expect much! The home is a two story cape-cod style house built around 50 years ago. Standard wood-framed construction. All illumination is from an ImageWorld with a blurred HDRI probe. Both Lightwave and FPrime failed me with this scene meaning KRay is the only I can render it without using thousands of lights in order to fake radiosity. I know it isn't anywhere as detailed or good as anything you guys make around here but I'm a programmer and not an artist so be gentle.

Jon

[silverlw]

Nice start. the top image would gain from using paths=1 to solve the lightleak.
Have you amplified the photons a bit to better light the insides of room?

[Voxel]

Nice start. the top image would gain from using paths=1 to solve the lightleak.

Thanks Silver! I set paths=1 and the light leak did indeed disappear.

Have you amplified the photons a bit to better light the insides of room?

Yes, in a sense. I output to HDR and decided to increase the f-stop for that image one whole step to lighten the room. Is there a way to adjust the f-stop of the camera continuously through-out an animation (to better represent how the human eyes work?) I would like to have something like the auto-shutter on a real digital camera that would try to keep each frame at a proper average brightness.

I wish I knew what the paths setting represents. I am actually a developer that used to be heavily into rendering algorithms but I stopped keeping up with all the new advances in technology since about 7 years ago. FPrime is simple for me to understand because Monte Carlo solutions are nothing new (even with the small optimizations to make it faster.) Lately, I have been trying to catch up with all the photo/light-mapping and irradiance caching techniques used to calculate physically-correct diffuse illumination in mentalray, vray, and kray.

Kray kicks ass, BTW.

Thanks for the community,
Jon