Another exterior

[phile_forum]

Everyone's doing it, so here's my go so far.

I think it lacks a bit of visual "pop" so I might do some more work on the textures.

Spot light + sunsky. 4 bounces.

Comments, suggestions for improvement etc welcome.

Phil

[larry_g1s]

Hey looks good Phile, solid lighting, nice shadows (not too dark). I agree on the textures, those need a bit of work to really take advantage of the lighting. Nice work.

P.S. if everyone jumped off a bridge would you do that to? lol

[Pheidian]

Great stuff!

I see a lot of new users coming up with great renders, it's nice to see people are learning fast!

mind sharing some rendertime / cpu info as well?

[phile_forum]

Thanks for the comments.

Render time is 10 min on a 2.4GHz Q6600 (quad core). Most of that is down to anti-aliasing the polygonal plants I put in front of the buildings. If I'd used 2D plants, render time would have been just a couple of minutes.

Phil

[geo_n]

very nice lighting and rendering. I like the building too. How did you make that grass on the foreground? When I texture grass kray blurs it too much when doing aa. Is it possible to control a surface or objects AA in kray?

[phile_forum]

How did you make that grass on the foreground?

Nothing special about it. Just a flat plane with a texture map (from ambientlight). Anti-aliasing settings for Kray are Low, Quasi-random, 0.01,10,50, Nitchell.

Phil

[khan973_forum]

Hello and welcome!

It's a very good start!
The only thing is the lights, you could add some IES to get better light effects and more realism.
Check Denis Pontonnier IES node.

peace

[nico]

i have use your setup in my render but isn't good...
have you play with sunsky parameter?

the lighting is very good!!

[darickster]

its a great start, throw in some dirt on the pavement and siding for realism (maybe in post), its too clean at the moment.

good work!

[phile_forum]

i have use your setup in my render but isn't good...
have you play with sunsky parameter?

Turbidity 4, horizon brightness 0.5 - all other settings default. Sun is a spot light 1km distant with inverse square falloff & a range of 1km. Set the colour to a warm yellow/orange. The blue from the sunsky should correct this and yield white-ish light.

You may have to experiment to get the relative intensities of your sun light and the sunsky background right. After that, you should spend time tweaking the textures.

Phil