Yeah well it was worth a shot.

Thanks Guys, I'll check out those sources. I actually watched one "webinar" last night from the V-Ray site. It was quite cool. It was more towards using Photoshop after to enhance the render....well worth watching I must say. When I first started trying to render, I thought it was a process easier and quicker than what it actually is. I have put in quite a few hours in the last few days and NOW I realize that it is time like anything that you need to put in to get good at anything. The other important thing is that you should try to understand "why" you are using the settings the way you do to get the result you want. To just use input settings and numbers in the different fields because of a tutorial or manual will not help or speed up your learning curve. So, my advise to anyone new to rendering and or modeling is just be patient, ask questions and put the time in and practice. thanks for everyones help!!! Cheers, Jeff

hi, nice render..just add more light to it next time...try to bake the environment...u can do that by keeping backplate at same brightness and increasing environment brightness....its not the case that u will always get what you want from hdri light source...try different studio light setups to match up with the Backplate..have fun..!!

haha a trucking game?!! so can you murder prostitutes in it? http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/clarkson-murder-joke-complaints-top-500-991562.html

@solo said: Excellent responses guys, and I agree the top image just does not look right, I was not sure if the DOF was to strong or just wrong, to me it has a 'tilt shift' feel, just as you noticed David, it looks miniature. Just stumbled upon this discussion. At the risk of going taking it a touch off-topic, there's a dutch photographer that uses a technical camera and DOF to create this "miniature" effect with real-world objects on purpose. There's some nice examples of images from a building site here: http://www.martinluijendijk.nl/projecten/voortgang.htm Cheers.

Ha ha ha, I am glad you like it Here is a version without a crazy woman:-) I reduced the image size so it would fit to forum. [image: jebenicamala.jpg]

the road is actually just a texture that I imported from cgtextures.com. Nothing special at all. I think the blurred effect is a result of me stretching the texture so far in one direction so that the road did not appear "tiled" in that view. That combined, with the motion blur of the car are probably what is giving you that impression. Then I vaguely added some cracks in photoshop to give a bit more randomness to the road... they are fairly unoticeable though and you probably cant even notice them.

@andeciuala said: thanks solo... one mor question, where did you maped those textures and maps, sketcup or maxuel? Sketchup! Well, on some I worked a little, but in the end I did it...

"sketcuppers guide to the galaxy"? lol

awesome! quite a bit better than the Brooklyn Machine Works bike i posted on the warehouse earlier this year. Link to the file. It's under the 10mB size too! chris<pixelmonkey>:D

dang it well ill have to get everything made a compenonent i guess..to bring down from 34 mb

sweet, could be very photoreal. I agree about windows. Some PS vignette and gradients would add more depth and give it some punch.

Makes me nostalgic thinking back on uni days...

Another terracotta. Somehow more serious sculpture here, IMO. [image: mfCj_tanagreaApples.jpg]

Nice model, very fine details - this will not be hard to render (if you mean some PR rendering) as the first, most important step is always a good model. Looking forward to the progress!

thanks pete you are a very generous guy.

i was just trying to get some clarification...thats all i mean, who am i to talk.. 75% of my models are formfonts components

It is a really nice image, especially after sid added some post processing. The fog effect looks fantastic.

cool one day will do something different also with this sponza model.. now david is giant and goliath is small and it turns out shooting the tiger.

@stefanq said: WOW Nomer! Another "hit" from you! Excellent! Congrats! thanks again stefan..