House n Garden

stefanq

Very nice Stu...vegetation it's simply amazing! Congratulations!

utiler

you been quiet Stu? Or have I missed something.....

Daniel

Outstanding images. The grass in the second image looks artificial (to me), but the rest of it is very realistic.

dylan

Really nice Stu.
I love the look of the grass in the first image. Is this a grass texture you used in SU?

Stu

Thanks Guys,
Andrew, yes, Ive been quiet

EarthMover

Awesome Stu! I've always admired your work. You have a real sense of balance in your designs. The boxwoods add so much to the overall flow. Great job.

Stu

Thanks Adam,
I think your stuff is great too!
You must try Podium 1.6!...I'm guessing that you running at least dual core, so you should see a distinct rendering time difference and the PNG, Tiff import without clips should interest you as well.
Stu

EarthMover

Thanks! I was just in the middle of downloading the beta. Can't wait to give it a go. I'm using a quad, so the multi thread should be a big improvement. The clipmap thing is a huge improvement too, IMO. I use a lot of imagecel stuff as well and trying to keep track of clipmaps is a pain. That's actually what I love most about Vue. It automatically clips out imported face me plants.

I wanted to ask you too, how do you make the boxwood hedgerows like that? Is it textured geometry? I'd love to see a SU output.

utiler

Cool Stu. And the water fountain? how did you do that?

Stu

Direct import from the warehouse

Stu

Adam, the Box Hedge is just smoothed, simple geometry with a small leafed texture which I bump fairly heavily in Podium.

And just a further note re. the Tiffs....the Podium guys are talking about PNGs only, but Im finding the Tiffs are working OK....remembering that each image can be 3-5Mb....the model of the first image rounded off at about 88Mb before it starting popping , but I have had some bugsplats pretty early with other models.

Stu

Another backyard....2.5 minute render in Podium

Backyard No.561C.jpg

utiler

cool stu... Maybe light up the patio a little though.....

EarthMover

Awesome Stu. Looks like a photo to me! The new Podium is amazingly fast!