Some new Renders..

darcemac

Amazing and inspiring renders!!!
Yourself and Freeagent are setting the benchmark higher every time!
I always use yours and freeagent's images as a reference when tying
to do my exterior shots

Silly question but how does sketchup handle such a large model with textures?

silver_shadow

Hi there, thanx, not too many textures were used creating these renders. To be honest sketchup can take a nice punch on poly, but do suffer on the texture side and makes it really slow as your model gets bigger. The first model, with the weird columns were giving problems on the rendering side so i got more ram for my 32 bit machine, and it held up ok for the renderings. I do not have that powerful machine at the office neither at home, (office = quad core with 4 gig ram 32 bit windows. Home 3.4 core due pro with 2 gig ram) But there is always a fear...is this model too big, will it render, what if it does not render, what do i change. I usually go back to my textures and export them to a file, and then check for abnormal size and dimension, and change that first and try again till it do render.

darcemac

Hi Silvershadow,

Thanks for the quick reply, one more silly question;
what would you consider too large for a texture or
what is your average size?

also did you happen to do the rendering for a winery project
in Sommerset West called False Bay Vineyards?

silver_shadow

No sorry didn't do that project
I usually use 1250x1250 as a max size texture, if my textures give problems to render
Vray can manage bigger textures...but sometimes do run into trouble when the model gets bigger. So id say 1250x1250 is probably quite safe

trillium

hi silver shadow, thank you so so much for all your great inspiring works! i just stumbled upon your eye candy posts(WOW!!!!) and then this one!! not sure if you are still check this post but i have a question for you- how did you do the cascade water feature in the first project? thank you so much again for all your previous tutorials. i just started SU and i'm already so inspired by people like you!!!!!!!!

bahri

wow very good job
its pleasure to ur work...
should i call U Mr.Perfecto

remon_v

I'm trying to get a nice reed texture like yours in the model, so I downloaded it from cgtextures. here's a quick try

trillium

hi silvershadow, thank you sooo much for all your amazing works and great tutorials on so many of your threads!!! i wonder if you could share with us some tips on how you did the forground sandy beach and background images in photoshop. they look so seamless!!! i felt the same when i saw freeagent's bush lodge with the dry grassland foreground. you guys inspire me to learn more about post processing! thanks again!

silver_shadow

thanx, sorry for the missing images. (Stupid photo bucket errors)
The thing i sometimes do and usually work well is say for the sand or grass, render your model with a flat color, like sandish for sand or greenish for grass. Then in photoshop drop a image over that grass or sand, and say it should be overlay or any of those that suit your needs. and use an eraser to control areas.

trillium

thank u !!

chango70

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pibuz

that's true....

I WANNA SEE THEM!!!!!

EscapeArtist

@chango70 said:

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silver_shadow

fixed

chocolate_fou

these are really cool renders.great work silver shadow..by the way, i'm new here.just admiring your works.i hope someday i could also do stuffs the way you do. keep it up!!!

silver_shadow

sorry for the issues on photobucket

arjun_samar

hi sir, im just new to su just download it yesterday and v-ray,, your renders are superb!!!!

did you model the 3d trees? and 3dcars? in my guess, i those are the most hardest thing to model...

thanks in advance...

torring

Nice dude, very inspiring works..... thanks for sharing.

rose

Hi,I am new to this Community.I saw ur work and found it extremely interesting,and inspiring.I never imagined you could do get this high quality 3d in Sketchup+Vray.If you dont mind, could you please recommend some websites or tutorials to learn sketchup and vray for a beginner like me,mainly architecture..
Many Thanks
Rose

silver_shadow

@rose said:

Hi,I am new to this Community.I saw ur work and found it extremely interesting,and inspiring.I never imagined you could do get this high quality 3d in Sketchup+Vray.If you dont mind, could you please recommend some websites or tutorials to learn sketchup and vray for a beginner like me,mainly architecture..
Many Thanks
Rose

hi rose
I learned sketchup and vray mostly thru trial and error. This website has good tutorials to get you going on sketchup. On the Vray side, probably the best way is to look for vray in general, does not need to be su, it could be for rhino or max, the way its working applies the same to all other applications. Sorry, i know its not much help.