Nightime renders

[trillium]

thank you for posting these night renders, they look great! i just LOVE the blue toned one with the foreground reflecting pool and moon !! very beautiful atmosphere.
can't wait to see the Artlantis images!

[matteo]

David, these images are just superb
thank you for sharing them.

[davidh]

Attached is the visopt for the last nightshot above(with the pinkish hue on the plaster)
Obviously, as you cannot upload VISOPTS, here I have renamed it nightime 001.rb.Simply rename the.rb to .visopt and it will work.
Also attached are the 2 images I used for the G.I. lighting and the background.Sometimes I find that the image used for background does not give the lighting i am looking for so i will use a different image for G.I.

The only other lighting in the nighttime scenes are rectangular lights and emmisive materials allocated to the garden lamps.

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night time 001.rb

[steelers05]

very nice thank you.

[davidh]

one more night shot

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[artysmedia]

Your renders are great!
And the illumination is fantastic!

[wanas]

heyyy man , great work , ur my role model now , i just started rendering using vray 4 sketvhup ,and i tried a few night shots but of course no result as good as urs i posted them in this discussion under the title ( my first render trial plz comment ) so if u would check them out and tell me ur opinion i would be very grateful , so till then i am gonna try 2 render with those setting u sent , plz man send more .

[rdluther]

WOW... it looks like you took photos of a real development at sunset of a nuclear winter... increadible colors and great rendering!

[davidh]

same image as above but with backlit trees casting shadows

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[Ecuadorian]

Finding someone who uses Artlantis brings back good memories... I used it a lot for half a decade, and it was the fastest thing on earth

[davidh]

and another one..

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[davidh]

an overcast/dusk shot..

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[davidh]

same house diferent background/foreground

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[davidh]

one more with different external finishes and garden(more a late evening/early dusk shot)

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[davidh]

2 more night shots,I think the second is more successful than the first.Im trying to create an atmosphere with these night shots but regarding the building i think it requires some specularity on the walls to bring out the stone more.
regarding the images they have been post processed in photoshop,particularly by increasing the contrast and saturation considerably.

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[remon_v]

the second one is really nice!!! I like the atmosphere

[davidh]

this is the same building as in the previous 2 images but viewed from above.

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[plot-paris]

these images are extremely well lit. and what you do with the foreground / background is awesome!

[sepo]

Which render engine do you use? Vray?
edit: just realised you said it on the top of the first page.