My Images of the day

Paul Russam

I'd forgotten that I'd been having a go with Twilight Render using the church as a tester before the revised design reared its head.

Here's some images I knocked out using Twilight, since I'd abandoned rendering when I abandoned 3D Studio Max in 2004 I had to relearn some things but I've go to say TW is good and fantastically easy to use. My only problem in getting better out of my models is me at the moment.

I was trying to get a highly reflective marble with this one and accidentally ended up with a polished steel floor, not what I intended but that's why their called test renders.

Stinkie

Marvellous work.

watkins

Dear Paul,

I know that this sounds a bit wacky, but have you thought of a using glass floors in your design so that the mosaic is still visible? Yea, I know, wacky!

Regards,
Bob

Paul Russam

Bob,
I had thought of it but as I'm 'just' the 3D guy and 'not' an architect my opinion doesn't carry much weight around here when it comes to design ideas.
But...... I do plan on putting my ideas on the table.

Replace the existing full depth floor with glass and lighting it from below but then I thought about how you would clean the covered area or replace the lights.
Have the risers of the steps in glass block with lights behind and either marble or timber as the goings/level areas, again maintenance would be a problem.
Marble risers with a new mosaic design for the goings/level areas, could be too fussy.

We'll see, its early days for this one but time's a ticking as a design will have to be resolved soon.

sepo

Amazing work....and materials in some renders are fantastic. I like oak very much...

Stinkie

I'm wondering how big this model is. 80 - 90 MB?

JuanV.Soler

how clean and, neat
.thanks very much
Paul Russam

Paul Russam

Thanks for all the nice comments, they truly make a difference.

@unknownuser said:

I'm wondering how big this model is. 80 - 90 MB?

The model is about 50-60mb at the moment, it was smaller but I went through it recently and 'upped' the detail on some of the parts that were bugging me, the round tops to the column bases, the roses at the end of the beading around the arches etc.
I've probably overdone the textures on the new floors as they make the altar walls look a bit blurry in comparison. I'm tempted to remake the textures as higher res but that's just the sadomasochist in me talking

Elibjr

My God,
I feel so inadequate now. This is beautiful. How long did it take you to model this? What settings did you use in TW and how long did it take this thing to render?

Looking at the sanctuary, this place looks like it would be dark at night. Is there any thought to update the lighting?

I would say that you have mastered this software. Amazing and inspiring. Thank you Mr. Russam!

Paul Russam

I did another Twilight Render last night.

SU Scene:

After 14h25m at 1200x850:

After a bit of Post Processing:

And for reference, a photo of the real thing:

Here's a link to the Picasa album with the full size images:
http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Paul.Russam/IOTD20090930?feat=directlink

Ecuadorian

The only difference I see is that the real photo has a lot more light coming in from the windows.

Perhaps rising "Sky Brightness" and "Maximum Sun Intensity" values from the Sun/Sky tab in Twilight's Light Editor might help get a bit closer to the real thing. Especially "Sky Brightness". But this is just nitpicking; you've done an amazing modeling job, Paul. You are really pushing SketchUp's limits.

Paul Russam

A couple of Twilight updates:

After 2h22m

After 3h

Managed to get a subtle bump on the tiles

This one is cooking overnight, but this is what I got after 50m

As usual the full res ones are on my Picasa album:http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Paul.Russam/IOTD20090930?feat=directlink

Paul Russam

OK then, after 14h05m here's what we got:

Gamma 1.0 Exposure 0.7

Gamma 1.0 Exposure 0.6

Gamma 1.0 Exposure 0.5

Gamma 1.0 Exposure 0.4

The last one is by far the best settings.
Well done to all involved with Twilight, and of course Sketchup, For this to render without crashing is a true achievement.

As usual Full res images in Picasa Album:http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Paul.Russam/IOTD20091001?feat=directlink

Frederik

I can only repeat myself...
This is absolutely STUNNING work...!!

d12dozr

Ditto that....Thanks for posting these, Paul!

troyhome

incredible. stunning. wowoww...

Paul Russam

Thanks all for the fantastic comments, they mean a lot.

After having worked on this damn project for so long I can't see it as anything else other than a collection of minor annoyances that need fixing, making better etc. So its always nice when fresh sets of eyes see it and write such nice comments.

The phrase 'Familiarity Breeds Contempt' rings a bell

Just so you know I do work on other projects, lots of them in fact, but non really worth posting here.

Imhere2learn

Hi Paul,
Your work is indeed very impressive. I am fairly new to 3d modeling with SketchUp and am amazed what people like yourself can do with it. I have a friend from NI and was wondering what City or Town this church is in.

Keep up the great work.
Gregory

Paul Russam

Gregory,
Its in Lurgan, on North St.

Here's a link for Bing Maps, I'd have used Google but they have very little of NI covered.
http://www.bing.com/maps/default.aspx?v=2&FORM=LMLTCP&cp=t2b13hgg51z0&style=b&lvl=1&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&phx=0&phy=0&phscl=1&scene=18295866&encType=1

michaliszissiou

Mr Russam, all this thread is just unbelievable. Thanks for posting this.