Final streetscape - sketchup, twilight, photoshop
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im so glad somebody finally noticed!! I spent a lot of time getting the road right! I adapted a texture from cg textures.com. its as close to a typical british road as I could make! I made a bumpmap for it too and applied a rough stone template in twilight. I got the curb texture from this forum and projected it over the curb.
I made most of the textures so if you would like any (including bumps) let me know and I will post them. Got higher res version of road texture too if you want it.
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I would love the road texture and bump Oli.
Also the kerb if possible too.Thanks
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Road texture would be quite nice to have.
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PM me your email guys and I'll send it to you. its too large and its not worth reducing.
i'll post a photobucket version in meantime here:
dylan you can use the kerb texture itself as a bump map in the twilight bump channel.
here is kerb texture:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=40&t=22057&p=194908&hilit=side+walk#p194908
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here are material settings (to rough stone template)
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@olishea said:
and wtf man
@unknownuser said:"Oh, it not personal, but I absolutely abhor gabion baskets in any way, shape or form."
this isn't even constructive... personal taste means nothing in this game. what would you suggest?.....a big brick wall? gabions were chosen for visual lightness and the fact that plants can grow from them further softening their appearance. gabion material is reclaimed too so its a great choice IMOSorry, but it is from personal (mis) use here in the states. The wires in gabions have a tendency to break and then you have these nice pointy wires that can cause problems. Yours might be completely different gabions that what I am used to here in the states. We use them at stream edges. I am a proponent for natural scapes ( take a look at http://www.wildlandhydrology.com/). So if you are asking for an alternative within those parameters, a vertical green wall might work well.
Again, this was not meant as a personal attack - honest.
Rick
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Man I love Gabions in any shape or form! We use tham a lot here without any structural failure of the mesh!
Though in Oli's case though I like them I would like to see a material break every now and then!
Nice work by the way Oli!!!! My only crit would be as someone else suggested the colours are a bit saturated and the grass could use some work. And there are a lot of people for a simple street scene IMHO!!
Those ramps give me the jitters a bit though, nice wide steps are so much more appealing.
As I said though, great work! I didn't really expect less!
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Thanks for the comments Richard, always welcome and helpful.
The architect wanted more people in the scenes but I secretly deleted them haha!
I keep the colours a bit saturated for printing because the printer is always dull.
Rick: no worries pal
Here are the two other images. I rushed the PP on these so please forgive any mistakes! And don't slag the car off because its identical to mine, thanks to majid for the car paint!
Cheers
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This is with Podium Version 2 Beta!! Materials only took 5 minutes to setup and this render took only 40 mins as opposed to 5-10 hour unbiased.
I removed the trees because the current beta doesn't render dirty PNGs too well, but the team is working on it I hear.
Little bit of photshop, but generally all Podium version 2! the colours are lovely compared to the previous podium.
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Agree about the Podium colours, they really work well.
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Perhaps I shouldn't comment on this, but I really can't see the huge difference you guy's can...
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bravo,
pretty light and textures.
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I find the architecture quite interesting....
and you seem to visualise the idea quite well. Nice renders.The Podium v 2.0 (beta) colors are indeed very nice. I am looking forward at the Christmas break to get into the new render engine.
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frederik: the main difference is quality and colour. Podium 1.x renders were generally quite cold due to physical sky. Remember we are comparing Podium v2 to Podium 1.x (not podium vs twilight god forbid!!)
biebel: I don't get you....you wanna see a physical sky render for twilight?
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I like the colors alot better with v2 - more vibrant, however the grass doesn't look as nice as previous renders - is this because this a v2 work in progress like the trees too?
Rick
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@olishea said:
....you wanna see a physical sky render for twilight?
Or Podium v2...it doesn't matter which one.
The reason why I ask is that in all the above renders, the sky seems to look just a bit too dark.
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I made the sky a bit darker to balance the dark tarmac at bottom of image. maybe too dark but what the hell....lets have a saturated cheery sky for the planners to put a smile on their faces! I normally apply a vertical black gradient to the sky with overlay belnding mode to make it more punchy....but sometimes I go too far lol.
Rick I added the grass in photoshop....so its different in each image....im not very good at putting grass in yet!! its mostly trial and error lol. The tree issue affects pngs with transparency (but not all)....the podium team will fix this no doubt. remember this is just the very first beta of version 2.
Biebel: the v2 beta physical sky cannot be changed in this version of the beta. But the sky is pretty much raw render....i only added the clouds over the raw physical sky. So the colour and tone of the sky is as you would see it in the render. I would post the raw render but I'm not at work computer. But yes it is quite dark, I agree....but I like it! Podium team mentioned implementing hdri support and other sky options so it looks very promising.
Don't look too much into this image guys, i only spent 5 minutes setting up materials. It's not supposed to be a comparison of render engines....let's never go down that track again! podium and twilight are brothers not enemies. (as Miguel aka Ecuadorian quite rightly said)
Probably not gonna post much around xmas so if I don't say it before.....
HAPPY CHRISTMAS GUYS AND HAVE A GREAT NEW YEAR
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Oli I think youve done a fantastic job in visualising the architects design. I like pretty much every image and can relate to the project as I'm only an hour away from you in Yorkshire
My only crit would be directed towards the architect.. if your council estates are anything like ours then any smooth surface gets covered in grafitti pretty quickly and these houses are a grafitti artists dream.
Anyway have a good Xmas and keep up the good work next year.
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@cadmunkey said:
if your council estates are anything like ours then any smooth surface gets covered in grafitti pretty quickly and these houses are a grafitti artists dream.
I disagree.
It may be the case that a cheap and nasty council estate finds itself plastered with graffiti, but I don't see this is a cheap and nasty council estate.
I might be wrong, but I think if that building was built it would be treated with a fair amount of respect.
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@johnsenior1973 said:
@cadmunkey said:
if your council estates are anything like ours then any smooth surface gets covered in grafitti pretty quickly and these houses are a grafitti artists dream.
It may be the case that a cheap and nasty council estate finds itself plastered with graffiti, but I don't see this is a cheap and nasty council estate.I might be wrong, but I think if that building was built it would be treated with a fair amount of respect.
I'd like to agree, but Councils dont get to pick and choose their tennants. Its the people that make up the estate, and as you know council estates are predominantly made up from lower income families and have much higher crime rates.
Anyway, I hope its a successful scheme long term, as most estates are damn ugly to look at.
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