Some nXtRender New England Landscapes

Al Hart

Last spring, we exchanged a few emails, one of which is below. For your own
product demo, you had used a Sketchup 3DWH posting of a porch I was
designing for my home in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. You had kindly made a
couple of additional renderings of my house/porch model, and emailed them
directly to me.

When I received them, I realized that not everybody's default terrain vision
was of a green hillside in New England. I had posted without a drawn
terrain, and you had made assumptions about the missing data, which placed
the house somewhat on stilts on flat terrain. I told you then that I was
going to learn how to use the Sandbox features. However, I also assumed I
would not be rendering, because of the high cost.

Meanwhile, your renderings opened a new world of drawing to me.

Since then, I have taught myself how to draw complex terrain. Later, while
evaluating competing products, I found out that your company had added a
product that was more in line with my non-professional budget. I have been
playing with your trial package; because of flaws in its demo release, I
have briefly had the powers of the full package.

The attached (Picasa) collage shows two of your renderings, and my own
versions of the same perspectives - now enhanced with actual topography, and
some of the actual lanscaping. I thought you might find the aesthetic
differences interesting.

Thanks for the comments and examples.

I have extracted your 4 images below. I assume your images are the ones with more trees, etc.

solo

Al

The second image is best IMO but the mid ground tree looks a little strange, the clipping is not clean and the scale looks out.

Al Hart

@solo said:

Al

The second image is best IMO but the mid ground tree looks a little strange, the clipping is not clean and the scale looks out.

Yes - that tree in the upper left is a little strange...

olishea

solo how is your 3d tree pack coming along?

most 3d warehouse 3d trees are cack...I'd go for cutouts al, they can be touched up in photoshop to match the light/shadow of the scene. maybe sun is slightly 'overexposing' the images too?