Castle Howard

IdahoJ

An amazing piece of work. A wonderful example of what can be achieved with research, diligence and just plain "work a bit at it every day" kind of work. Very nice!

Cheers!

jamalito

By the way
I do not have any comment until I would say my comment
This design is wonderful
I have two questions
How many years you had worked on this design?
What is the program that you used in Render?

Fletch

your questions are answered in his first post.

Al Hart

@jamalito said:

What is the program that you used in Render?

IRender nXt and nXtRender are two versions of the nXt rendering engine integrated into SketchUp. take a look at: IRender nXt

MartinPh

I've been experimenting a bit with field of view, and played around in Photoshop with the result. I need to do something about the glass material, it doesn't look very good...

notareal

A grand project! Last render needs environmental reflections for windows and a perspective control lens (shift). Also perhaps instanced grass and displaced gravel. DOF feels a bit unnatural, is that post pro?

broomstick

Just.. Awesome. I hadn't seen this thread!!

Cyberdactyl

Very impressive. Awesome attention to detail!

I was just curious about those textures on the walls to the left in the last pic?

Does iRender have turbidity as a variable? It would really give your work a feel of distance.

MartinPh

Hi Cyberdactyl, no, unfortunately iRender doesn't do turbidity (yet?). Their image editor offers haze as a post-render processing option, but that didn't do much for this model. And the texture, well, it's a lame attempt at dirtmapping done in Photoshop... I would need procedurals to do it inside the render application, another option iRender doesn't have. I am so hoping some day the Vray people will finally fix their awful latest release, which is unable to render a model this size, and which has been sitting around uselessly on my PC ever since I, misguidedly, bought it...

solo

This great model needs Vue, well done mate.

nektares

wow that´s so amazing. i Love it the model is so well done
even without shaders it looks amazing, excellent job.
a bit of work with the landscape would be the cherry on the cake.
Congratulations!!!

richcat

@martinph said:

I would need procedurals to do it inside the render application, another option iRender doesn't have.

Hi Martin which version of IRender as you using as IRender nXt has procedural bump maps, and auto texture bumpshttp://wiki.renderplus.com/index.php?title=Procedural_Bump_Maps, the cheaper trimmed down version nXtRender does not.

nektares

This is amazing, i love it!

leedeetee

Just seen this and it is AMAZING! I live in the centre of York and have been many times, your model has made me want to go! Inspirational stuff. Makes me feel very humble!

Jet

You are my idol MartinPh!

I would like to know more about how you did the details.

TheRealEdge

great job mate,,,,well done,,,what rendering engine did you use?
Ta

Emark

Absolute fantastic job. Hope to see more renders. Cheers.

anhkoi88

please! Can you send model Castle Howard to me?

pbacot

Thanks for bumping this with your blunt request! Somehow I never saw it before

"It's been a while since I first thought that SU would be an ideal means of creating a 3d vision of Vanbrughs original plan. "

You proved correct,Martin.

Krisidious

WOW...