Render package options?

solo

Just took a look at the example you posted, firstly I'd work on the materials, getting better quality seamless materials will help when rendering, I pretty much left your model as is, just added pavement and road and some tree proxy's, used HDRI lighting and background, 5 minutes setup and 10 minutes render, all within SU (not studio) no post processing.

pbacot

Pete,

That's impressive Pete. (of course these are YOUR times ) Is this with the Thea "soon to be released" plugin? I can't wait.

Did you modify the window material?

Peter

Al Hart

@toynlet said:

Hi Guys

Apologise if this is posted in the wrong section but I thought asking people who use different packages and regularly produce high quality photorealistic renders would be the best to ask for a bit of advice!
Steve

There are some sample SketchUp renderings, from various rendering packages, on this site:

http://sketchuprendering.com/sample-models-and-renderings/

I think my main observation of them is that all the packages can product good renderings one the user spends a little time learning how t set things up.

Stinkie

Pete, looks good. Bsd?

solo

@unknownuser said:

Pete, looks good. Bsd?

TR1 (unbiased), I tested BSD and it rendered in 2 min 46

Stinkie

Not bad, not bad at all. I assume you downsampled the image?

solo

@unknownuser said:

Not bad, not bad at all. I assume you downsampled the image?

I set supersampling on 'normal', I did a quick video of the interactive BSD engine.

Let me upload it to someplace and post in this reply when done.

Here it is, It's in this wide format as I recorded over two monitors (both 27 inches)

So take into account I am rendering at a huge ratio of 1870x850 (my SU ratio)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1129899/Thea4SU.mp4

Stinkie

Cool vid. Thanks for that.
My assumption was you made your image smaller in post, thus compressing the noise.

jpalm32

Twilight will give great results at very reasonable price. Learning curve can be applied to Thea!

solo

@jpalm32 said:

Twilight will give great results at very reasonable price. Learning curve can be applied to Thea!

Absolutely, Twilight is another great option.

The new Thea4SU is very simple to use by the way.

Stinkie

@solo said:

@jpalm32 said:

Twilight will give great results at very reasonable price. Learning curve can be applied to Thea!

Ah, yes. Forgot about that one. Good choice for a beginner. Easy to use, cheap, nice forum. And there's a tutorial on Lynda.com.

toynlet

Thankyou to everyone for their input!
Even more research for me and hopefully an opportunity to use some of these packages.
Steve

jo-ke

@solo said:

all within SU (not studio) no post processing.

Is there now a thea- SU integrated- version (comparable to twilight) without export like Kerkythea?

Sounds interessting!

solo

@jo-ke said:

@solo said:

all within SU (not studio) no post processing.

Is there now a thea- SU integrated- version (comparable to twilight) without export like Kerkythea?

Sounds interessting!

Yup,it's amazing, not yet available as it's still in beta, hopefully some time this month.

jo-ke

Wow!

This are really good news!

Can't wait to try it...

kilgo

Here's one from Podium.

Podium Default Settings

kilgo

another one...You can see by the render info (bottom of image) adding the trees extended its time from 4min to 20 min.

with some trees and a few (post render) color adjustments

majid

I gave a try using KT, + KT free trees, instancing them around the model.
background fit image + distance blue light ( to simulate blues shadows)
that is all
4 min 37 sec!