Exterior : vizdepot model [update page 3]

kwistenbiebel

My attention went back to the car.....

alexander

Boy Biebel.
verrrryyyyyyyyyyyyy nice

kwistenbiebel

Thanks alexander

An interior tryout...The furniture needs to be re-arranged though

kwistenbiebel

kwistenbiebel

Still having fun :

Jackson

Kwist,

Looking amazing, that water is fantastic- it's not so much the reflection that makes it, but the refraction of the lake bed.... absolutely beautiful. How did you create the wave bump map or was the material bundled with Fry?

kwistenbiebel

Hi Jackson,

It's a simple low-res bumpmap on the default Fry water preset material which is basically a ghost glass (AGS) I guess.

Here is the bump map I used (works as well with all different render engines):

Jackson

Thanks very much for posting that, very generous, can't wait to try this out. As a relative newbie to "standard" render progs (I'm a bit of an old hand at Vue, but it's material editor is very much self-contained including a bump map generator (which doesn't export )) one of the things I struggle with is creating and finding seamless bump maps. Obviously wood floors, tiles, bricks, etc are pretty easy to desaturate and edit in Photoshop, but I'm a bit stuck on how to produce waves, ripples, window deflection bump maps, grass, etc. Any tips re: bump maps? Sorry for picking your brains like this, but most VRay forums I've seen are predominately concerned with render settings (which perversely I find reasonably easy in VRay) and not so much with materials.

Thanks in advance,

mateo soletic

Amazing images,thanks for sharing.

kwistenbiebel

Thanks Mateo and Modelhead.

kwistenbiebel

Last one.....I am done with this scene.
Thanks for watching.

sepo

And I will be first of the last to comment. Amazing renders. The Fryrender really loves you, no doubt. Beautiful images.

kwistenbiebel

Thank you Sid...Your comments are always appreciated

alexander

wonderfull..

i thought i almost saw some fish swimming in the water.
looks good biebel, can you show more how you did it ???

kwistenbiebel

@alexander said:

looks good biebel, can you show more how you did it ???

Thanks Alexander.
That's a difficult question to answer.

Basically I use Fryrender in following steps:

open the Fry toolbar
select the SU material (in SU material browser) and click on the 'paint bucket' button of Fry toolbar to start editing the material...From now on a corresponding Fry material is created.
push the 'A' button (fry toolbar) and click on the viewport to set the cameras focus point.
push the 'environment' button (fry toolbar) to setup the sky and sun. Beware that the sun does not match the SU sun so you need to experiment.
push the 'camera' button (the left one) to setup your camera settings. For exteriors I mostly use following settings: iso 200, shutterspeed 1/250, fstop 12
push 'render settings' to setup the image width/height
'export as 3d' in file menu to render. Most of the time I uncheck 'export all cameras' as it often causes a crash. See to it that 'export all geometry' is checked.

About the water: there are 2 planes: 1 water plane which is basically a (ghost) glass material with a water bump applied and 1 surface below that (app. 50 cm) containg a moss texture I downloaded from http://www.cgtextures.com.

Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel

nomeradona

biebel, i notice you render using fryrender. what was your workflow from skp file to fryrender.

Jackson

Nomeradona,

In answer to your question, read the post above yours. :ewink:

nomeradona

thnaks jackson, the above is talking about the how the material and sun has been set up inside the fryrender already. my quick question if kwisten imported the file, open an su file or what. basically from Skp file going to fry.

kwistenbiebel

Hi Nomer,

Fryrender works completely within Sketchup (like Podium and Vray).
After all the materials and light are set , you choose 'export as 3d model' in the file menu and the rendering will start automatically (= a new Fry window will open and starts the rendering).

Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel

Jackson

Nomeradona,

I believe he's using the FryRender plugin for SketchUp (hence he said "Open up the Fry toolbar"- I'm assuming this is a plugin toolbar in SU, same as most render plugins) and his last tip covered the export setup.

@kwistenbiebel said:

'export as 3d' in file menu to render. Most of the time I uncheck 'export all cameras' as it often causes a crash. See to it that 'export all geometry' is checked.