Easy Podium render...
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Yesterday I decided to have another look at Podium. I'm glad I did because the beta of 1.5 offers quite a bit. Over time I've realized that for a renderer to fit into my workflow it's going to have be easy. I don't need to achieve perfection -- just something I can use in a reasonable amount of time. The new Podium might just be the ticket.
For the attached image I just gave the pool water face some reflectivity and then told Podium to render with the 'noisy' setting. I then left the room to watch some tv with the family. Upon returning I found Podium had completed 150 passes and noise wasn't an issue in the render so I stopped it. I opened the jpg in Xara Xtreme Pro and added a little sharpening and adjusted the brightness and contrast slightly. That was about 1 minute of post processing. I'm pleased with the result especially since I know Podium is capable of better. I realize for instance that adding some bump mapping might have made a better result. Adding reflectivity to the glass would likely improve the results too. Even without such touches I'm pleased that it did so well basically just rendering the straight SU model.
Regards, Ross
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a water bump would make the pool come alive. If you need any textures, bumps etc, feel free to ask i have a few good ones.
excellent render.
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and even you can use your existing water texture. just go to the material editor and rename your water texture. for example if the name of texture is "water.jpg" all you need to do is change it to water_bump.jpg. that it podium will automatically remind itself that you are using bump map. you can also increase bumpby assigning bump number like this "water_bump1.jpg", water_bump2.jpg.....
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Very impressive Ross. I'm also excited about this program.
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1.5 isn't open beta yet, right? I started giving Podium a try again this week, but render time for me has been extremely slow. I want to use it, hopefully 1.5 is what I need, otherwise I'll just stick with Kerkythea for now.
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Hi kwick7 -- all registered users of Podium have access to the Beta. If your getting along fine with Kerkythea then you may never need Podium. If I'm not mistaken, Podium uses the Kerkythea rendering engine so it will never be any faster than it. What Podium does have going for it is the simplified user interface and the way it works inside SU as a plugin.
Thanks for the feedback Tina, Solo and nomeradona. The tips are appreciated too.
Regards, Ross
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Nice work...!!
This is the first time I have been in here since the old SU Forum.
It's good to recognise some of the old names.....!!
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Just for the record Podium can be faster than Kerky. It depends on presets you use. It is similar to 2 computers using same spec and one is faster than the other. It is all in fine tuning
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@ross macintosh said:
Hi kwick7 -- all registered users of Podium have access to the Beta. If your getting along fine with Kerkythea then you may never need Podium. If I'm not mistaken, Podium uses the Kerkythea rendering engine so it will never be any faster than it. What Podium does have going for it is the simplified user interface and the way it works inside SU as a plugin.
Thanks for the feedback Tina, Solo and nomeradona. The tips are appreciated too.
Regards, Ross
All registered users- as in those that have purchased Podium already?
It would be nice to not have to load up Kerkythea and just render away in SketchUp. I have gotten better with Podium over the past 2 days, though, and will continue tinkering with it. The trial just isn't doing anything for me - too many limits.
At the price, though, I may just buy Podium- then I can see what the deal is with 1.5.
Now.... if only someone would port either of them to the mac- then I would be really happy.
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Mac porting is on our to do list.When I can not say though
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@sepo said:
Mac porting is on our to do list.When I can not say though
I'll take what I can get! Hope meter filled!
I long for the day when I can stop using bootcamp to render or I can stop using my old centrino pc laptop with a measily 512 megs of ram.
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I like it Ross. I think you have done an excellent job. I'm trying to do the same with some of my models using Podium and I'm struggling. My model colors render all whack, I'm not doing so well with Podium. I want to do something like what you have done, Nice!
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Spence visit us at forum. There will be someone keen to help.
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