Kitchen - WIP
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Here's a work-in-progress pic of a kitchen project I've been modelling. When I had the range modelled I thought I'd try rendering it in the technique that might become known as the 'Chippwalters Method'. I exported lines-only at fairly high resolution. I then used Podium to render the model using an Ambient Occlusion setting (a custom setting rather than one that came with Podium). The resulting render was then overlayed/merged with jpg export from SketchUp. I did that overlaying in Xara Xtreme Pro vector illustration software.
Regards, Ross
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i've got a feeling this is gonna be a good 'un
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Ross, great work as usual.
I'm looking forward to seeing more. -
I really love this rendering method. It works very well with detailed objects.
Look forward to seeing a few additional objects Ross
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@ross macintosh said:
Here's a work-in-progress pic of a kitchen project I've been modelling. When I had the range modelled I thought I'd try rendering it in the technique that might become known as the 'Chippwalters Method'. I exported lines-only at fairly high resolution. I then used Podium to render the model using an Ambient Occlusion setting (a custom setting rather than one that came with Podium). The resulting render was then overlayed/merged with jpg export from SketchUp. I did that overlaying in Xara Xtreme Pro vector illustration software.
Regards, Ross
Ross can you tell more about the ambient Occlusion setting ?
nice picture btw
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Yes Alexander I can if you are up to a wee bit of a hack. As you may know Podium uses the Kerkythea rendering engine. If you have Kerkethea and Podium installed you will find you can copy the Kerkythea presets into the Podium presets. (You do that by finding the applicable locations in each program's files and doing some copy & paste actions). What you'll find is many of Kerkythea's presets will work in Podium. I give no guarantees -- some may do nothing or worse --> crash Podium. In any case "ambient occlusion" does work. It doesn't automatically do the 'clay' look as ambient Occlusion will render in colour. For the clay look, like in my above attachment, just leave all surfaces in your model white; turn off shadows; turn off 'sky' and set the background to grey (or a sepia colour) and then do the render. In Podium I'm using the 800x600 size plus max. quality and max. jaggy slider settings. I set the ceiling in the kitchen to be a light-emitting material in Podium by selecting the surface and adjusting the Podium light slider. For me the rendering took about 15 minutes max.
The project is still very much a Work-in-progress. I attach a newer image rendered the same way. I've modelled the big Thermador fridge and a stacked high-end Miele coffee station (Dang I'd love to have one of those puppies) & a matched Miele convection/microwave. I still have lots to do on the cabinets.
Regards, Ross
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Those look great, Ross. What light value did you give the ceiling?
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