Caution
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This is a Podium render. I was playing around with the new bumpmap support that is included in Podium V1.5 and had assembled this scene from various components. The ground effect is a scratched metal texture scaled up large & has an associated bumpmap.
Regards, Ross
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He... Nice results, Ross.
Am I mistaken though when it appears to me that the big tank or basin or whatever it is kind of "floating" above the ground? -
hehe Battle around OK pool. Like that floor texture.
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The vessel is sitting on the ground -- just has a recessed base for that floating look necessary to have it 'feel' like the vessel is actually holding the load.
The idea of putting a gun in the scene is my little tribute to Alex Colville's painting called Pacific. He is one of my favorite artists and that is my favorite painting of his. Incidentally my mother has a table exactly like that. That painting inspired a scene in the film 'Heat' with actor Robert De Niro.
Regards, Ross
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I see you are using background colour. Have you tried using sky as IMO the textures look richer.
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Ah, I see the recessed base now. Makes sense. Just saw another Podium render around the other day and there was a kind of floating effect, too, for some reason.
sepo, I like the grey all around thing in the image - it emphasises the yellow caution sign even better. Like some colourful spot in a b@w picture.
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Yes even in the first one I was using a gray background colour rather than turning on the sky. To test the difference I rendered it with the sky turned on -- see the result below...
In looking at both I think I prefer the first image. In general I have trouble with how blue images look when the sky is turned on.
Regards, Ross
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I don't know this in the current version of Podium but in Kerky I usually get the same if I use physical sky. Therefore I rather use a hemispherical (or spherical) sky image no matter how the real kerky gurus swear on the true light values of physical sky (I lurk a lot on the Kerky forums trying to learn before asking some stupid question
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Ross,
You are doing an excellent job with the Podium render system. Keep it up because every time you post you inspire me to try to get Podium to work for me.
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I suppose I should mention that the middle image did have some post-processing to add in the fog effect.
Regarding Kerkythea and Podium: As you may know Podium uses the Kerkythea rendering engine, adding an easier to use interface that works inside of SketchUp as a plugin. What is less known is that if you have both programs, you can use your favorite pre-sets from Kerkythea with v1.5 of Podium. Just copy over the .xlm presets from KT to your Podium installation. Where to put the copied files should be pretty obvious. Then when using Podium 1.5 you'll find those KT pre-sets available for use in the dropdown pre-set selector in Podium. Most of them will work and for those who also use Kerkythea it can add more familiarity to the Podium experience.
Regards, Ross
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