WIP: European Back Alley

[smokinbakin]

Update: (Still fixing the part of the road has a little "tear")

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[olishea]

this is going to be amazing, my spider sense is tingling

[sepo]

Looks good so far, but that arch looks dodgy

[smokinbakin]

@sepo said:

Looks good so far, but that arch looks dodgy

The shape, or the rocks?

[Sir]

its not symmetrical

[sepo]

The size of the stones at near top of the arch look way small. It looks like it could fall any minute.

[smokinbakin]

@sepo said:

The size of the stones at near top of the arch look way small. It looks like it could fall any minute.

Thanks for the help I will fix that shortly.

@sir said:

its not symmetrical

That was intentional to give it a worn down old appearance.

[Sir]

yes but in the olden days they build them properly or they didnt stand up at all! and i think your would have collapsed a long time ago...

but hey, thats what artistic license is for

[smokinbakin]

Here is and update, including a reference photo which a am mostly modeling after, but I will change a few things to my liking.

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[sepo]

Exactly...arch is same thickness all around, otherwise it would collapse.

[smokinbakin]

@sepo said:

Exactly...arch is same thickness all around, otherwise it would collapse.

I think I will just make all the little stones near the top bigger, and just ignore the fact that my arch would collapse in real life

[sepo]

Part of believeable render is that it resembles real and correct. If your arch does not read correct it will always poke you in the eye...

[smokinbakin]

@sepo said:

Part of believeable render is that it resembles real and correct. If your arch does not read correct it will always poke you in the eye...

Well I will do what I can to fix the problem, If you want to have a go fixing the problem, here is the Arch.

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the arch

[artysmedia]

I would like to be able to make something similar to this someday...
I want to see more!

[smokinbakin]

Here is part of the model I have textured, I rendered it in V-Ray attempting a evening look. I have included the visopt settings at the bottom, renamed as a ruby script.

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Evening render settings

[marked001]

looking awesome so far...

[artysmedia]

Good job with light and textures... waiting for more more more

[smokinbakin]

Thanks for the comments! Here is another render, I tried to make it a bit brighter.

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[olishea]

it looks real, nice texturing. I enjoy looking at this post. although I would reduce the opacity of your vignette layer

[brodie]

I agree, it's looking really promising! Fun thread to follow along with as more comes out

I'm with olishea on the rendering but then again I hate it when people start nitpicking my WIP so I won't say anything about that

-Brodie