Castle Howard

MartinPh

Thanks all! Jopsa, I'd love to texture it, but I would need a renderer that does procedurals (actually I have one, Vray, but it is unable to render models this large ). I think I'll be experimenting in Photoshop instead. Best of all would be to export this to Vue, as someone else suggested, but on my system that is definitely out of the question... (and like SU, Vue is very good at handling its own native format, but not so good at handling imported geometry).

As for stats:
3,446,304 edges
1,527,138 faces
6,682 component instances
3,832 groups

I am on a P4, 2,13 Ghz dual core Vista PC, with 4 GB of RAM and a 'Loser Edition' nVidia card that I will be replacing one of these days... (it messes up shadows completely). The model was finished in SU 7, and SU can handle it without any problem at all; only, when orbiting, components and groups go into box mode. I had several crashes, however, when trying to export large bitmaps.

PS, Jopsa: I found your Pantheon greatly inspiring, it seems to me that operates at an even higher level of detail!

MartinPh

Here's another render. I love this feature of iRender, it actually does true orthogonal renders.

Paul Russam

Well done! I'm truly impressed. That's a lot of work you've done there.
Do you have an example of the drawings you worked from?, I'd love to see what type of info you had.

3eighty

Fantastic work...Reminds me of a castle out of "The Tudors"...If you want a render done in Vue I'd be happy to do one for you...

Al Hart

Nice stuff.

I put a link to this thread on the Render Plus Blog.

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And I'll send you a PM with a special discount for IRender nXt.

Keep up the good work!

linea

Martin
This is phenomenal work. I live about an hour from Castle Howard so have visited a few times. Wish I'd thought about doing an SU model!

jon

studio1

I am truely amazed - I'd like to say this is a stunning piece of work but it simply wouldn't do justice to the care and the sheer dedication gone into this.

Unbeleivable....

d12dozr

Phenomenal modeling! Thanks for posting here for us all to enjoy

MartinPh

...iRender turned out another one overnight.

EarthMover

Phenomenal work! I'm picturing this with some dirt maps applied, better glass and an ambient occlusion overlay. It wouldn't be too hard to take this to photo quality that would fool most anyone. Great job on the mode ling!!!!

CADAddict

Simply Brilliant,
great Job!

simon le bon

Bookmarked in my Sketchup remarkable pages

pilou

Now you can make a 3D printing
But piece by piece
like this one 'Tuileries : Louvres' behind the guy
in fact all is not 3D printing because will be to expensive but one piece then copy in traditional (silicon muld)
[flash=480,385:3dhk1xjz]http://www.youtube.com/v/IMAUc9kQ8a4&hl[/flash:3dhk1xjz]

MartinPh

Tempting thought Pilou... only, where will I put it...?

Adam, I need to get into the iRender material editor more; I barely scratched the surface. But bitmap textures are basically useless, except for detail views; on the large scale patterning will occur. As for the glass, suggestions are welcme! I'm not satisfied with the metal ornaments either.

As far as I've been able to see iRender unfortunately doesn't do AO. I'm still hoping ASGVIS will finally come up with a decent patch for their new, incredibly buggy Vray, which has been sitting on my PC unused for over a month now because it crashes every time I try to render this model. I would be very curious to see what VRAY makes of this!

tomislavm

My God,it looks fantastic, unbeleivable. For me You are the master, how long did You make it?

ScottPara

This is a perfect example of a highly detailed model and taking the time to get things right and not rushing things through only to post your work. The attention to detail is fantastic to say the least.

Scott

Anssi

Martin,

I run out of superlatives.

Now you can make an animated version of Brideshead Revisited...

Anssi

Fletch

Stunning model! I hope you leveraged the use of components in this one! Seems like if it was done right, it would be a big file, but no 80Mb...
but who am I to judge?! I've never built a castle like that!

I'm sure if you showed what you've done to people that care about the castle you would find it of great importance to them. If they're in the mood to think, or listen.

guessing SU2KT could export this to Kerkythea, and you can use layered/procedural textures with it, and instancing brush for vegetation... and it's free.

MartinPh

Hm, no, unfortunately. Attempts to export this to Kerkythea only make SU crash. That's why I opt for renderers that work inside SU.

You are undoubtedly right though that a little more work on thorough use of components would reduce the file size... I tend to be a bit lax in that way, bad, bad habit... Not that I would expect such a 'cleanup' to solve the export problem, I'm afraid my system simply isn't up to the task.

Al Hart

@martinph said:

As far as I've been able to see iRender unfortunately doesn't do AO. I'm still hoping ASGVIS will finally come up with a decent patch for their new, incredibly buggy Vray, which has been sitting on my PC unused for over a month now because it crashes every time I try to render this model. I would be very curious to see what VRAY makes of this!

Ambient occlusion is a technique used to "fake" indirect lighting in renderers which do not offer this feature. Typically, engines like Maxwell, Kerkythea, or IRender nXt do not use this because they offer "true" indirect lighting. Some engines offer the choice of indirect lighting or ambient occlusion ( ambient occlusion is faster, but much less correct).

For IRender nXt, you should use the "Gather/Exterior" indirect lighting setting to get a similar result, using actual indirect lighting.