New Yacht
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In thinking about what the best way to introduce myself might be, I thought a display of something I drew this year might be a good plan of action. Now I admit that my after-design image rendering abilities aren't exactly professional, being that I just started learning this month with a Podium trial; I'll get better.
Any comments would be appreciated whether it be constructive criticisms or rendering program suggestions, I'm all ears, thanks.
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I've never used Podium, but I'd say you are using a pristine white for your yatch. 100% white doesn't exist in nature and it tends to result in odd renderings when you use it.
Maybe you could soften the light a bit if Podium allows this and improve your mats; for example your windows should reflect the sky, and you could asign diferent materials for diferent surfaces.The model looks great! is it all SU?
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Yup, 100% SU for the modeling, and thank you.
I know there must be more options in the way of lighting and I did some reading into it and found quite a bit about directional lighting and such, as well as changing surface textures etc. I agree with you as well on the crazy white seen here, although in this case it is the result of overexposure. I'll play with it a bit more and we'll see what the next render turns out like, although I think the next one I try will be of some original furniture or something..
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Dirty up the white for a start and get those windows fixed. Reflecting the environment or translucent? The model is spot on by the way looks really nice! I know how annoying renders are it takes a lot of persistence to learn but if you can model like this im sure you will knock it on the head in no time!
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Thank you liam887, I greatly appreciate your kind words, really, just a hobby although I really am getting interested in quality rendering just from browsing these forums. I am just using a trial of Podium right now and am very interested to know what rendering programs you use. Please let me know, I will be most grateful for your insight.
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Download Kerkythea, try it, it's free, and works well.
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Wow vicspa, thanks for that link there to Kerkythea, it looks fantastic already (compared to my time with Podium) and I'm reading into it now. Kerkythea just seems easier to use from the get go and it's looking a bit more deep at the same time: Neat. I did get a better render last night of a room in Podium that I'll post in a little bit, although I think I'll be moving over to Kertythea for a while. Thanks a ton.
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you may want to try twilight, its a nice transition from podium and its completely integrated into sketchup. it uses the same engine as kerkythea, so why not give it a go....there is a free trial on their website.http://www.twilightrender.com/ i believe its more streamlined than kerkythea with a nicer interface and gets great renders with minimal effort. of course you can go deeper with kerkythea, but maybe a stepping stone would help! all materials and settings in twilight, KT and thea render (the daddy) are transferable between each other, which is nice.
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@m.wendt said:
Thank you liam887, I greatly appreciate your kind words, really, just a hobby although I really am getting interested in quality rendering just from browsing these forums. I am just using a trial of Podium right now and am very interested to know what rendering programs you use. Please let me know, I will be most grateful for your insight.
I use mainly kerkythea and Thea for my renders now but rely heavily on post pro and digital after-painting in Photoshop as my machine I would use for renders in no more, stuck on a laptop and thats not ideal, hopefully ill be investing in another machine soon!
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m.wendt, if you are going to give Kerkythea a go, don't forget to dowload all the materials and globals if you have not done so far.
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Oh yes, no worries that was the first thing I did before I even installed Kerkythea: I scoured the heck out of that website for details. Lately (before recently finding SketchUcation) I have been getting into original modding for Bethesdsa games (namely Oblivion and Fallout NV), and within the modding world they pound it in regularly that you need to download everything and then some just for good measure, heh heh. My main projects there are a Castle&Town for Oblivion and a Hotel&Casino for FNV.
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Ahh you into modding then I'm working on a few right now, and also the new crysis engine, would be interesting to share notes I've only ever come across 1 other person putting SU models into games apart from myself, liamk887@gmail.com
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Please pardon me for a little while, I'm afraid I've been a bit over loaded with information with trying to learn Kerkythea, new stuff I found for Blender, a bit of Python, reading through this forum and Dave's forum... It's a lot to take in at first glance. So I'm just going to work on a summer home for a little while (one of the ways I relax), and maybe when I'm done with that (couple days) I'll get to rendering and blending it into a video game or something, but for the moment I'll be on virtual holiday
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I have never seen a yacht with planking running from port to starboard. Traditionally, it runs fore and aft. This is because in older wooden boats the planks spanned the frames which ran port to starboard. Of course your boat is probably steel and the only function of the wood is looks, grip, and maybe a little insulation.
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@roger said:
I have never seen a yacht with planking running from port to starboard. Traditionally, it runs fore and aft. This is because in older wooden boats the planks spanned the frames which ran port to starboard. Of course your boat is probably steel and the only function of the wood is looks, grip, and maybe a little insulation.
For added strength and watertightness you can cross-board with two layers of planking, with the second layer at right-angles to the first - i.e. parallel to the main structure. This then gives the weird appearance...
I once fell foul of this in an old cottage I was refurbishing - it had an upper floor in one part that was only 5" thick which turned out to include two layers of cross-boarded flooring - each ~1" thick - spanning twice as far a joists that depth [~3"] can do 'safely' and of course the bearings of the joists were exactly the opposite to the sides you might assume from the upper floor's boarding direction...
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Wow, thanks y'all for that info: I really did not know any of that and I thank you for your input. In this case I haven't really worked out all the kinks in the design and I appreciate your notes-- I will add them to the pile of mistakes that I need to fix or show in more detail... like the doors in the front off the main deck there do not actually work with the floor plans and the windows are not translucent; the top deck is empty and the white is too white. Lots to do when I get some time, thanks again
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