Sample Model for Rendering - Loft w Telescope

Al Hart

First try with IRender nXt

Placed a background image outside the window, made the telescope body reflective and made the window itself a light source.

Al Hart

@chedda said:

A couple of things stand out, the harvest moon has an orange glow, the scene does not. Also the window frames do not meet the wall. The shadows are not really that realistic either. Being a loft and the fact you are looking up to me means that you wouldn't really see the top of the trees either. I've never use IRender nXt it looks like it renders fast is there anyway to increase the quality ?

Thanks for taking a look and for your comments. (I am always amazed how artistic people can see things that I do not see when they view a rendering.)

I just wanted to get a quick version out - hopefully to inspire some other people to render it with their own favorite rendering engine.

IRender nXt is a multi-pass renderer - meaning that the longer you let it render the better it gets. The image below was rendered for 500 passes and about an hour. To get better and better resolution of the shadows I could let in render overnight.

I liked the trees - so lets assume our loft is in a valley near a hill.

I could have placed the background on an actual surface - further outside the window - and then made it a light. I will do that for my next version.
Even better would have been an actual HDRi sky - which would have then used all the actual objects in the sky as light sources. But it is always a challenge to find a good night sky as an HDRi.

Also, I made the window itself the light source - which means that the shadows are all coming from the point of the window. Using the moon as a light source would make them more realistic.

chedda

Yes Al Night sky HDR's are hard to find, however i believe you can make your own using hi res images. I make mine with Maxwell but i expect photoshop or some other editor can also do this.

Roger

Night sky

Here is a night sky photo I took in Sonoita, Arizona. You are welcome to use it as a sky source. Let me know if you need a larger image.

pilou

The best guy for astronomic photos!
Robert Gendler
Totally amazing!

Roger

Telescope_room
Here is how I would visualize that scene. Keep in mind you could never have a view like that unless the moon was about 10 times closer and then the tidal forces on earth would be wreaking all kinds of havoc.

Bryan K

@roger said:

Keep in mind you could never have a view like that unless the moon was about 10 times closer and then the tidal forces on earth would be wreaking all kinds of havoc.

Picky, picky.

Very nice render. I like the softness. I might try this tonight.

david_h

I dunno . .. I think I have done something wrong. . .

Atticbusier 2012-09-10 16483300000.jpg

Bryan K

Who you gonna call?!

Bryan K

What a pain. Took me an hour. I couldn't get the starscape to show after 8 tries. Couldn't get the light right. There was something wrong with the window and I had to delete it altogether.

However, it rendered in mere minutes.

Kerkythea.

You really need to view it on a dark/black screen/border background for the full effect.

As usual, click on each image for the bigger stand alone picture.

david_h

well I see your problem right off the bat. . .you've got draco where andromeda should be. . .Ursa Major in your first house, and Capricorn in your seventh house. . ..

I'd move into an apartment.

Bryan K

@unknownuser said:

well I see your problem right off the bat. . .you've got draco where andromeda should be. . .Ursa Major in your first house, and Capricorn in your seventh house. . ..

I'd move into an apartment.

DOH! I knew something was wrong!

Al Hart

@roger said:

[attachment=0:kp2w2k8m]telescope_room.jpg[/attachment:kp2w2k8m]
Here is how I would visualize that scene. Keep in mind you could never have a view like that unless the moon was about 10 times closer and then the tidal forces on earth would be wreaking all kinds of havoc.

Do you want to mention which rendering engine you used so I can put the result on SketchUpRendering.com?

Roger

@al hart said:

@roger said:

[attachment=0:6kvfnt10]telescope_room.jpg[/attachment:6kvfnt10]
Here is how I would visualize that scene. Keep in mind you could never have a view like that unless the moon was about 10 times closer and then the tidal forces on earth would be wreaking all kinds of havoc.

Do you want to mention which rendering engine you used so I can put the result on SketchUpRendering.com?

I did not use a rendering engine. All were Post Production modifications of your render done in PhotoShop.

Al Hart

@roger said:

I did not use a rendering engine. All were Post Production modifications of your render done in PhotoShop.

AHA! You photo shop guys are amazing!

david_h

Still not workin' quite right. . .

Atticbusier 2012-09-11 16591200000.jpg

Al Hart

Here's another attempt with lots of stars and a reflective floor.

Some light is coming from the ceiling, and some light from those bright stars.

I also had to remove one of the semi-transparent window things.

(rendered with IRender nXt)

solo

Whoah!! is this a room in a space ship?

Roger

@unknownuser said:

Still not workin' quite right. . .

Too late meteor warning system.

Al Hart

@solo said:

Whoah!! is this a room in a space ship?

I think the whole idea of a loft and a telescope would inspire the imagination of the the viewer, and could cause some non-realistic "photo-realistic" images - such as the large bright moons, and the bright colorful stars.