Ceramic house

xonpt

The images were rendered at 1500X1043 px for 5-7 hrs each (depending on the scene) on my old i7 with 6 Gb of RAM.

this is the only reason i dont switch to Thea... the unbiased engines are amazing, and now with the 1.2 final gathering, the biased ones are almost equally good

but i miss a biased preset where you can give up a little bit on quality, but get a render in 15 to 30 minutes, like you can do in VRay

even with "basic" interior preset, with no supersampling, i get 2 to 3 hour render in these kind of complex lightning scenes (my machine is even "older" than yours...)

but again, amazing images, you and Thea work very well together

Box

Simply Stunning work.

But I shudder to think what would happen if you dropped your coffee cup, the shrapnel would be lethal.

massimo

Thanks for comments guys.

Gareth

pffffft....not bad i suppose...!!

ok, ok...it's bloody good....!!

massimo

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Thanks.

olishea

what texture did you use for the specular massimo? Looks very real.

massimo

You mean for the ceramics?

Rich O Brien

@rich o brien said:

Incredible.

Yes, looks like the place had a nice vacuuming before you took the photo.

massimo

Nowadays you can use one of these anyway...

Gareth

@massimo said:

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Thanks.

you know i love it....!!

chedda

Good job !

massimo

Thanks.

novena

neat and clean renders, nicely done Massimo...

massimo

Thanks Victor.

marked001

I somehow missed these.. these are beautiful and really impressive with all of that white.

I have not ventured past the Interior Medium setting.. I'd be interested to see quality differences across the settings.

olishea

Yes massimo, the specular to the ceramic it looks great. What does it look like?

Gubermensch

Incredible! Any chance you'd share the mirror mat.pack?

cuttingedge

very impressive rendering indeed . I wonder how much time each render takes.
Thea has been taking great leaps!

@stefanq said:

WOW! Thea is brilliant in the right hands!
V-ray....be afraid....

I have seen lots of Thea renders that are impressive really. If I havent seen the
best of vray (at least in max, which VFSU is trying to catch up ) I 'd have switched.

One of these days, I'll try Thea

massimo

Thanks again guys.

@ marked001: I've tried some region renders with high preset and the differences were slight. Maybe I'll try a comparison.

@ Oli: I made the textures of the floor & the long slabs starting from images downloaded on this site. The maps were made with PS + Bricks'n'tiles + Pixplant.
The long slabs are modeled and have two slightly different textures applied, while the floor has just normal+bump maps.
The structures of the materials are pretty the same. Anyway here are some SS of both materials + a cropped version of the spec maps got from the diffuse maps. Also, as you can see from the SS, I've tuned the maps with Thea's texture tonemapping feature.

The floor:

The slabs:

@ Gubermensch: The rounded mirrors use the basic mirror mat which comes with Thea. The surfaces are modeled with Soap,skin&bubbles plugin in order to give some slight deformation. If you meant the glass-mirror above the sink, here is the mat.
Vetro specchio.mat.zip
@ cuttingedge: I've posted something about render times here in the thread.

marked001

This is all so far over my head.. .someone really needs to give me a crash course in texture-making!! Awesome stuff, love to hear how the model was built. I was wondering if those slabs were modelled.