WIP - A Parking Garage and some Workflow Insights

liam887

This is amazing work.... love the floor level decals!

hellnbak

I know less than nothing about rendering, but I like the photos of your ambitious project. Now just add a bunch of tire marks, some trash and litter, maybe some graffiti and oil puddles, and it will be perfect

In No. 7, aren't there just five lights per fixture, or am I missing something? Yeah, I probably am, but I had to ask.

HornOxx

@hellnbak said:

I know less than nothing about rendering, but I like the photos of your ambitious project. Now just add a bunch of tire marks, some trash and litter, maybe some graffiti and oil puddles, and it will be perfect
In No. 7, aren't there just five lights per fixture, or am I missing something? Yeah, I probably am, but I had to ask.

Thanks Hellnbak to get it not so very clean I actually considered tire marks. At some point it will look as you describe and hopefully will be a new order then
Next to the 5 spot lights, there is an emitter material on a rectangle face, which is also a lightsource.

hellnbak

@hornoxx said:

[ Next to the 5 spot lights, there is an emitter material on a rectangle face, which is also a lightsource.

yeah, every now and then I like to do something to remind myself how dumb I actually are.

Collage Architecture

Super cool!!

I love the color which makes these space recognizable,I think I will never lose myway when walking

mwm5053

This is really good work, level of detail in the SU model and the rendering. You mentioned the textures for the signs and I guess the parking space numbers you did your own with a photo editor?

Walt

JGA

Great presentation and colours, thanks for the tips as well.
Perhaps the numbers on the doors should favour the hinge side, to prevent them getting grubby around the handle area. Also, changing the floor colour part way down the ramp slope can cause issues for those with sight problems.

HornOxx

@collage architecture said:

...I think I will never lose my way when walking

Thanks limshigan - hopefully, because that was precisely the intention - How many times have I been looking for my car, not remembering where I had parked it In the meantime I am making a parking space photo with my mobile phone when I leave my car at the airport for example

@mwm5053 said:

...you mentioned the textures for the signs and I guess the parking space numbers you did your own with a photo editor?...

Thank You Walt - Yes all icons / signs are self created with AI, which is easier than to make these with a photoeditor. After that I have imported the ai files in PS, adapted to the import settings (e.g., 400dpi, no antialiasing etc.) Finally I received the needed JPGs or PNGs this way.
I/we created these Icons for our own because to use others is linked to copyright issues often.
Only the parking space numbers and parking space lines are created as native SU geometry. These hover a hair width above the ground. To make everything a bit more detailed (such as the cabel channels under the ceiling or the headboards with screws at the steel frames for example) was very simple, since all steel frames are component instances. In sum, all this just pretends to be detailed but this was necessary to give the scenes a more "realistic" looking touch.

@jga said:

...perhaps the numbers on the doors should favour the hinge side, to prevent them getting grubby around the handle area. Also, changing the floor colour part way down the ramp slope can cause issues for those with sight problems.

Thanks and great suggestions from You, JGA - the "grubby around the handle" thing is certainly correct - I will take that into consideration! Generally there is still very much confusion about the naming of the levels, which will mix up our suggested color coding here and there. If we are lucky, all the parking levels, which are connected by a pedestrian ramp, will have the same color coding - and if so, the pedestrian ramp will have this color also in completeness...

GMthompson

Nice did you do submittals?

duanekemp

@hornoxx said:

Edit1:
I forgot to mention that at the end of this project I could render most scenes in about 1.5 to 2 hours because I additionally hid - like the light fixtures - all the geometry, which was not necessary for the corresponding render scene... Very unfortunate and a lot of waste of time that i got this idea only at the project´s end

Always good to find this out. Always sad to discover at the end of one project. But, always great to know before the beginning of a new one.

Still made me giggle though.

faust07

A very well thought-out work and important findings....
In rendering programs, I would like to have an option to automatically hide geometry outside the camera field of view or objects completely hidden by geometry in the foreground. This is especially useful for camera panning in motion simulations, etc., as the constellation of objects is constantly changing. Of course, this is not possible when objects outside the field of view are required for reflections or shadows.