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    • K Offline
      kwistenbiebel
      last edited by kwistenbiebel

      A colleague architect and friend asked me to render his design.
      I spent a day (almost)on the modeling an texturing part.
      It took several evenings (on and off) to get the renderings. As usual I spend too much time on these things 😄.

      Cheers,
      Kwistenbiebel

      Fry Render versions:

      http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small1.jpg

      http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small2.jpg

      http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small3.jpg

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        kwistenbiebel
        last edited by

        A Maxwell version:

        http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small4.jpg

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          kwistenbiebel
          last edited by

          Another Maxwell image:

          http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small5.jpg

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            kwistenbiebel
            last edited by

            And a Podium rendering:

            http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small7.jpg

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            • K Offline
              kwistenbiebel
              last edited by

              Maxwell again 😄

              http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small8.jpg

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                kwistenbiebel
                last edited by

                Maxwell:

                http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small9.jpg

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                • K Offline
                  kwistenbiebel
                  last edited by

                  ....A quick Vray try:

                  http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small10.jpg

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                    kwistenbiebel
                    last edited by

                    ....And a last one (Maxwell).
                    I hope the guy is happy with it.

                    http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small12jpg.jpg

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                    • GaieusG Offline
                      Gaieus
                      last edited by

                      Just perfect. No wonder I'm glad you have finally registered here!
                      😄

                      Gai...

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                      • A Offline
                        andeciuala
                        last edited by

                        i really liked it, very nice and clean renders, i didn't know about that fry render. Congratulations! 😲

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                        • thomthomT Offline
                          thomthom
                          last edited by

                          Nice renders!
                          Which of the render engines did you feel fitted best for the job?

                          Thomas Thomassen — SketchUp Monkey & Coding addict
                          List of my plugins and link to the CookieWare fund

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                          • FrederikF Offline
                            Frederik
                            last edited by

                            @thomthom said:

                            Nice renders!
                            Which of the render engines did you feel fitted best for the job?

                            I was going to ask the exact same question... 😄

                            Cheers
                            Kim Frederik

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                              Edson
                              last edited by

                              congratulations to both of you. very good renders and very interesting project. i am sure your friend must have been pleased by your renders.

                              edson mahfuz, architect| porto alegre • brasil
                              http://www.mahfuz.arq.br

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                                kwistenbiebel
                                last edited by

                                @frederik said:

                                @thomthom said:

                                Nice renders!
                                Which of the render engines did you feel fitted best for the job?

                                I was going to ask the exact same question... 😄

                                First, thanks for those comments!.

                                The question you pose is a dificult one.
                                For exteriors I prefer the unbiased solutions (Maxwell and Fry), but they perform poorly for interiors when you consider the Render times (count in days for an indirect lit interior).
                                On the other hand, the so called 'biased' engines (Podium, Vray) perform better in terms of speed for interiors but (sometimes) need a bit more tweaking (photoshop) to obtain comparable realism.

                                So to me, there is no real winner here.

                                The magic solution to me would be to have a 'hybrid' render engine that calculates an unbiased solution ('brute force'methods like MLT and all sorts of pathtracing) with a little help of some 'biased' code to clean difficult indirect lit parts.
                                The only engine,capable of doing something hybrid like that for the moment, are certain engine presets in Vray , but it is more a biased solution (like Irrmap or light cache) with a little 'unbiased' added ( 'QMC', also called 'Brute force').

                                Let's see what the future brings.😉

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                                  marked001
                                  last edited by

                                  these are awesome, kwisten.. i'm having a tough time deciding which versions i like best 😄 i'm kind of leaning towards fryrender i think...

                                  http://www.revision21vis.com

                                  instagram: revi21on

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                                    kwistenbiebel
                                    last edited by

                                    Thanks Marked 😄

                                    I must admit I had to level light/color in Maxwell because of the strange orange/red overcast the physical sky seems to produce in 1.5.
                                    I don't know about the new update 1.6 that has just been released today.

                                    Fryrenders Physical sky doesn't seem to have that colorcast...but at the risk of being dull?
                                    I am not sure. Chema (developer of Fry) announced that upcoming 0.9 version will have improved colors for their physical sky...

                                    Vray has a really nice color bleeding going on with their sky system.
                                    However, for exterior shots, renderings can easily look washed out and need some leveling in post.

                                    Oh well, nothing is perfect 😄

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                                      kwistenbiebel
                                      last edited by

                                      Thanks Edson.

                                      Just to point out one of the handicaps of the unbiased render engines: you can still see some noise on the interior walls, while this image has been cooking for more than 10 hours. (the exterior parts were clean already after 1 hour though).

                                      http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r3/kwistenbiebel1/small13.jpg

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                                      • FrederikF Offline
                                        Frederik
                                        last edited by

                                        @kwistenbiebel said:

                                        So to me, there is no real winner here.

                                        The magic solution to me would be to have a 'hybrid' render engine that calculates an unbiased solution ('brute force'methods like MLT and all sorts of pathtracing) with a little help of some 'biased' code to clean difficult indirect lit parts.

                                        😄 😆
                                        Well... What can I say... But I'm sure that you're going to be pleased with next KT2008 release... 😉

                                        @kwistenbiebel said:

                                        Let's see what the future brings.😉

                                        My lips are
                                        http://www.kerkythea.net//users/Frederik/Anim-Icons/Lips-sealed.gif
                                        ...

                                        Cheers
                                        Kim Frederik

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                                        • K Offline
                                          kwistenbiebel
                                          last edited by

                                          Hi Frederick,

                                          You make me curious 😄
                                          I know Indigo has a 'hybrid' option, but it is a mix of different 'unbiased' calculations (PPT+ MLT, BiPT + MLT, etc...) so it's actually adding 'slow' to 'not so slow' 😄 (I think Indigo is a good render engine BTW)

                                          However, the mix of 'biased' + 'unbiased' I only saw (sort of) in Vray...
                                          Are you indicating that Kerkythea will go that route?
                                          Sounds interesting...

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                                            ilay7k
                                            last edited by

                                            hello!
                                            I like maxwell tests...
                                            So have you try new MR 1.6 + 1.1 skp-exporter?
                                            I look at plugins_improv_bug.doc

                                            @unknownuser said:

                                            SketchUp toolbar was implemented for Maxwell SketchUp tools
                                            All the cameras for all the SketchUp pages are exported to the Maxwell MXS file as inactive cameras for possible later use in Maxwell Studio.
                                            Full support for SketchUp texture manipulation added – texture rotation, skewed textures, and photo-manipulated textures are supported.
                                            Maxwell Command Line parameters can be entered directly in the SketchUp dialog
                                            Image search path support was implemented into the SketchUp export dialog - it is now possible to specify the path for missing textures.
                                            Ruby dialogs were rewritten using the Maxwell Render color scheme
                                            Visible Render area indicator was added to the Ruby script
                                            Pick focal length and Show render area were integrated in the camera dialog
                                            Protect geometry and Low priority switches were added to the export dialog
                                            Reset all options in the export dialog was implemented
                                            Fixes:
                                            GMT offset was wrong on OSX Intel machines - fixed.
                                            Materials were updated to use the new internal material mechanisms
                                            Default tone mapping options is set properly now
                                            MXI export switch works properly again
                                            Film width/height controls were added back to camera dialog
                                            Entities with different SketchUp texture clones were exported as a single object - fixed.

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