Whoops having a dumb moment

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That looks abit more like it. Tonight or this afternoon Ill render it again and see if chnging the IR settings helps. Otherwise I'll post all my settings.

Im using the latest Vray.
The last render I did had the RAM usage up at 3.24 gb, I was holding my breath waiting for it to crash but it didnt.

Cheers mate

Hi Thom

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Files size is 22.5mb
The largest material is the concrete driveway at 2550x3500 pixels at 2.89mb. Which is abit big but it is a large area.

Here is the image at 1024x768

The IR setting for this are -4, -1. When I rendered at 3000x2250 and left the IR settings the same. So tonight I'll changeit to -6, -3.

Thnaks again Thom your a star. I'll render this tonight and let you know how I get on.

@unknownuser said:

like it. nice vibe ...

ware did you find the car and plants? I would change the mist-lights on the car.. other than that it looks very nice.

could you tell something about the lights used in the house to aluminate it...?

best,

Hi ya mate

The car comes from the warehouse here's the link
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=36d0591781587d9fb1bb46d2556ba67d&prevstart=0
The plants are Solos Garden collection heres the link
http://solosplace.com/3Dgarden.aspx
Well worth the small amount of money. I use it in all my exterior renders. Thanks PETE

The Lighting on the inside are omni lights. Set to 18000 Scalar, Colour is R255 G225 B172, I don't think they are quite the right colour, but might be a good base to start with.

I'd like to model the fog lights on the car, but ran out of time. I should do that for future projects.

To everyone else
Thanks for all your compliments, always mean alot.

Also there is no displacement. Im only using bump on the stacked brick.

I have been using Vray for about a year now to present my designs to my clients.

The more I use it the more I love it. But also realize its limitations due to SU.

My client wants to print a 1.2m x 2m advertising sign. Which means I would have to have a render output of 3600 x 6000 pixels or more. (please correct me if Im way off). I am having major problems with SU crashing at anything above 2048 x 1536. This is also using the render to VrImage method.

I realize that SU crashes because of its Ram use limits. So I cant quite understand how people use Vray to render any SU file above 25mb at large res.

As soon as I press render I painfully watch the Ram usage go up to 3ish gb then crash. Is there something Im missing, or doing wrong?

How do other people work around this problem?

Im using:

-The latest Vray
-SU 7 pro
-Win 7 prof 64bit
-i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67Ghz
-6gb Dominator Ram

Thanks for any help

Hi all

Would love you to pick this apart for me. This is my first night scene using Vray.
The job has been handed to the client already. But would like to perfect for my own
portfolio.

Design was mine but had heavy restrictions on size/materials/build ability

New image, Still not sure about the sky. Actually think I like the old skey image better.

@xrok1 said:

WOW! besides the light problem that looks like a fantastic render. can't wait to see it completed.

Thanks. Will post soon. The job is due today. Better get cracking.

@thomthom said:

Is it by any change trapped inside some geometry?

The graphical representation of the omni-light is misleading - it is not a sphere at all. It's simply light emitted from a single point in the centre of that sphere object.
So if that centre point is inside your plant geometry it'll never be seen.

You are so right, very well explained. Thanks again Thom

Ok here we go

Im having probelms with omni lights
As you can see in the render I have posted. The omni lights inside the building work.
I took the same omni lights out of the building and place them over the garden lights in the bottom left corner.
But nothing happens]!!!!!!
Im sure Im missing something really simple. But just cant figure it out.

This is my first exterior using lights.

Im using the latest Vray

Thnks for any help

WOW 6hr. You should be able to get much better results in minutes.

Yes you must be doing something wrong. Vray is a challenge to begin with. We all had to go through that hard learning process. I'm no expert but I'll tell you how I started.

First visit http://forum.asgvis.com/index.php?action=forum This is the best place to get tips and tricks on how to achieve good results.

There are so many different setting you can play with which will alter your render time. I started of downloading visopts (render settings) which you will find on ASGvis web site. A great visopt i tend to use is TEOFAS.visopt

It gives great interior results and renders fast. Take your time to look at the settings and with time tweak them for different results.

I have started to slowly get my head around Vray by studying other peoples visopts and doing the tutorials on the ASGvis website.

Good luck and keep asking questions, its how you get answers

WOW

Wish you had done this in Vray so you could help me achieve the same results.

I never commented on your last image. Wich I thought was superb badass

Awsome Richard.

Is the brick material one of the Australbricksrange. If so what type of brick is it?

@fymoro said:

Wow really cool Jonathan, congrats... I think that the 4min to understand what the f...k is going on, Was the time SU send the information to Vray...

So true Fred. Sorry for the language under huge pressure at work. But no excuse for toilet talk.

Arrrrrrrrrrrrr Im so busy at work and all I want to do is play with this pluggin.
This is an old scene I did ages ago. Looks alot better with FUR
Only PS was the really bad smoke.

Rendered in Vray. It took about 4min for Vray to figure out wat the F@#K was going on, then 2mins to render.

@cadmunkey said:

Love it Jonathan, a job well done. How long for rendering time, it looks real clean.

Thanks Cadmunkey. The render time was 41mins for the interior and 5mins for the trees which I then compiled in PS. Thats why I have started to love Vray. Get the right setting and it cranks. There are alot of material all with very high settings.

@frederik said:

Bravo... Excellent render...!!
What render app did you use...??

To render I used Vray. I had to render two separate images. I had to render the interior, then secondly the trees for the exterior. I have find this an easier and quicker method. I then compiled in PS.
@olishea said:

looks like vray. bloody beauty holmes. stunning. so is this

just sunlight? wow

the only thing i could possibly say is just get the verticals vertical...they're only slightly off and would take 1 minute to correct. you really notice it when you place a few images together on a drawing sheet

Cheers Oli.
Your right I'll change the verticals and yes the only lighting was the sun.

@solo said:

Jonathan, that's an awesome render, well done mate.

I think you hit the mood just right.

The only thing that caught my eye was the shadows filtering in do not include vegetation, obviously you added it in post edit right?

Quite right Pete, like I said before. The trees were rendered separately. I didn't render them all in one go, because I have found that the RAM usage goes beyond SU's capabilities forcing a crash, Maybe i COULD LOWER THE TREE LEVEL SO THAT IT LOOKS LIKE THE SUN POURS OVER THEM.(whoops didn't mean to shout) cheers for the advice.

Hi all

This is a 4 bedroom home of 3. The client wanted something moody and dramatic. I havent done many interior renders before. So found this quite hard. Tried to go for an early morning feel.

Would love to hear would you think. All crits welcome

WOW WOW WOW Oli thats fantastic. How far you have come. Thats one impressive Portfolio's
Want to make me one.

oohhhhhhhh my head hurts

WOW

Thank you all for your in depth views.
I suppose I just have to get out there and try some demo's

Hi all

But here's my story

I'm a self employed Architectural designer who works on new/alterations to Houses and small commercial buildings. I have been working on Sketchup for design and then Autocad 2005 Lt for the construction documentation. I'm so so over using Autocad 2005 Lt and tend to not enjoy the later part of jobs because of it. I don't enjoy the fact I feel I would be just as fast to hand draw, except when it comes to making changes. I'm not the fastest cad operator, but feel this maybe down to really not feeling any enjoyment out of using it. Unlike Sketchup

I think its time to upgrade. I have alot of drafting work to do the year. I'm looking at a reasonable package from Archicad called Start Edition. Which is half the price of the full version. I'm interested at BIM. The idea of changing a note on the floor plan and it being changed on any corresponding elevations, section etc sounds to good to be true. What I'm looking for is, something which is going to speed my productivity, and an enjoyable software to work with.

My questions are to anyone whom may have experience in this.

-Does it take long to learn (how long is a piece of string) I'd like to hear how you found it
-Also did it take a while to go from Drafting in 3d compared to 2d (Autocad Lt)
-Is BIM all that its cracked up to be for a person who works for himself.

I will try the demo but would like to hear any advice before investing lots of time I don't have doing that.

If I am going to upgrade I would only look at Archicad, Revit, Vectorworks and Autocad. Because all the major Arch companies work with these. So if I every need to apply for a job at a company I will have the know how.
Any advice is welcomed.

Regards
Jonathan