@ntxdave said in Rayscaper Sample Model Download:
@massimo I do not see the Upload file link on my reply page.
I tried to drag a file into the empty space and I got an error message that said I did not have enough privileges. So there is no way I can upload a file.
I have never seen this problem before.
This is definitely strange since you have a reputation even higher than mine... Perhaps Rich or Gabor may chime in with an explanation.
@ntxdave said in Rayscaper Sample Model Download:
@ntxdave How do you upload a file/skp model?
You mean here on the forum? If so, this doesn't work for you?
You can also drag & drop the file in the blank area where you write the reply I guess.
Moved to plugins section as requested.
@Rich-O-Brien Ok, maybe a suggestion for the next release then.
Rich's ones are good advices. Even if the best HDRIs, for example P.Guthrie's and CGSource's ones just to name two, don't need any extra sun because produce nice shadows, most of them need a bit of boost.
Does Rayscaper have something like this however?
I mean that you can move the sun in the physical sky until it will match the one in the HDRI. Because if not would be really difficult to align the two suns and this could lead to a fake result.
@raptorscream Hi, this is a normal behaviour for RoundCorner in some circumstances. For example when you bevel coplanar edges that are a closed loop or part of it. I guess because the plugin somehow "erases" and then "draws" again some lines in the process. This causes Sketchup to automatically generate a face.
Just select and delete the unwanted surface.
It depends on what you want in the corners. If you don't need something too polished you can also use this plugin:
https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/106330/plugin-lines-to-tubes#p88592
It will work in one go: select all the lines and launch the plugin.
@TIG Yep, but it is not accessible via main categories menu. It is the same with the old moderators section of the forum, you can only reach it using the search feature finding some post you made on it.
Already told that to Rich.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
I'm gonna try this in Rayscaper.
Good, and then share the results please. It's always nice to see these experiments. I recommend you to choose a photo of the real thing and then to try to mimic it.
Here, for example, you have a comparison between reality (first pic) and render (second pic).
The render was made long time ago and it's one of a set of images I made of the "Veliero" bookcase by Franco Albini.
https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/143370/bookcase-veliero
In this case, however, the story was way more complicated because the model was more articulated and also some plastic thin film between the two glass panels was involved. So, if I remember well, I had to use also Thea's container feature. I achieved the result with trials and errors by working on the model and materials at the same time.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
Thanks for sharing that.
You're welcome.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
The glass in the windows is it a solid volume or 2 planes? It is incredibly accurate in terms of how it is reflecting. There's more at play rather than a simple glass shader.
I modeled the windows more or less like the real things. Well, of course, more schematic. So there are two glass panels with thickness and with a cavity between them.
Here you have a rough section in SU of the big windows next to a floor slab.
The material is a thin film glass with a slight blue-green tint in the trasmittance slot and a very slight and enlarged perlin noise procedural as a bump map in order to simulate some imperceptible distortion.
Here you have a SS of the material.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
Thea really is a good engine.
Indeed and, regarding materials, I think that glass and metals is where Thea really excels.
"A lot of us struggle with photorealism in our own renders but I guess it's a gradual process."
Indeed. What we need to understand is that before the "how" there is the "what".
What I mean is that we must learn to see and decide what we want to represent. How to do it comes later and is somehow easier.
This is why taking seriously photographs helps a lot in my opinion.
@nickchun Thanks.
"Yes, abandoned by the builders first."
Do you mean that the house seems unfinished? If so I agree with you.
After all this is part of the charm of spaces like those.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
If you jump between real world shots and your renders its nuts!
Also this was maybe the first time that I started by founding a good post-pro process first and then, after, by tuning everything (materials, lighting etc.) in order to accomplish that.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
For some reason I am drawn to the material. So much so I ended up look for real world interior shots. My first thought was some type of galvanised steel.
if you mean the low wall at the right of the stair actually should be an enameled wall. The stairs are concrete and those little strips at the end of the steps should be some kind of silicon I guess.
It was not easy at all to manage the lighting in those two shots with the stairs though.
@Rich-O-Brien said in House with one wall:
You actually mimicked camera positions of photographs!
Indeed, just as I wrote.
if you have some good images to look at its very useful trying to reproduce them In order to tune lighting and materials. You can then, if you like, try some different shots.
The main problem of those nice images is that they are clearly post-produced so non so easy to understand how real things are.
