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Perhaps no one else finds the car's taillights reflected in the building irritating. It bothers you and that is enough. We all have something in our images that bother us and does not seem to even be noticed by others.
To avoid the red rearlights from the car on the buildings, I have moved him to the end of the street.
I also have increased the ISO at 400, but that was a little to much, I think.
Added a few things ( bus stop, people ) to play around with the atmosphere.
Added also the rain from the shop, but he wont't look very realistic in this moment.
I guess, with the higher ISO and to my frustration, other lights from the cars now are visible on the building.
I still try to reduce this effekt, but since my old PC need horrible time to render the picture (2-3h) it's laborious.
Hi harrykim, maybe i have found your main problem with the fog. We look from a higher position at him, but in that case the sun is over the Fog and the water in him should reflect her.
So I think you should make him less transparent and give him a nearly intransparent form.
First thing, i want to say that I love the aproach you take with this and I hope you will keep pursuein this!
I believe the toon shaders as they are coming are not really working in Iray but using some plain plastic or rubber shader you might get a good result in Iray. but then I got to say I never did anything toon. I might go and ask for some of the toon experts around the forum.
As for your fog which to me as well looks a bit like water here are some thoughts. First thing is reduce the reflection, right now i can see your clouds reflecting in the fog pane. Fog has a high specularity but no reflection, no glossiness as its made from little particles each reacting on their own with the light. This is what you want to emulate. You could use some atmospheric tool if you got one for Iray or you could use the technique I described here https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/comment/1654176/#Comment_1654176 for making atmosphere. It works the same way in Iray you just apply the Iray base shader to the plane and adjust the opacity (and make sure the refelctivity is on zero) and you can use several layers of thos, so the fog is more intesne further down.
Another thing that would make the impression of fog stronger is when there is more structure (another rice mountain, more houses) seen further down and to the distance as well. You can probabyl even have tiny people working on different terrasses or something like that.
I hope that gives you some ideas.
This has already developed nicely! I liek the dark scene, and yes the sky dome right now is too bright. you know you can tune down the light influence of the environment on your scene? Personally I#m not to fond of the articicial raindrops in the front. While the rest has depth, they are clearly onyl added later. In the link above to that tutorial in my thread I added a map at the end called rain. so you can use that sort of self made rain like the atmosphere planes. It's not as good as the rain product for iray and/or 3delight that are out there but it was used eg here
Hey @Linwelly, thank you very much for your nice words and your suggestions.
During the trial and error phase ( based on how to solve the logical problem : Why he set that Rice terrasse under water ?) I though to go the most easy way possible. Why not set the fog to horizontal, place it behind the terasse, coloure it a little bit to green, get a mood of morning fog and all is good. What I´ve got was a boring seperation of the terrasse and the rest of the scene. You can imagine why ;) . There is almost nothing physical behind the terasse. Clouds, which I need to simulate depth, made no sense anymore inside the fog, and all colore, up to the background " construct" are only dull. Good idea but does not work.
I´m currently rendering the try, @daybird suggested ( reduced opacity) but placed a second fog prop underneeth to get more substance, switched off glossiness ( though water particles are automaticaly reflective, but you teached me something new :)) , found a usable bumpmap and are optimistic. If it goes well I can think about to build a second terasse in the distance, instead of the illusion I have so far.
PS. : your rain prop looks very good. You used motion blure ? The rainbow effect was a good idea, and you even thought on the reflection on the boots, nice !
Still struggling with the same problems. To avoid light reflectings on the citybuildings, I placed different Objects in the scene. (trees, brushes, statue ect.)
I have set the enviroment to zero and lower the ISO to 130. The light you see, results from the emission shader.
I must correct some positions and light settings ( tree,heli) and the rain still looks ugly, but at least I have learned, that I can create a scene without a lightsources, only with emission shader. Is there a limit too( my craphic card only supports 8 light sources), or can I create invinity emission sources? Because now I have much more than 8 emissions objects in the scene.
I´m not sure if the current version is to bright, since you did not yet apply a background image.
You say that your tries to solve one issue leads in to the next and even more problems. In my mother language we have a word for this. It is "verschlimmbessert"
Keep cool ;)
Yo, dudes, we can all switch to german here now LOL
ups, crossposting.
Do you have TechPowerUp GPU-Z ? It is a free of charge program to check the size of your scene. What I have seen is, that there are no limits, as long the scene fits the GPU capacity
Nice
ok, the dice is cast, I name the image "FOG on the Slope" and the water problem has solved itself
Did´nt expect that result. I liked the look at about 25 min rendertime (2h08m total) but the background is ... . However, there are still options and here it is
You may call it fog, but my brain still see a water in front of my eyes...and that more then ever. *hrhr* Wer hat jetzt was verschlimmbessert :P
But I had a question about the shaders and the maps. Luckily I had posed one cityblock seperate from the other (the big in the background).
Can I copy and split the layer from the windows? The reason for this is, that I would illuminate some of the windows. Until now I only can light up all of them, or nothing.
What I would like to do is...
To create two layers and delet a few windows from the first layer. On the second layer ,I invert the selection and put an emissions shader on the layer.
Would this be possible and is it allowed to modify existing Props?
You can try using the geometry editor for that, mark the windows you want to light up with the geometry editor and create a new surface from that ( you can, once created, as well add to that surface with the geometry editor) then select that surface in the surface tab ( choose a name you can remember) and apply eg the emissive shader.
You see, we all are ride the same horse ;)
I understood your plan, but dont have the knowledge to give you an advice. On the other hand, it reminds me on a technique to hide single parts of objects even if they are not selectable from the scene tab. Geometry Editor
Found , when I searched for a solution with an obj. problem, this video tutorial:
It show just the very basics, but to remove the windows, it could bring you a step forward. And of course you can also trick a bit. Place a little primitive in front of the related windows and make this emmissive
Blast it, Grandma's back in the hospital with another UTI. Not sounding good as well, becouse when my aunt and uncle were there to check on her last night she thought he was me.
She might have to be placed in a nursing home after this, we don't know yet.
I'm sorry to hear this, Shinji, I hope things will turn to the better again. Take your time and take care!
If she call you Sam and has a smile, so what, take it, it´s adressed to you. Wish her and you all the best
So sorry to hear that Shinji. I hope everything is well with her.
Not nice to hear that Shinji. It's always hard, if someone you love, is in danger.
I wish you and your family lot of strength in this hard time.
Mh, problems, problems, problems... I had try to edit the windows in the city block 12, but it do not work.
Main problem is, that the windows are one object and I only can select them all. I had search the texture, but it is only a single window, which is copied countless times into the windows area.
Has someone a idea, how I can make it work to select single windows or implement another area with illuminated windows?
I took a look at the city block and I can see your problem as the windows of some buidlings come as one poly with a texture inside. When you switch to wireframe or wire-shaded view, you can find one or two of the buildings having separate polys for each window, those you can select with the geometry editor to create a new glowing surface. For the tall window displays the only usable thing is to male small glowing planes and place them right in front ( or dial down the opacity for the whole display by a bit and place the glowing planes inside just behind) the window
Using primitive planes and scaling to fit the windows is what I would suggest as well. That way you can control which windows you "light".
It is just an idea, in case you cannot continue with your plan A.
What I would try, is to increase the bump of the building allot to get the best contrast to the window wall possible. Would make or keep the reflection level of the window wall high and imitate ( because I dont have none ) two or more helicopter light . You know it from movies. No one remember afterwards if there was light behind the windows. Because the reflection of the helicopter light on the building, respectively on the windows is much more interesting.
Mhh does not seem to function. I have made a primitive and scale it, but the real problem is again the shader from the dystopia city block.How we can see in the testrender, there are ugly reflections from the emissive windows on the other buildings.
Don't know how I can avoid this. Maybe I should render the Tower seperately, and implement him later in gimp, but I had the bad feeling, I'm to stupid, to get it right.
Some things are tricky to figure out. You can use a technique that works great with one set and will not work, no matter how hard you try to, on another set.
The dial you want to find for all surfaces you don't want the reflect the lights so much is the glossy layered weight, just dial that to 0 and you should be fine
But then, I losing the reflection on the street ^^
Edit: Wohoo, I think I did it...I do render the tower alone and so I could set the setting to a pleasant level. I will try to put the whole scene together and present the result.
Good thing you found a way, but to respond to your answer, the street is a different surface, do you know the surface selection tool in you vewport? Its like a hand of three cards in different shades spread out. when you choose that tool you can select exactly the surface you want, switch to the surcae tab and that surface is highlighted, so you can choose where you want to get rid of the glossy surface and where not.
Ok, I don't finish the render, but I want you all show the result of my trys.
The light may be a little to much and I'm not shure, if I should erase the lighten building on the uper right side, but I think, I'm on the right way. :)
That looks wonderful. Just like a city at night. Good job.