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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited September 2016

    A couple more Iray renders using Ken Gililand's new Sagebrush Habitat

    First one Sun>Sky only

    Second with HDRI

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    I see the lizard scampered off in the second one....

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    got too hot

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Been a long time since I kicked back and made something fun. Two days work. Redid a lot of displacement maps and made normal maps from the bumps for a lot of the external surfaces of the building. Redid every surface in line with what I feel is better. Man even some plants had Iray emissive settings by the default Iray preset. I hate paying good money for bad surfaces settings. They should employ someone like me too look them over so they look their best from the off. Moan over. J

    I could have used Ultrascatter but to be honest I haven’t learnt how to use it so this scene took just over 12 GB of RAM to render. 5 and half at rest.

     

    Lit by HDRI only. Small amount of post, a little more saturation and a boarder. J

    Items used

    Raven Court http://www.daz3d.com/3-raven-court

    Raven Court Expansion 1 http://www.daz3d.com/3-raven-court-expansion-1

    Toadstool Lane http://www.daz3d.com/5-toadstool-lane

    Fern Lake http://www.daz3d.com/fern-lake

    Japanese Maples http://www.daz3d.com/japanese-maples

    Nature - Trees Pack 2 http://www.daz3d.com/nature-trees-pack-2

    Nature - Plants Pack 1 http://www.daz3d.com/nature-plants-pack-1

    Skies of iRadiance - Sunny Sky HDRIs for Iray http://www.daz3d.com/skies-of-iradiance-sunny-sky-hdris-for-iray

    Teo and Reipus by Nursoda

    I mixed The base Raven Court Wall and Chimney textures and kept the rest from the Toadstool Lane textures set. I retextured the ground too.

    Testing Iray displacement and I got to say given the Raven Courts age it stood up to being subdivided by the shader sub-d only, level 4. 

    I titled it "I can smell cake"

     

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  • TabascoJackTabascoJack Posts: 865

    Really well done.  Excellent job on the retexturings.

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,956

    Turned out very nice! I like the strange chap coming home there

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thank you Tabsco and Linwelly

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    as the tile of this thread says....

     

    hung up on realism, struggle to find the correct surface settings...I now adjust to what looks nice, real or not...I don't care about perfection anymore until I have too. :) 

     

    Iray Tone Mapping...I only use EV, Tone Mapping is only really good for matching photos or when using realistic light settings. Again I do what looks nice. :) 

     

    I am still hung up on realism because it is a personal challenge and not to say "look how cool am I". :) But I am cool. I just felt my creative juices were being stifled by puzzling over small details and in most cases it didn't matter. 

  • LinwellyLinwelly Posts: 5,956

    then enjoy your freedom from realism, it will be interesting to see what you come up with

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    I would say freedom just an alternative reality. :) My muse is on holiday at the moment. I think that happens when doing this for too long. I really want to do something really artistic and something I have never done. Something out of my comfort zone again. Haven't pushed myslef in so long.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,153

    Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    or everything to gain

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    Really like what you did with that. Its actually one of my favorite houses/scenes and I have rendered it only once lol.  You are inspiring me to do to another!

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thanks Ice...been a while since I had so much fun making an image. 

  • LianaLiana Posts: 1,035

    I have been reading the thread and your tutorials. I hope to put them to good use. Thanks for sharing. :)

     

    I love the last image of the cottage. The textures turned out great. I think tweaking them to makethem turn out good using whatever render engine is the hardest part.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    My pleasure Liana

    From the first ever image I made in DS I have continually messed about with surfaces. That extended to a lot more software which I think gave me a better understanding on tweaking surfaces in general. I still find lighting a challenge in any engine, yes even Iray. But it has gotten easier over the years I admit.  In my opinion Surfaces go hand in hand with Light, get them both right and with good composition the result should be good.

  • LianaLiana Posts: 1,035
    edited December 2016

    :) 

    I have to admit I have done some messing with textures also from my first render. I had very little idea at the time what I was doing in Daz. haha.  Lighting is a struggle for me. I have tried lights that come with scenes, end up disliking them, and trying my own set-up from stuff I have read in the forums. I will just keep plugging away. Thanks!

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Yeah lighting is the biggest hurdle I find. It does help to understand how light works in the real world and faking each aspect in 3DL. Iray not such a problem. 

     

    http://www.daz3d.com/balneae Iray with HDRI Postwork Photoshop Lightroom. 

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  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    That's really beautiful and serene.

  • TabascoJackTabascoJack Posts: 865

    Very nice scene, Pete.

  • LianaLiana Posts: 1,035

    Lovely scene :)

     

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thanks folks. I do love this set. Here is another angle with more blue added to the whole scene in post.

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634
    edited February 2017

    make for a good jigsaw Hummm how big do I need to render it for a good sized jigsaw...time to Google. :)

     

    5724 x 3793

    26.5 x 17 inches 2000 piece £33.00 I bet I can find it cheaper. :)

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  • KnittingmommyKnittingmommy Posts: 8,191

    Nice to see you posting again, Szark!  I love what you did with Balneae!  Really nice.

  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    Thank you, nice to be rendering again.

     

  • IceDragonArtIceDragonArt Posts: 12,548

    That would make an amazing puzzle

  • LianaLiana Posts: 1,035

    I just really like that scene :) I am spending more time modeling and learning about Daz in general.

  • SaphirewildSaphirewild Posts: 6,669

    I think Szark does amazing renders always!!!

    I also think it would make an amazing puzzle!!!

  • dHandledHandle Posts: 617
    edited February 2017

    Hey Pete!!  Nice to see you're back!

    Sorry...I missed this thread last week.  I've been busy for the past 2 weeks trying to get my new computer system up and running.   (It didn't even cost me a my motorcycle!  Just my tax refund...)  Hopefully, Iray renders won't take a week now...

    I've been looking at promo images of products I like, and wondering if I can at least make something close.  I've been working on Stonemason's Generic Sci Fi Corridor in 3DL in another thread (Commons) just trying to make it look half decent.

    That Balneae render is amazing!  Great work!  Very realistic, which is my favorite. I think I'm going to get that set, or see if I have something similar, and try to render up a masterpiece. 

    Thanks for the inspiration! (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?)

    smiley

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  • SzarkSzark Posts: 10,634

    hey dHandle nice to hear from you.

     

    For the record I have never been away just busy working, freelancing. Do I miss making images...you bet and I have so many more ideas these days. Like to old days where I was pushing myself toward a more artistic colourful output but then along came Iray and now my whole world revolves around it. I got gifted Vue 2014 Complete and only used it once which bugs the hell out of me. But I am happy that I am still growing, though in a different direction these days.

     

    Oh mate didn't cost you your bike...awesome news that is dude. 

     

    Stonemason is a hard act to follow IMHO but not something to make you shy away from but inspire to be so. I will I had the time to play more.

     

    Thanks to the render comments everyone. Like I said on my dA page Jack did make it easier with making an awesome set.

     

    Yeah man imitate away...we are all influenced by others, though many just don't know it...well some of us do. :) Some folks think I like showing off with my thread but the truth is it was suggested by another that I do so and I hope to inspire even though I personally I don't consider myself a good renderer/artist. No matter what others say that is how I feel as I have a vision in my head and it never comes out in that way.

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