My fore into Arch Viz

[Trapezium]

I've decided to pursue working with VRay for what it has become very famous for, Great Arch Viz lighting studies As I do not have access to blueprints or CAD data, I've decided to stick with more modern styles taken from photographs. Thanks for the help so far Rerender

As many others, I would like to become familiar enough with lighting and image correction that I will end up with a few lighting setups that can be duplicated, with slight modifications, for specific types of scenes. I've been following some techniques on this forum lately that give very good results and based on some assumptions of my own I've started to form a few methods that I think will prove reusable.

Here is my first true attempt focusing on certain dilemmas, primarily a combination of interior and exterior lighting.

Please let me know what you think and any C&C are welcome to help improve my skills.

This is an initial render using the new PPT (Progressive Path Tracing) technique.


Here I've taken the saved Light Cache and rerendered with a color corrected map for the stone.


The final Photoshop corrected image. ( may have lost some of the effect with this one but I like the colors a little better.)


The reason I changed the stone map after calculating the Light Cache is because I was attempting to recreate a fake of the SSS effect which is a component of this type of stone. From the reference photograph it is very obvious that the sun is lighting the stone walls in this manner.

BTW, is it "Arch Viz" or "Arch Vis"? Maybe I've been calling it Arch Viz this whole time due to the software Viz

--Jon

[natty]

Very nice image's ...well done .. the second is the best colour correction in my opinion.. can you show the reference image .. i know you did post it somewhere but it would be nice to see here. .. great Job Jon

[Trapezium]

Thanks

You know... I think your right, the second is a little more interesting.

Here's the original (My first stone may match it a little better but I thought a less saturated stone looked better than what was on the actual building.)



Any idea what the stone is and I see no apparent seams on the walls so not sure how it was constructed. I'm still working on a few details and then I want to try and populate some sort of a living room and kitchen to the left and see if I can produce a little flythrough.

--Jon

[jacksc02]

Good work Jon!

I really like the PPT image, i think the warmer colours look better for the architectural style, the cooler white looks a little sterile.

Keep up the great work!

[percydaman]

Great job. I liked the second image better for its color before I even saw the stock image. I would go with it personally.

[natty]

Hi Jon

Looks to me to be a polished Lime stone where it looks flat in some places and polished in others .. that is quite typical to polished lime stone.


http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?im...lr%3D%26sa%3DG

sorry about the link ... lololol ... nice

[Pixelperfectg]

Nice work! I guess I'm just a "PPT" freak...but I like the original PPT render best.

[chris-x//]

Really good work and nice textures.congrats

[zuliban]

really nice i would use for floor a shellac to make that glossy effect

[Trapezium]

Thanks all, I'm rendering a high res overnight but I'll keep plugin' away after that.

Zuli, thanks for the tip I think your absolutely right

--Jon

[jujubee]

it looks great - that's awesome for a first try at arch!

[Trapezium]

Thanks

I did a piece in Lightscape years ago and I made a peasant house and a busted up castle a while back but this is really the first with a focus like this. Still a long ways to go though

--Jon

[Gijs]

Nice Jon,

I'd vote for the second one too.

What I noticed in my own tests and in your test as well is the problematic AA in bright areas (PPT-image)

[cpnichols]

Jon... a few things... First, great job, great lighting. Second, it may be limestone, but it may also be Travertine. Travertine can come in large sizes and is light enough to put on walls. If you have been to the Getty, you would see it everywhere. Also, I think the texture of the stone could be much smaller (the large waves makes the space look small), and could be less contrasted.

[Trapezium]

Thanks so much for all the support ya'll

Sorry for the late response, I had to take a few days to start learning some new software. I think I'm going to move on to another piece and call this one done for now. I'll come back later to work more on all the great suggestions and try to do another room or two.

Adjusted the lighting and started on the materials in this one but here's the final (for now)



--Jon