Twin Cabins

[glorybound]

This is the interior of an exterior I posted a while back. I am waiting for exterior photos from the client. What you see now is an HDRI in V-Ray's Env slot and for the light, I added V-Ray planes in each window with a sky blue color. Render times were around 15 minutes. These will turn into animation, so good render times are critical.

[glorybound]

Here is the exterior

[glorybound]

Some bathroom shots. They are dark, but I left it so the client can see; it'll probably really be dark without beefing up the lighting.

[fixeighted]

Good looking exterior - lots of grain but I quite like that.
I personally am liking the mood/lighting of the bathroom shots and I feel like the overexposed exterior in the first is the one that is balanced best, as it feels a little too bright in the other shots.
Re. the light planes; I was under the impression that with the adaptive dome light there is now no need for them, so you might save more time by not using them....possibly....don't quote me

[glorybound]

Shooting towards the windows is a pain! I don't usually use the V-Ray Sun/Sky because the Sun is always way too bright, but it has been a while since I tried it, so maybe I'll try it again with auto exposure. I think shooting towards the windows and autoexposure might be an issue. I started off lighting my scene with an HDRI, but the render times were too high, but it looked a lot better.

[fixeighted]

With a scene recently I was using an hdr with autoexposure and it was tough balancing stuff, as the auto does weird things to the hdri meaning I had to tweak multipliers strangely iirc....like .01 or something, to stop stuff completely blowing out.
I may have resorted to using posting the background back in tbh...

[MarkoStojkovic]

Very nice exterior shot Bobby, I like the lighting. It gives an impression of a real sunlight image. The only thing that bothers me is the tree in the foreground plane (upper-right corner).
The tree looks very bad and it simply ruins the good image. Maybe you should consider to replace it with a photo reference in Photoshop (you can still use this tree as a reference), or replace it with a better 3D tree.
As for the interiors, lighting is very nice. Did you use Vray planes as skylight portals or regular lights?

[flino2004]

Good looking exterior, boring interior (design)

[glorybound]

Here is the interior with an HDRI. I rendered it overnight, so I am not sure how long it took to render. The VFB shows the glare calc time and not the render time

[glorybound]

I forgot to mention. I rendered it using hybrid render. I got errors, but only for my Walls&Tiles material, which was okay. I expected to see tons more, like in the earlier days.

[Morne]

Did you use a LUT?

[glorybound]

Not on the last kitchen one

[glorybound]

Here is the living room with the new HDRI using GPU/hybrid - 4K in an hour!

[glorybound]

Bedrooms with new HDRI. I don't know why the HDRI is rendering so bad out the windows. I just checked the HDRI is extremely high-resolution and should perfect. Any clues? These are done with GPU.

[fixeighted]

Where is it from? The hdr I mean...