First Posts - W.I.P.

[mresailor]

Well, here goes nothing.... Red or Green?? This is actually my own house. I am in the process of renovating it now. The last image is the actual house... c/c on the images as well as the design...(p.s. I only rendered these out at 640X480 as tests - hey cut me some slack! I am doing all these on an "off the shelf" HP laptop!)

[mresailor]

Are you kidding me? Over 300 views and not one comment? Natty? DaElf? Percydaman? Clifton Santiago? DaForce? Anyone?

[DaForce]

You rang

Well personally I wouldnt choose either of those 2 colors, it seems far to bright and candy apple-ish (if that makes sense)

Perhaps a terracotta orange/brown, or maybe ust the same color as the top roof??

[nvanherpt]

if i had to choose i'd say red. it looks like it will be a hugh improvement, renovating on this scale is always awesome.

the open room outback looks cool, i like it, but is the design inkeeping with the rest?

i think the veranda will be cool, used to have one in the house where i grew up, we had a californian bungalow in good old NZ. it looks a little strange/top heavy without the posts perhaps?

i'm not a fan of pokey little windows, especially living in Britian - is it warm or cold where you are? i prefer to get as much sun/light coming into my home as possible.

imagewise are you using GI? the colours look a little bright.

hope you don't take offense to any of that?

[Clifton Santiago]

I'm seeing dead links...

[nvanherpt]

refresh...

[natty]

hi

what is your light set up and vray settings? .. looks like you are trying to force light bounce too much. Red or green mmmmmm ... probably Green.

[dlparisi]

Looks pretty good design wise but a couple of things stick out to me:

-The exposed trusses (kingposts, etc) at the gable ends seem a little overscaled, also the smaller one blocks the window an awful lot. Not that its bad to have it in front but it seems that looking though that window you'll see a little bit of sky with a lot of truss and soffit.
-It also looks like you may have some structural problems: the large overhang on the porch roof has no visible means of support (either posts or a suitable cantilever back into the house). Also the structure above the indoor/outdoor area off the patio really appears to be floating. I see a small column at the balcony, but that's about it-I think it will need something more substantial. It also looks a little funny having this solid, traditional mass hovering above a glassed in area. It's definitely a nice move but I'm not sure it fits into the style of this house.
-As DaForce suggested, maybe a differ color for the metal roofing is more appropriate. Not to go all grey, but maybe a weathered zinc, copper or something similar might fit in better. Maybe just shingles. The red door seems OK but the red railing is a bit much.

Modeling looks pretty good, rendering is OK. Your bounced light levels or something looks weird though. White areas that should be in shadow, such as under the eaves, are nearly the same brightness as the fascias. Is Max's autoexposure option (i.e. logarithmic) checked? (it shouldn't be) What are your color mapping options set at? Another option might be to try lowering your secondary bounce level to something like .75 or so.

[mresailor]

WOW! Thanks everyone. I will try to explain as much as I can, but if I missed something - sorry.

As for the light set up - I will sumbit a screen shot or two in the next post..

As for the rear patio - open living room idea:
Basically, I have to start off by saying that I am more of a contemporary/modernist type - but my wife is a little more conservative to say the least. So in the front of the house you get the typical old farmhouse look, while in the back I was allowed to have a little more "fun." The post under the rear deck is really all I need to hold up the second level. I've got a double 24" LVL floor system that spans from the main part of the house (back near the porch) out to this post. The idea was to 1. allow as much natural light into the space as possible - getting it as deep into the house as I can and 2. to create the illusion that the second level was cantalevered out that far (the whole mixing of indoor/outdoor space thing.) This relates to the wrap around porch not having any posts as well. There are a series of open web "trusses" under it that will hold it up and tie it back into the house. I thought that it would be kinda cool.. and quite honestly, some of the posts that I put in there just didn't really hit me as being all that great. I agree about the red railing - I am probably going to do white on those.
As for the trusses (kingposts,.etc) over the window in the rear - thats actually our master suite up there. Again - a compromise with the wife. I need a ton of natural light (S.A.D.) and my wife likes it dark (light sleeper) but the space is vaulted and I think that it would look pretty ugly to not have the window above (as viewed from the inside.) So the thought is that by putting the truss up there - it will cut down some light for the MRs.

Ok, let me do a screen shot or two on the set up and you all can tell me what I am doing wrong. I still think it looks "cartoonish."

Thanks again everyone!

[mresailor]

Ok, here is the set up - I typically do an all white model - save the IR maps and then add texures...

[jacksc02]

I would be interested in seeing this rendered without using a save IRmap. I think it will look a lot better as you will get some colour bleeding between objects. at the moment there is no interaction between the different parts of the building.

[dlparisi]

The all white model saved Imap is defintely messing up the scene. The dark grey siding will reflect a lot less light than the white and should give you better contrast under the eaves and as Jacks said, some bounced color from the roofs. It should help remove the cartoonish look of it too.

[mresailor]

Thanks all - I will run some new renders this weekend (tonight) without the saved IR map and see what happens. Again - this is all done on a laptop - so it takes a looooooooong time to re-render them. I will post new ones soon. Also working on interior shots of the living/kitchen space as well.

Thanks again!