Dome of the rock WIP

[Sawyer]

Not done but I would love some feedback on this. This was my first time really getting into wrapping textures and I really liked it.

[jacksc02]

looks cool, but i think you need a bit more contrast between light and shadow

[DaForce]

That looks really cool.


Looks like a nice game model, is that what its for?

[Sawyer]

That looks really cool.


Looks like a nice game model, is that what its for?

Thanks no its for a high school text book to be used as an example of Islamic architecture.

I had a few intersting challenges with this. I am using Scalpelmax which has done a great job. I copied the cut geometry reversed the slice and then turned this geometry not visable to camera (so it casts shadows but not seen). I would get geometry still rendering (just the panels on the exterior walls) even if I hid them but it would not render if I upped the ray bias to .01. I don't know what that was about.

Then I also was having the file crash once rendering began. This came from 1 object and I got an invalid surface normal error in the vray error box. I found if I moved the UVW map up the stack the error went away.

Scalpelmax says it won't affect UVW coordinates and it did ok. I had 3 objects that I had to massage a little bit and 2 of them were fine if I moved the UVW unwrap modifier above the scalpel max mod.

[gilpo]

Wow, that's nice!

[jacksc02]

can you render out a closer shot for us?

[Sawyer]

Slight lighting modifications on this:

[DaForce]

Thats pretty sweet.
Texturing works well

[Sawyer]

Not prefect I need to readjust a few things but much better than slice.