[WIP] Staircase, for my house

[visumporec]

Excellent!... It's hard to say that isn't photo...
Could you post image before PS?
Thanks

[geoff]

Hey Pailhead, very very nice render.
I to thought it was the reference until I couldn't find any more images!
Concrete walls are excellent. (Care too share?)

Depending on what is in-between the 2 flights then this stair should stand up.
I have seen many similar stairs, and drawn a few similar (being a stair draughtsman/part-time-stair-designer)
The black thick zig-zag stringers following the shape of the stair treads would be a structural element. The Treads look a touch thin for that span.

Geoff

[pailhead]

Hey,


This is the original image,



I've tried creating a complex tile model/material, but it took a while just to get the lightcache half done, and it seemed like i lost a bit of reflections overall. The glass wall did look nice though, so i'll try to work on a compensation, soemthing that will look better but still be pretty optimized.

[glyph]

looks like there's some water spillage on the bottom step in the large image - remember to mop up before taking photos

[pailhead]

Nah, i just need to tweak it a bit.

[DaForce]

Would you be able to show the material layout for your concrete.
Its damn nice!!

[pailhead]

This could definitely be called a finished image, but i'm still working on it. I didn't like my friend's reaction to "that bizarr large pumpkin!" thing. I'll also change some things design-wise, i like the zig-zag hand rail thing more.

[visumporec]

I prefer the zig-zag hand rail more...

[dominiquelaksmana]

second that. but hey.... it's your house man! great render.

[sv]

where did you get the bitmap for your flooring?
would you be good enough to share the shader? It's excellent....

[pailhead]

Both concrete and wood are from arroway texture collections, which are by far the best libraries i've seen so far, almost too good.

I'll post some tips on creating a shader like this but i can't post the shader because of the copyrighted textures. It's nothing that special, i basically only tweak the textures once i set them up.

[sv]

hey thanks - i've just had a look at the arroway textures and purchased a pack immediately. They really are great - 6000 pixels x 6000pixels with bump and specular maps! Wow!

[pailhead]

The best texture pack ever. Thats the way they should be made.

[sv]

absolutely.

[beestee]

Do you use them at full resolution? Is there a trick to using such high-res images in materials without consuming all of my RAM and paging a ton of the info at rendertime to the HDD? I purchased their entire set awhile back, but I have had to resize them in PS before I use them. They are great textures, especially with the advent of the 64-bit era.