Exterior Pool Scene

[EricCamper]

So....Here is the prelim images for my latest job. Comments and crits of course welcome...I havent decided on a sky as of yet....But let me know what I need to tweak Vray Sun/Sky Vray Camera - 100 iso, 30 SS, and f-8

-3/-1 IR and LC - Exponential mapping....and mostly standar settings around. Also....you will see in two of the images that it seems to be doing som weird things with the wood maps?? Any suggestions?

[siliconbauhaus]

looks like flipped normals on the chairs mate....are they from sketchup ?

[EricCamper]

Hmmm I got them from TurboSquid...But then I converted the maps to vray mats and it was fine....But I am not sure that is what did it....

[glorybound]

Mapping

You look a little washed out in parts. Have you tried the Reinhard, maybe at .5?

[priad]

good lighting Eric!
Overexposed, it's strange with exponential... and some problem on you meshes, flipped or double face.
but good contrast.
Please repost the last.
PS: try the exposimeter by ^Lele^ the little devil , it work like a charm in this kind of situation, put vray cam, a sky, expose and play
I think you can rid of these overexposed areas with it, in near one click.

[EricCamper]

Thanx....Is the last image not showing up for ya??

Exposimeter huh...Yeah...Like I am going to trust a guy with less than 50 posts. Downloaded and tried...Does it only use the settings when you hit expose or do the settings transfer to when I just hit render?? Script looks awesome....

[DaForce]

Yeah your contrast is out of whack. YOur darks are too dark and your brights are too bight.

I PS'd 2 of them quickly to show you just abit more how they should look.
As for your wood, I would bet its double faces.

[EricCamper]

Thanx man....So....I shall post my settings if you need...But can I fix that in vray or Max? I was trying Lele's Expose thingy....But I haven't had a chance to play with it...We are taking the kids to the Zoo tomorrow, so I am off...The boy is gonna freak when he sees an elephant or lion...Sweet!!

Thanx

[DaForce]

Yeah you should be able to fix that just fine in vray. Just a matter of tweaking your color mapping settings abit I would think. Or adopting gamma 2.2 for the render that might well help too. But its abit late into the project to change over now I would think.

Zoo hey, geez havnt been to a zoo in years.
Going to see some relatives are you
Sorry couldnt help it.

[EricCamper]

hehe....No relatives there...that day anyway.

Here are the settings:



and the new image

[SnipeyX]

wow, what did you change between the original images and these recent ones. The new ones are quite nice!

[EricCamper]

All I really did was change the dark and bright multipliers in the Color mapping section. Thanx...Still need to add tons of LIFE to the scene and perhaps adjust a bikini or two.

[DaForce]

Well done mate, thats looking LOTS better.

Your IR map settings are a little od tho, you have min and max both at -3, you could get more detail out if it were say -3 / -1

[giraffe]

hi
can u pls tell me about tiles texture?
thx

[EricCamper]

Hi there...Got those from Beldin Pavers. You can download the program and make just about anything they sell as a texture. Then I just Ps'd a bump texture and used it too.