London Apartments

[tct70]

Hi All,

Not posted any finished work for a while, so C&C welcome............

[Clifton Santiago]

That's London? Yikes! Looks like american suburbs...

Good start. I would try and dirty things up, and make it a bit less bright. Maybe some Reinhard burn...

[tct70]

Hi Clifton,

Yes, London..............Eltham in fact. Perhaps I should add a couple of Range Rovers being towed for having big engines.

Image is a little bight on the sreen, but prints well - guess they will never match.

I tried to render elements to get more control, but as I have only 2gb of ram I have to use .vrimg or .exr files. For the life of me I cant get the elements out of a .vrimg file. Hoping a GUI will be included in SP2.

Thanks

[simon123]

clean....

what about a few muggers! hiding in the doorway.

the lady near the entrance seems to have a glow about her (ready brek?) and maybe should have a little shadow on her front as the sun is from behind?

[Clifton Santiago]

Eltham. Just googled it. Must admit I've never been that far south of the river.

As for render elements, I just check the desired elements, things like direct lighting, raw reflecton and specular, and they are saved as separeate .EXR files. Then I overlay or add them in photoshop, and blur or whatever to control bloom or refelctions in certain areas.

[tct70]

Clifton,

Perhaps you'd be kind enough to explain your render elements workflow in basic form as I just did a test and only got the main image. Here's what I did:

Disable "render to memory frame buffer"
Enable "render to raw image file"
Saved name of file with .exr
Add elements and select path to save in .exr format

I just get the main image and no elements saved?

Thanks

[Clifton Santiago]

Oh, you're using the vray frame buffer. I use MFB usually, and it saves the render elements separately. Just specify image type (.EXR) in the Common: Render Output dialog, and your render elements will automatically be named to indicate which render element and saved.