Office in a Church

[hcpiter]

very nice images night render is amazing.

[Gilban]

realy cool!..
nice one bro..
keep working

[hassearo]

Really nice!
Though I think the DOF on the chair makes it look like a miniatyre.

[giraffe]

Hi
Very nice renders! I enjoy your works and style - Congrats!

[peterguthrie]

Thanks for the kind comments everyone, it was for planning and general publicity. I believe it got planning permission in April but it will probably be ages before anything starts on site.

[dejaVu]

Great work Peter.
Love the muted palette on the day shots and the deep blues versus warm artificial lights on the night shots.

Congrats.
Vu

[rayo-v]

Amen! Amazing work...Makes me want to work there (though only for an hour ).

[olitech]

Just beautiful!!

[danieljhatton]

Ultra Clean, Ultra Slick, Lighting is just awesome! I am a big fan of your work..! Your work is consistantly inspirational.

[m_hinks]

Ultra Clean, Ultra Slick, Lighting is just awesome! I am a big fan of your work..! Your work is consistantly inspirational.

Id agree with that!

[paulison]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for your response. I think that I have learnt more from what you said than from anywhere else recently and am testing these settings now. Thanks again for the help, i think these tips are great and will help others as well. Anyway, just to quote the bits that have helped me the most:

"I do find that by having the gamma at 2.2 the light seems to propagate more naturally through the scene."

"These renders were 3200px on the longest side."

area as a filter, if i need a sharpness boost then I just do it in photoshop."

" -6,-1 90 HSph DE on @ 500mm world units, Light Cache 3500 subdivs affect glossy on, Adaptive DMC sampler @ 1,16. unclamped, Reinhard Burn 0.15 Gamma 2.2 Everything else at standard settings."

"material assigned to the lightbulbs was a vraylight material (wrapped to not affect GI) with a multiplier of 50... turning this down to 2 made no difference to the way it looked and got rid of the white dots. I've learnt my lesson with overbright materials now!

[peterguthrie]

cheers paulison, if it helped then you are very welcome. It should be said though that I'm certainly no expert when it comes to vray, although I normally know what I want and am not afraid to tinker until it works! Most importantly I would never get anywhere if it wasn't for the wealth of advice and information available on this forum, so thanks everyone.

I actually always begin testing every project with vlado's universal settings, at a high ish noise threshold for speed. Then once I get round to doing final renders I normally have to reluctantly start using irradiance map/light cache because I dont have the time to use universal settings for the final render.

[giraffe]

One Question:
How did you make the DOF? Inside Max or with PS? Can you tell about your method please?

[peterguthrie]

Sure, it was good old vrayphysicalcamera DOF (6 blades, 0.25 centre bias). I have experimented with doing it in post but never get it looking as good as vray, so therefore don't mind if each render takes a bit longer.

[provise]

Really really love your images.

What are your rendertimes??