Very basic render of bench on grass

[Gareth82]

Hi all, I have just finished working through the Vray tutorial and decided to play around with exterior scenes in the evening/night setting. I would like any comments, both positive and negative. I only realised after the render was finished that the wood texture was set on tile and was very small. so that is one thing I will change. can anyone help me make my light look more realistic? I put an omni light inside the lantern and then applied glass to the sides, and gave it a emissive layer? any better ways of doing it.

Thanks for your input.

Gareth

[ckosio_cg]

Re: Very basic render of bench on grass

nice work!! Im impress man! where did you get the grass??

[Gareth82]

Re: Very basic render of bench on grass

It is a 0.5 blend between the grass you get off the ASGVIS site and a jpg wicture of grass I took, but ive scaled the image bigger. I think I went a bit overboard with the bump map and the displacement though, I set the effect for them to noise. I think if i was zoomed out further it would look nice. Im going to re-do it tonight and try and get the wood texture better, turn off the bump map on the "pavement" and try and get the light effect a bit better - so that you can "see" the light coming out the lantern.

Hopefully ill get there eventually.

the program has a lot of potential...

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: Very basic render of bench on grass

Looks pretty good to me. I guess you have adjusted the omni light to create the soft edge to the shadows, which works well. I think you just need to wang up (a technical expression!) the level on the emissive layer on the lamp glass so that it emits!

David

[Gareth82]

Re: Very basic render of bench on grass

That is what is confusing me, I realise that I am using a physical camera, and I have experimented quite a bit with it, but at the moment my camera was set on 1?200th sec shutter speed, apeture of 22 and a ISO of 50, and I am using a omni light with an intensity of 300, ( I realise you need it higher with physical camera) but even when the Glass had an Emissive layer with an intensity of 10000 it still came out black, to get the image above the emissive is turned up to 100000 - surely im doing something wrong?

Maybe i should not be using an emmisive glass at all and maybe put 4 rectangular lights inside the lamp and then use a standard transparant glass with maybe a light yellow fog?

[nomeradona_cg]

Re: Very basic render of bench on grass

jsut like what i have shared with emmissive light, you can increse the effect of light by tweaking your camera. IMHO easiest way to see the effect is by lowering the fstop value (if you are using the real camera (whether digital or film) this is all about making the size of window aperture bigger to allow more light to penetrate inside the camera. if you increase the fstop valuey you will see the effect of emmissive material.