UK Domestic Scheme

[dcauldwell_cg]

Recent small house extension - new roof and dormer windows etc.
Photomatched with background.
SU + Vray+ minor tweaks in PS



Elevation composited using Zara

[aufifillah alwi]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

nice and simple

[Jackson_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

Superb work David! How did you do the hedges? Modelled or post-processed? The brick mapping on that wall and pilaster to the left is excellent!

If I may offer some C&C the edge of the lawn would benefit from being "fuzzed up" with a jittery brush in PS so the boundary between grass and driveway is softer. Also (until V-Ray supports Ambient Occlusion) some burning in PS around where the building meets the ground would make it "settle down" on the ground a little more IMO. I've started adding a dirt map to materials at the base of most of my building models for this reason so I can skip it in post, but often the ground plane still needs some burning to simulate the dirt that accumulates near walls.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

Thanks for the comments guys.

Jackson - the hedges are from SOLO (SU Forum) - but with a bit of a real hedge overlaid in PS
I have fuzzied the edge of the lawn, but clearly not enough! I agree, it could do with some more.
I like your idea of the dirt maps - does this mean that you have one 'clean' texture (say, the brickwork) and another with a dirt map? Where does the dirt map go - do you use a 'blended' material?

Thanks

David

[Jackson_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

What I often do is apply a clean texture to a wall, then right-click that face and select "Make Texture Unique" so a new texture is created just for that face. Then you can edit it in PS and add damp and dirt stains, rust, damage, whatever you want and reassign the texture. For wall textures I use often like plain white render, concrete and brick I have two textures saved: a clean map which tiles in all directions and one with a dirt stain running along the bottom edge of the map. Inevitably, the dirty one will only tile horizontally so you have to make sure the actual diffuse map is tall enough that it will reach the top of most walls without the dirty portion repeating halfway up. Of course you only need that if you have the same material running from solum to eaves which isn't actually that often in reality.

I was going to post an example of one I made but Photobucket is down for maintenance.

[will1113_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

very nice David as usuall!! Well done!!

How did you do the elevation render? is that new to the latest vray?

nice 1!!

[nomeradona_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

as usual david, you are the master of this kind of workflow. good job.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

Jackson - "Make Texture Unique" - I have never used this before (didn't even know it existed!). What a neat idea - I've just tried it - I just need to get the grunge map a bit better. I dread to think what it does to the file size, but its yet another new tool in my box - when I've sorted it out!

Will - the elevation used the same settings as the photomatch, but I aligned the view to the front elevation, set the field of view to 1deg (the minimum, in perspective) - still used vray sun etc. It isn't a true elevation but its close enough to read as an elevation. I understand that if you use the 'standard' camera you can get a true elevation, but I haven't tried it that way.

Nomer - thanks for the kind words

David

[Jackson_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

"Make Texture Unique" was new to SU7, one of the more useful new features. : Don't forget that it'll only export to a maximum of 2048 x 2048 px so if you need a higher res texture (very likely) you need to use that just as a template, so immediately resize it in PS to 4000 px x 4000 px (or whatever), then remake the texture using your original high res diffuse map using the SU output just as a guide. It's a bit of a faff, but I haven't worked out a easier way in the SU/VfSU workflow.

[40th]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

Great Photomatch and rendering! Except what've been said i don't have any critic.
Keep on the good work David!

[steelers05]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

Yes this is very good work...do you think a sky may help or detract from the image? Either way...these are very nice images. The only suggestion I would make is to somehow rough up the edge a little of where the grass meets the pavers. Other than that, great work.

[dcauldwell_cg]

Re: UK Domestic Scheme

Thanks Steelers

Yes, the grass edge needs roughing up, I agree (make a note for next time!)

The sky - well the photomatch is the real sky. In fact I tried it with soft shadows, which would be more true to the photo it is matching, but I decided that it had more 'punch' with the shadows. The elevation is actually for the planning application and is meant to be a bit stylised.

Regards