i love vray - just playing with some materials...

[zeromancer1972]

don't know if i add something more...
just playing with materials

[DaForce]

looks nice.

But the couch looks very very hard, and change the floor texture, standard 3dsmax maps look really bad

I like the glass bottles!

[natty]

hi
i got to agree with DaForce...... try to use some nice textures.

try here.

http://www.animax.it/

Natty

[DaForce]

Some decent textures here as well.
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/~pbourke/texture/
http://www.imageafter.com/
http://textures.forrest.cz/
http://www.monitorstudios.com/bclowa..._textures.html
http://www.mayang.com/textures/

[zeromancer1972]

yeah but its hard to find a nice texture for a ground, esp. a wooden one. i have tons of textures, but nothing seems to fit, even the sites you offered me (thanks alot) have got something nice.

well, the ground wasn't the thing i focused on, but as you noticed, the bottles, couch (ok, looks hard, but it's an artificial leather like material) and the table - i'm trying to show you some structure of the black "wood" soon

thanks for your comments so far - and stay tuned, maybe this one grows to a "bigger" image

[DaForce]

For the couch, if you made the leather bunch up abit at the corners. and have a nice glossy highlight that would look great and give it a less "hard" look, at the moment that couch does not look that inviting to sit on.

Why dont you have a nice tile floor with glossies?

[zeromancer1972]

well the floor is a little glossy, somewhat it reflects.
i would like to have a dark wooden floor as it can be found in a loft.
i played a little with other materials before, such as flat dark surfaces like in entrance halls at airports or something. that looks too cold.

later this day i will search for a floor that fits.

my modeling skills aren't as good as they have to be to model those bunches you meantioned, perhaps i will practise. for now i have no idea to achieve this...

[jujubee]

I think it has the makings of a very good image. So far better than what I have done architecturally.

If I can make a couple of suggestions, throw in a couple of pillows on the couch!!! Round the bottom cushions a little on the top (try a ffd modifier with a slight soft selection.) And for that Queer Eye for the Straight Guy look, put a stripe running vertically across the wall! A couple of plants might add to the scene too.

-Jujubee

[Da_elf]

i like his little signature hehehe. took me "10" seconds to figure it out but im one of the ones who understands it

[RErender]

that makes atleast a 11 of us

[zeromancer1972]

hehe i found this sig in another forum, cgtalk i think, so it's not my creation

ok guys, the same ground, but less hard couch
tried something with blurry refractions on the table, but the bottles seem to flow... i'll tweak this!



edit:
ok i have one question before i start over with this:
this image took about 3 hours of rendering. ok, there are a lot of blurry reflections and refractions, but even the wall (which is texturemap only) is soooo slowly rendered...
i used 2 vray lights for GI fake and one direct for the sun fake.

my thought was that the vray light itself was the cause - is it possible that it uses more resources than a standard light?
i disabled the area shadow option and spinned the sub divs to 10.

ayn idea?

thanks alot

[zeromancer1972]

and another shot

this rendering took 20 mins and there are no maps

my machine is a P4 at 1800 Mhz, 512 MB of RAM.



any chance to speed up w/o decreasing the quality dramatically?

[zeromancer1972]

this one is without maps AND reflections/refractions and took 11 mins...

strange, thinking of render times less than a minute to achieve this result... even with the GI turned on using standard lights the render time is less.



this is what i'll try next!

[zeromancer1972]

no vray lights, one direct, no GI, 1:53 mins.
this is what i am used to.

[zeromancer1972]

the same with GI, 3:58 mins



am i right not to fake GI but to use it???
i experienced the other way round...