Its a rainin....

[Dynedain]

If you figure out what that glass reflection is, let me know...i've had it show up in a couple of my scenes

[percydaman]

good question... Im not sure what it is...i put up a plane behind the camera to see if it would go away and it did.

[jacksc02]

just add a falloff into the reflection slot of your glass material, that will limit the ammount of reflection.

Chris Jackson

[percydaman]

believe me there is a falloff map

[percydaman]

heres an update:



gonna work on the rain some more and add drops hitting the puddles. course with all the waterdroplets and such, the render takes over 8 hours...yeck

[percydaman]

ok heres the final. fairly happy with it, and considering it takes over 8 hours to render an 640x480 image, Im loathe to lose alot of time tinkering with it. Thanks for all the help people!



percy

[Trapezium]

IMHO, the cool colors were better. It looked like the glass was slightly tinted and the lights were something other than halogen. You could create some nice hue contrast with the cool colors and the fire also.

[percydaman]

I agree with ya, I like cool colors. but I was trying to create the look of a warm cozy atmosphere looking in from the outside, and the cooler color tint kind of throws it out.

[chris-x//]

Excellent work on the drops, just the bookshelves are a litttttle dark, maybe a little filling omni each side would be great, but these are just a noob opinion great image, congratulations !

[ziarno]

Hiya!
First one was the best for me, great lightning and cold autumn atmosphere.. in Ken Adam mood.

[Eldar]

The water drops on the window are looking pretty good. I would consider adding some streaks of water running down the window, as that is what would probably be happening.

Visualize looking from inside of your car on a rainy day. It's kinda interesting what all is happening with rain droplets. They streak down and absorb other droplets along the way, growing in size and gaining in speed.

This may be a bit out of scope of what you were aiming to accomplish and it would require some creativity with tools at your disposal, but it would make for a pretty impressive FX shot.

Off the top of my head, I imagine you ought to be able to get the simplest version of rain streaking done with morph targets.



Edit: Hmm. nevermind Looking at the final image more closely, it seems you already have some streaking going on. Looking good!

[percydaman]

hehe thanks. maxxer sent me this cool max file with these waterdroplets that run down in a very convincing fashion. Didn't use them for this but probably will in the future, cause I would love to see this animated with rain and that cool max file allan mckay created that uses particle flow to make water droplets and the like.

ok heres a green version.

[Mirko]

It looks realy good. But I think that in the last images the water is much to dark. The light from inside the house and from some street lightning that might be behind the camera should realy light up the rain drops.
I think the brigth rain in the first rendering looks a bit better! In nature the water refracts and reflects the surrounding. that means not only the dark street, but also the room and maybe some (cold?) lights behind the camera are "visible" in the rain. Ofcourse not as a clear picture, but it might light the water stripes up a bit. What do you think about this?

M)

PS: I so sorry for my bad english!!!

[percydaman]

ok maybe this is the final. Would still like to create actual raindrops bouncing off the ground and water puddles, but this scene is straining my computer at render time. I rendered JUST the outside ground and it took over 3 hours taking well over my gig of memory. The ground is now more reflective since its wet.

Also adjusted color in photoshop to make the outside colder and the inside a more subtle colder feel then the original. Hope you like, it was a fun project.



percy

[Nenad]

"ok maybe this is the final."

Aaaaah you perfectionist!