Hello everybody, long time no see. Here is my latest exterior test. Done in SU7 and vray4su…C&C are always welcomed 
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THose trees are just billboards ??? they look just there ..
where did you get them ??
GReat render ..exteriors are so complicated to me ..
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Hey Taouklai, good to see you work again. Very realistic and also artistic. Hard to tell if those are billboards or high poly 3d trees. 
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Couldn´t expect less from you Taoklai, great render, trees look 3D to me, but they still look amazing, people that are not into renders wouldnt notice. congratulations.
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Hi TAOKLAI your render looks great, wheare you get thoose trees ? :o
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shame on you for posting a picture here 
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Fantastic work, maybe you could post a sketchup wireframe for us?
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Great stuff! The trees and grass look very nice and convincing. I also like the soft shadow of the tree on the wall.
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Thanks taoklai, thats great stuff. Congrats once again.
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How did you achieve that colour tone?
HDRI? Photoshop?
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First of…love your work
Enjoy your realistic, yet artistic renders.
One question
If you went to the trouble of rendering trees in max (then making a billboard) why didnt you render the whole thing in max
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10x for the comments. Alrami , welcome to the forum…it´s a shame about Damien…
thomthom - the color effect is mostly photoshop. The scene was lit with vray sun and sky.
HOLMES1977 - i actually rendered this scene in max because i wanted the full 3d trees´, but the problem was that the trees have sss leaves, reflection and displacement so the render took 3h. With the billboards it took 1h and rendering the trees separatley took 30 min…so i wanted to see this result and how it would affect rendertime and quality…hope this helps
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excellent contrast between the trees and the building. i wish you post more man… each time you post you have additional insights.. great job again tao…
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thanks nomeradona, I´ll try posting more in the future - I´ll start working soon on a big project and I plan on posting the process on this forum. 10x again or the comments
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i mean photo, just being sarcastic…
damn im very bad at jokes
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taoklai,
Beautiful work, love the weathering on the textures, soft warm lighting and perfect amount of diffuse glow. I see you’ve got clumps of geometrical grass around the base of the building, but is the rest of the grass just straight displacement or is there a lot of post work on it also? It looks great!
Nice design too BTW, good proportions, massing and fenestration.
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10x for the comments JACKSON, the grass is just bump (bump multiplier is 10), no displacement (trying to cut back rendertime because it was done on my laptop) and no photoshop was needed for the grass (exept te area closest to the house - a little clone brushing with grass brush). The design of the house is mine and it was intended to be an urban house but i tried to see how it looked in a wild environment…and i liked it
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Hi again, Taoklai, can you tell my about lighting ? Did you use rectangular/omni ligts ?
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to SIMAS : The scene was lit by phisycal sun with a size multiplier of 5 and phisycal sky, no other kind of lights were used. (but if i were to replace the sun with a certain light, I would use rectangular lights instead of omni.)