[Andreas Hopf]

Rendering wet asphalt and pavement https://youtu.be/z3fIPa07YeY

Rendering regular, concrete paver and steppe grass https://youtu.be/KyHnhLkmRBs

[Micah Hostetter]

Thank you. Good asphalt render. Good textures can make such a difference even over simple geometry. And... this helped me catch a smoothing error in my latest render.

[CDRDA]

Andreas, these are most excellent tutorials and a lot of work went into this, thank you! Really top grade results.

Maxwell Render needs more content like this and has for a long time since the apparent departure of the undisputed Maxwell guru, Mihai from the forums.

Micah's comment regarding quality textures is very much on point. I spent a long time wondering where that magic render button was, before I realised that the textures I used were rubbish and bringing my renders down. Of course I was also constrained at the time by my hardware back in 2009. Nowadays, we are spoilt for choice.

For any new users out there, especially professional users, investing in a decent texture repository will pay for itself very quickly.

[Andreas Hopf]

Thanks. This viewtopic.php?p=401601#p401601 is quite interesting and likely to be the future. Right now the 2k resolution is lacking for close-ups, and the normalmaps and roughness maps are not very good. But I'm sure AI textures will mature very rapidly.

[CDRDA]

Thanks. This viewtopic.php?p=401601#p401601 is quite interesting and likely to be the future. Right now the 2k resolution is lacking for close-ups, and the normalmaps and roughness maps are not very good. But I'm sure AI textures will mature very rapidly.

Have you tried something like Topaz Labs AI gigapixel to upscale the textures?

[Andreas Hopf]

No, I only have Topaz DeNoise AI. Main trouble with these AI textures is that right now, bump or normal maps ain't too good compared to an Arroway or Poliigon texture in my opinion.

[Mark Bell]

Rendering wet asphalt and pavement https://youtu.be/z3fIPa07YeY

Rendering regular, concrete paver and steppe grass https://youtu.be/KyHnhLkmRBs

Thank you Andreas. Very well put together and presented ...... and good topics too. Thanks for sharing these on the Forum.

[Pedro Calixto]

Andreas, thank you for sharing!