[Fernando Tella]

Awesome job!

[BEM]

Great job,

i like it.
How do you made the wet asphalt material?

BEM

[m-Que]

WOW!
Maybe you should try 'cars-in-motion' effect, since night city scenes are usually shot on a slower shutter speed (like a couple of seconds or so). That would look even more realistic. Otherwise, the cars look like as if they all are standing. And cars' stop-red-lights would look cool, too.

[daros]

Thanks to all!!!

yes, m-que, car in motion would be nice. May with photoshop on the final image.

x Bem, i don't like yet the asphalt 100%. Principally it's a 3 layer BSDF.
Here you can see the set-up.
http://updown.stack-studios.com/nextlimit/asphalt.jpg

some small changes and a test with a 3D background which is again to low





and an high-res from yesterday.
http://updown.stack-studios.com/nextlim ... view07.jpg

[daros]

Final image is our updated gallery.

[KurtS]

superb rendering!

The only thing that instantly reveils that this is either a manipulated photo or a rendering is the horizon. It is still not correct, and should be placed on the red line:

[daros]

Hi kurts, you are right, here is the final image:

[ingo]

Looks nice, but i think it could benefit from a higher contrast and saturation, especially if it has rained before.

And to get more life into the appartments or offices i usually render the interior walls as an alpha channel so i can add some pictures later in my image editor.

Seems the trafficlights are off for maintenance.....

[NicoR44]

[tom]

Road material is really nice!

[Tea_Bag]

[Fernando Tella]

Great shot!

I wonder if the center of attention is the small black building at the corner. It's abit too far to tell what is it or how does it look like.

Also I wonder if you have added some distortion in post, cause the tall building at the right looks curved.

Awesome image anyway.

[daros]

Hi Ingo, i increased a bit the contrast of the image and you was right it looks better. An other image is coming with a bit more people even in the towers as some other stuff. The traffic lights are oriented toward the traffic direction and since the main street has a one-way direction we don't see them from the actual POV. But i think there are missing a few crosswalk traffic lights... thank you for the suggestions.

Thank you Tom, tea_bag and nikoR44!

x Fernando Tella, you are right, there is not a real center of attention in the image. The small building should be a bar or something like that.
There is no distortion added in post. May the effect is because the camera is oriented slightly toward the ground. A perspective correction would probably help. Thank you!

[Peder]

Perhaps -if that is an island off in the distance - it should have some sort of reflection in the water surface...

Looks amazing anyway!!!

Peder

[daros]

thanks peder.
i was thinking the same about water reflections but if you take a look to most of real world or photographic examples it isn't true if the object is far away.

http://wirednewyork.com/waterfront/ferr ... july03.jpg

http://www.cocoplumcay.com/images/large ... _water.jpg

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/i ... island.jpg

http://www.tropicalisland.de/KBV_Krabi_ ... Island.jpg

http://www.bibleplaces.com/images/Phila ... 110700.jpg