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Well I must say that I love this renderer! It need more shaders and has some problems but that's to be expected at this stage

So here's what I have: (I know it need more detail but it's a start.)
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This is a cute scene
It needs a little more light though. Its kinda dark right now.

Well here's an update:


I did a little post on the glass in PS...I also rendered in other renderers...man they S*&K compaired to M~R

For me it's still way to dark. The model is nice, but the picture looks empty.

I'll lighten it up some more

As far as it being empty....? I'd like to add something but I'm a bit of a minimalist and like open spaces. I'm trying to think what to add while keeping it expansive?

Hiya!
This is a nice start and i got a few pointers for u if u don't mind, this i just say so u can improve it further if you want to and make something that might even appear in the gallery if you're lucky

My suggestions..
- Change the camera angle, maybe slightly up above looking down on your scene.
- Add caustics.
- Adjust the light setup, maybe make it more into a studio light setup for this.
- Find new textures for the floor and background
- A faint bumpmap adding small scratches and tiny dents to the objects make them more realistic.
- Play a little with DOF and see what it can do for your scene, blurring the back wall brings your models in focus.
- If u use Zbrush 2 then u can detail the dents and bumps to boost the realism even more.
- I can't quite make out the background behind your glass figures but if it's a wall then plz make it look like a wall.
- As the other said the whole scene is too dark, boost the intensity and make it more interesting with multiple lights as i also said earlier in this post about a studio like setup, then u should get caustics automatically and a set of nice shadows u can play with.

Keep up the good work!

/ Max

Thanks for the support Max, I'm giving it another go!

Revision:


no post processing

Sgög? wrote:The emitter would be better ANYWHERE else than directly behing the camera

lol. O.k. Thanks!

Here's the latest (the cooperative render for some reason only merged 2 of my 4 computers for this image. The other 2 finished sucessfully but the manager and monitor don't seem to know it.) :


Unfortunately the 2 that hung up reached level 14 while the 2 that merged reached level 7 so this is a dual level 7 image hence the noise on the wall

let me know what else can be done

Thats a lot better. With the light at the glass and the nice small reflecions on the little ones the only thing I see is some reflections and bumps in the ground floor missing.

Thanks macray- I don't know how to get the floor to reflect...it's a diffuse shader and there is no way to do it that I can see! I have seen others get floors reflecting. How is it done?

actually I tried to reflect before and it didn't work I think because of where the light source was. I'll try again. Thanks!

There is no spinner in Max for the color channel...reflect is set to 1 (and I tried .8 ) and no reflection. So how do you get it to reflect?