[Tim Ellis]

New update.

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A quick render with the car back in, this was rendered before certain aspects have been fixed, so forgive the errors.




Older renders:-






New render without the gravel piles.



Flash light render:-


Black and white version:-






Modeled a while a go by me with Blender 3D, re-rendered with Maxwell RC5. 15 samples of 25 @ 1000x1000 after 8hrs.

Old update:-

Click the thumbnail, then click bottom right of image to view full size.

Worked some more on the textures:-






Old renders using Blender's internal renderer:-

http://www.free-webspace.biz/sonix/CGTa ... XWIP2.html


C&C on anything is appreciated.

Cheers,

Tim.

[Hervé]

well, you've simply made the first Car paint really good...

but I don't like the chrome parts and tires.. my pov...

[Nicolas Rivera]

Tim, very nice design and render.

But this could be a great render, chrome parts need improvent, interior of the car too. The floor texture need to be of better resolution and the bump on the brick colums looks wierd.

A litt;e correction on this points and you'll have a winner.

[jurX]

invert the bump!!

[reaver]

Very nice Tim.

Carpaint looks familiar

Cheers.

Nick.

[Tim Ellis]

Thankyou.

I've remodeled the enviroment as I was having issues with UV mapping & tiling in studio and also made new uv maps and used better textures.


I will post an update after the weekend.

Cheers for the car paint tips Nick.

Tim.

[tanguy]

really good shader, but maybe the direction wheel is a little too low place in the cockpit ?

[Tim Ellis]

Thankyou, I have changed the location of the steering wheel.

Update in top post, improved textures and mapping, although I'm not happy with the glass yet. The driver's side window has been removed, which is why the glass looks non existant there.

Chromework could also do with some improvement. I used the default steel mxm, and lowered reflectance value to 10. Perhaps there's a better method though.

C&C weclomed, thankyou for the feedback so far.


Tim.

[TCSFunk]

Nice Rims

[Tim Ellis]

Cheers.

Update added to first post.

Worked some more on the textures.

I've left one rendering today with some more additions and will be adding rubbish & dirt to make things more realistic.

Any comments or crits on the new render?

Thanks,

Tim.

[Tim Ellis]

Click thumbnail then bottom right corner of image, to enlarge to correct size. (1000x1040)




New update.


I'm rendering a version which doesn't have the small gravel piles in, as I'm not 100% sure about them yet.

I've decided to finish the enviroment before doing more work on the car.

Hopefully no texture repetition (this time ).

Scene info:-

41 different texture maps, most from the 3D Total texture collection, the rest hand made weight maps.
Floor & pillar materials are made up of four colour maps each with their own 'weight' maps for distribution variation, & a matching bump map in each case.
632000 faces approx.
Rendered at 2000x2000 for 4hrs to sample level 11, resized to 1000x1000.
Small amount of contrast & clouds added with photoshop.


Comments, critisims welcomed.

Thanks,

Tim.

[Tim Ellis]

Click thumbnail to view, then click bottom right of image to resize.

New render without gravel piles:-


Flash light render:-


Black and white version:-



Is it better with or without the gravel piles?

Is there anything else that can be done to make this image better?

Any help is always greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Tim.

[michaelplogue]

These are all very cool! I especially like the addition of the ivy - nice touch.

I prefer the ones without the mounds.

To improve: I'd get a higher resolution map for the ground - it's starting to get that 'blurry pixilation' thing as it gets closer to the camera. I'd definaely add some weeds along the bases of the pilars - anything that exposed to nature would have at least something take root somewhere. And if your software supports it, I'd also use some displacement on the pillars to break up the straight lines of the corners. The duplicate mapping on the pilars are not really noticible unless your looking for it (but us CG geeks can't help looking! ).

Really nice modelling and composition. Great attention to detail on the little stuff like the small planks on the ground - the collapsed beam is a really nice touch. The greyscale image is terrific, though I'd probably bring out the mid-tones more (personal preference).

All in all, I think you are on the way to a very realistic scene. Keep it up!

[Tim Ellis]

Thanks for the suggestions Michael.

Quick update to show displacement on pillars.



Texture repetition that is present in this render has been removed and I'm currently rendering a corrected version, which I'll post tonight.

There are weeds present, but I need to rework the mesh objects as they are very difficult to see. The ground map pixelation is a scale issue inside Maxwell. I'd not realised that each pillar is only 0.375m when in Studio, so to counteract that I've change the Maxwell scale to 10.

The floor map is 1300x1200 and tiled to about 15 in x & y axis, so I think it's down to the scene scale.

Thanks,

Tim.

[macray]

Hey that looks great. Except the texture of the pillar in the front.

But what interests me: how did you do the green things that grow on the central pillar? can you share a bit of it to use in cinema4D?