3d Room

[3d Nirvana]

Wow, its been sooooo long since ive done anything in 3d. My old computer had graphics card troubles, so it was a chore working with anything in 3d. Now with my new computer (finally!) i can make 3d things again! it feels good. Heres a room i made today, not too complicated, but it was fun! The photo on the "wall" was one i took at the zoo a while ago :).

http://www.3dnirvana.com/ForumPics/roomCompressed.jpg

I just thought I'd share. comments welcome!

[Pasquale]

Looks great man. The darkest shadow on the coffee table feels a bit harsh though. I dig the shader on the couch :)

[3d Nirvana]

thanks! i'll mess with the lights and post a re-render up later. I think i overdid the contrast in photoshop too... lol.

http://www.3dnirvana.com/ForumPics/sofaCompressed.jpg
i used this (http://www.urbanfurnishings.com/images/stella_sofa.jpg) image for reference

heres a render of just the sofa i decided to upload too.

[Phenex]

That is very very neat man. Bravo!

The nitpicks I could find are that the couch on the right is a little over-illuminated. You should fix the camera angle and the depth of field since the left-most edge of the couch on the left receives too much blur and clips out of frame. And tilt the cam a lil upwards so the room doesn't look like it's gonna slide down. The glow of the lamp is a little too intense and as darky said, that darkest shadow of the table is a bit too sharp.

Overall, I think it's fantastic. The colors and all, I dig um! And yea, gotta love the shader on the couch. Nice work dude! :)

Add more stuff and put it on the table... Like a glass sheet over the table top... Some glassy materials like a vase, a wine glass or something ceramic like a coffee mug :P or a china dish with some feng-shui sorts marbles in it. Place some magazines in the bottom portion of the table hanging half out loosely. Ya know... Fun stuff! :D

You could also put an open book/novel on the couch facing down, like someone had been reading there. A pair of slippers/shoes on the floor. Maybe a celphone too... Haha! I'm goin crazy!

[Pasquale]

thanks! i'll mess with the lights and post a re-render up later. I think i overdid the contrast in photoshop too... lol.

http://www.3dnirvana.com/ForumPics/sofaCompressed.jpg
i used this (http://www.urbanfurnishings.com/images/stella_sofa.jpg) image for reference

heres a render of just the sofa i decided to upload too.
So is the shader physical or image based?

[3d Nirvana]

haha thanks good ideas phenix! i'll see if i can include some of em in the next render.

the shader is physical based darkmotion. I have the incandescence changing a little bit as a result of the angle of the surface to the camera camera to make it look felty, like how real felt kinda gets lighter at a steeper angle (like around the edges), then i have some random noise on the color channel too to make it look like the felt has been ruffled a little and darker in some spots.

[fulltank]

Oh man I dig the softness of the light :)

[Pasquale]

haha thanks good ideas phenix! i'll see if i can include some of em in the next render.

the shader is physical based darkmotion. I have the incandescence changing a little bit as a result of the angle of the surface to the camera camera to make it look felty, like how real felt kinda gets lighter at a steeper angle (like around the edges), then i have some random noise on the color channel too to make it look like the felt has been ruffled a little and darker in some spots.

That's a really neat way to go about it! What's the rendertime for the scene? (excluding comp)

[Rezmason]

I wanna sit on it. If you hadn't said it was modeled, I wouldn't have guessed.

[3d Nirvana]

thanks everyone, glad to hear it looks photo realistic :)

the render 2000x2000 only took a minute or so. Not bad. I love having a new machine. It probably would have taken hours on my old computer... then just before it finished say it had a error and crash :P

[denizengt]

3DS or Maya?

1min render time? What insane comp do you have? :O I'm on a quad, 8gb of ram, 2x8800's and I doubt it would take a min!

[Pasquale]

Well it looks like it's dmap shadows so it shouldn't be THAT heavy

[thesparky007]

how come i cant see the image?!

[Templarian]

^http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd_oi49pry4

[3d Nirvana]

its raytraced shadows using mental ray.

i checked, it was actually 5 minutes and 27 seconds. lol sorry. i remembered wrong :P (it seemed like a minute because i was doing other stuff at the time too i guess? lol)

I'm running quad 2.7 with hyperthreading (so maya says 8 processors) and 4gig of ram.

So yeah, I'm using maya. and sorry for the down time, it looks like my server was down (again)... i hate ipowerweb, i'll change hosts some day...

Edit: make that 2 minutes and 27 seconds... i have reading and time estimating problems i guess :P so still pretty fast! our computers would probably render it in about the same amount of time denizengt. I think its mostly a function of your processor speed and number of processors.

[ajcates]

It is a very nice render, I like all the warm colors.

[shane-c]

Looks really good :beer:

...You should add a stripper pole, though. It just feels like the right thing to do.

[Pasquale]

its raytraced shadows using mental ray.

i checked, it was actually 5 minutes and 27 seconds. lol sorry. i remembered wrong :P (it seemed like a minute because i was doing other stuff at the time too i guess? lol)

I'm running quad 2.7 with hyperthreading (so maya says 8 processors) and 4gig of ram.

So yeah, I'm using maya. and sorry for the down time, it looks like my server was down (again)... i hate ipowerweb, i'll change hosts some day...

Edit: make that 2 minutes and 27 seconds... i have reading and time estimating problems i guess :P so still pretty fast! our computers would probably render it in about the same amount of time denizengt. I think its mostly a function of your processor speed and number of processors.
:fight: that setup kicks so much arse

[mattrock23]

Looks good except the book case looks kinda too blurry to me.

[3d Nirvana]

thanks everyone!

mattrock: it's supposed to be blurry, its farther away from the camera :) I have the focus as the middle of the scene. I didnt like having everything in sharp focus, then the bookshelf always pulled my eye away from the center of the room...

[denizengt]

its raytraced shadows using mental ray.

i checked, it was actually 5 minutes and 27 seconds. lol sorry. i remembered wrong :P (it seemed like a minute because i was doing other stuff at the time too i guess? lol)

I'm running quad 2.7 with hyperthreading (so maya says 8 processors) and 4gig of ram.

So yeah, I'm using maya. and sorry for the down time, it looks like my server was down (again)... i hate ipowerweb, i'll change hosts some day...

Edit: make that 2 minutes and 27 seconds... i have reading and time estimating problems i guess :P so still pretty fast! our computers would probably render it in about the same amount of time denizengt. I think its mostly a function of your processor speed and number of processors.

Yeah mine would do it in around the same time, my quad's overclocked to 3.4GHZ though, probably shaves ~10sec off the time if that. Blowdows can't use the 8GB as far as I can tell.