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gonzalu — Dodes Extreme Perspective
Published: 2007-10-05 03:41:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2064; Favourites: 22; Downloads: 242
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This guy took a lot longer than I thought
Having caustics on high really killed it. Took 42.3 hours on my Quad Core Q6700 Extreme system. VRay was set pretty high. I am not sure how to tell the difference in quality between say a 4 global multiplier and a 2 glonal multiplier on the adaptive rQMC ... I think the difference in time is substantial but not so for the resultng image quality. All in all, I like it. It was a lot of work to get the lights and intensities to where I liked them and envision them.
Hope you like it.
43 hours to render
Original shapes in TopMod 2.3
Rendered in 3D Studio Max 9 using VRay rendering engine
Slight curve adjustment in Adobe Photoshop CS3
2560x1600 on D/L link
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The modelling really does it for me, whats Topmod and how do you use it?
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Thanks thematrixishe,
TopMod? Oh it is the most addictive program LOL
start here:
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Also look into the origins of Topographical Modeling here
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and also here is more info
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Cool! Nice perspective. I really like the metal material. I wouldn't have bothered with caustics though, I think they actually exaggerrate the reflectivity of the metal in this case and look a little strange...my eye is expecting more solid shadows. If the metal was pure smooth chrome then it would make more sense, you know? Just an opinion though.
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Leah, yes, I noticed that... however, I never did a test render of that region and only saw it on the full render. There was no way I was gonna stop it after 24 hours had already passed LOL. So I let it go
Maybe I will re-do it some day without caustics on and perhaps the reflections would be different/smoother.
The material is indeed smooth but the object is not. I think those are coming from the complex blob holding the brass sphere. The lines on that sucker are pucked all over.. this is the same object full size.. .take a look at how the corners bulge out from the connectors (if you know what I mean) and that is probably why there are spots of reflections from the joints .. not the rod parts...
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