While I await a running computer

bobbystahr · October 08, 2016, 06:34:46 PM

I dug into my old files and touched up this idea...just a boredom pic where I started with and example of flatten some terrain and it sorta grew.All model except veg free online somewhere, Dune grass 4 from his free collection and Blue Leaf Eucalyptus from XFROG freebies.

Dune · October 09, 2016, 02:27:09 AM

The light on that house is very nice and a bit mysterious. Road is an image map, I suppose, very nice. Only I think the house too close to the road (and trees), and it's floating a bit. Nice one to elaborate on.

bobbystahr · October 09, 2016, 11:28:15 AM

Quote from: Dune on October 09, 2016, 02:27:09 AM
The light on that house is very nice and a bit mysterious. Road is an image map, I suppose, very nice. Only I think the house too close to the road (and trees), and it's floating a bit. Nice one to elaborate on.

Actually Ulco it's a PF/FS blend...first one I'm sorta happy with for roads. Yeah, not well composed but it was a doodle as I said and I may forget about it when my new computer gets running. We're having a Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend so I'm waiting till after then to get on the builders case about it...ain't I kind, heh heh. Windows spontaneously errors out when I'm not even working on the computer and the vid card driver is from 2011 and all that should have been done when I got the box...a bit shoddy on his part....but it was inexpensive so I'm giving him slack as it was really a favour to someone he only met through Kijiji.

Dune · October 10, 2016, 02:07:41 AM

Well, good job on that gravel road then, keep it as a tgc. I hope these guys (guy) can fix your rig, it should behave properly or it's no fun.

Agura Nata · October 10, 2016, 02:44:29 AM

Well done :-)

bobbystahr · October 10, 2016, 02:56:43 AM

Quote from: Dune on October 10, 2016, 02:07:41 AM
Well, good job on that gravel road then, keep it as a tgc. I hope these guys (guy) can fix your rig, it should behave properly or it's no fun.

Y got that right...at our music jams we say "If you're not having fun you're doing it wrong"..Kinda the same attitude, but the machine's doing it wrong. And yup, I did save it I believe.

bobbystahr · October 11, 2016, 05:17:06 PM

Well full marks to Ulco on spotting that placeholder image map on th road. I had it there to harvest the colours for my Power Fractal shader and forgot to change them over when I rendered. That's done and the scene is reconfigured more to Ulco's suggestion re: building placement. And as it didn't need ray tracing I made the bldg displaceable and applied a map I made from the colour map. Perks the building right up and they also have a Luminosity map on the windows, also made by me.
2 hour render time on this old box.

Dune · October 12, 2016, 02:29:41 AM

The house is better situated now, but I did like the 'old road' better than this. Try to simulate that photo/texture perhaps..... or leave it in.

DocCharly65 · October 12, 2016, 03:30:53 AM

In fact much better

Better POV
Better house details
Better composition

What I saw:
Could you check if it's only my imagination or is the front right wheel of the car floating?
The street is not so bad in my eyes but previous one looked in fact better.
And .. only if you were bored while waiting for your box

perhaps some curb stones?

bobbystahr · October 12, 2016, 11:37:14 AM

Quote from: Dune on October 12, 2016, 02:29:41 AM
The house is better situated now, but I did like the 'old road' better than this. Try to simulate that photo/texture perhaps..... or leave it in.

Thanks Ulco, and I have to agree I will make another stab at re-creating that image map before I put it(the image map0 back in...I went off track some where...too late at night when I worked on it.

bobbystahr · October 12, 2016, 11:39:55 AM

Quote from: DocCharly65 on October 12, 2016, 03:30:53 AM
In fact much better
Better POV
Better house details
Better composition

What I saw:
Could you check if it's only my imagination or is the front right wheel of the car floating?
The street is not so bad in my eyes but previous one looked in fact better.
And .. only if you were bored while waiting for your box perhaps some curb stones?

Thanks, you Ulco and me all agree on the road and if my next attempt doesn't nail the texture I will reinsert the image map...still floating free in the network as I suspected I may not be able to do as good or better.

bobbystahr · October 12, 2016, 07:40:56 PM

Here's a crop render of the new blend which I think works and added a fakestone road edge at Doc's suggestion. Gonna be offline for a while tonight getting work done/updates to my new computer...fingers crossed.....I addition Doc spotted the floating right side of the car...the road has a 3 degree slope so I rotated the Ferrari -3 in the Z

Dune · October 13, 2016, 04:02:30 AM

Works indeed!

mhaze · October 13, 2016, 04:12:11 AM

Just seen this, nice one Bobby. Hope you're up and running soon.

bobbystahr · October 13, 2016, 09:22:02 AM

No luck last nite so I set this to render over night. Going to call this done now.Thanks for all the help/encouragement.