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Title: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 08, 2016, 10:53:29 AM
So, while waiting for the sun to set so I could start my DoF render I spied this 1937 Terraplane Coupe at sharecg and leapt at it...one of my fave autos of that era. The house is from tf3dm.com and the garage is from my trueSpace pal Basil. The hedge(Lilacs by Walli) which surrounds the whole property is controlled by a Painted shader, the grass is Ulco's and the tree is by mr_miley....thanks again Miles. The garage seems to need re-positioning and the finish on the Terraplane needs work upon reviewing...C&C welcome.....
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: Antoine on September 08, 2016, 10:58:44 AM
Very very nice ! Great clouds too ! Only the concrete under the car needs more details.

David
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 08, 2016, 11:16:57 AM
Quote from: Antoine on September 08, 2016, 10:58:44 AM
Very very nice ! Great clouds too ! Only the concrete under the car needs more details.

David

Thanks David...Easy Clouds are my new best friend. Found the seed button to be my best friend there. Yeah, the concrete uses the Grey Stone preset and I meant to 'grease it up'...on the list....
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: masonspappy on September 08, 2016, 05:14:58 PM
might want to turn down the specular value on the gentleman's suit to remove the shininess.
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 08, 2016, 05:37:18 PM
Quote from: masonspappy on September 08, 2016, 05:14:58 PM
might want to turn down the specular value on the gentleman's suit to remove the shininess.

on the list...another senior moment on my part
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 09, 2016, 12:14:40 AM
This rendered while I was out at a bluegrass jam. I forgot to mention I used hetzen's cobbles .tgc in front of the door when I listed the contributions to my image earlier
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: Dune on September 09, 2016, 01:47:30 AM
Slick render, Bobby. I do have some ideas, if you want. First of all; much more dirt, on the house, ground (grass can have some of them leaves or branches or rubble). The front drive I would make some sort of tarmac (tiny fake stones, and some mixed 'blacks'. The large tree doesn't have a very nice bark texture. It's too big I suppose. You could grow some ivy to hide or use another texture or tree. And some pops of trees on them far hills?
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 09, 2016, 03:52:07 AM
Quote from: Dune on September 09, 2016, 01:47:30 AM
Slick render, Bobby. I do have some ideas, if you want. First of all; much more dirt, on the house, ground (grass can have some of them leaves or branches or rubble). The front drive I would make some sort of tarmac (tiny fake stones, and some mixed 'blacks'. The large tree doesn't have a very nice bark texture. It's too big I suppose. You could grow some ivy to hide or use another texture or tree. And some pops of trees on them far hills?

Thanks Ulco, I was focusing initially on the Terraplane as I've been hunting one of those for a while but all your suggestions leapt to mind when I was looking at the final configuration and it's not too long a render so will have another run at it. Found a strange building I've filled with palm trees I'm rendering at the moment but tis but a time filler till I got a comment on this. Stay tuned....
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: inkydigit on September 09, 2016, 06:44:46 AM
love these Bobby... looking forward to see this one progress!
:)
cheers
Jason
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 09, 2016, 04:05:17 PM
Quote from: inkydigit on September 09, 2016, 06:44:46 AM
love these Bobby... looking forward to see this one progress!
:)
cheers
Jason

That tree bark tex has been giving me DayMares all day and am about to give up on it; thinking of using Noble Tree, a nice Hero Tree
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: luvsmuzik on September 09, 2016, 05:20:31 PM
I am sure that is a way more complex model than I am used to, but on the tree, I agree the bark tex should be at least to 1/3 scale what it is now. I have no experience in that hard stuff, as the mapping gets complex with all the subdivisions for me. I do like the color and shape of the tree though! Good progress on this complete render too.
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: Dune on September 10, 2016, 02:51:31 AM
The easiest would be to replace the texture in TG with a finer texture. If the texture is so distinctive, you also get very obvious distinctions between trunk and branch, with finer that would be less. Add some final position dirt to it further refines it.
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle_Final
Post by: bobbystahr on September 10, 2016, 10:54:41 AM
I just replaced the tree with The Noble One and am very happy I remembered I had it. Been meaning to use it for maybe years now. At 7:24:59 rendertime I'm saying this is done...the house only has the one good angle due to an un remappable(by me) roof but I got the tex I wanted on the walls and if it was a much larger render you'd see cracking paint on all the trim and doors(also annoyingly one object)
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: Dune on September 11, 2016, 03:07:29 AM
Very nice result, Bobby!
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: Hannes on September 11, 2016, 05:10:58 AM
Quite a progress. Looks great, Bobby!
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: luvsmuzik on September 11, 2016, 08:44:47 AM
Nice weathering of textures Bobby. That adds softness and realism to those perfect models. Like the tree and ground cover much better.
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 11, 2016, 09:09:07 AM
Well it turns out I have to re render this as my pal who made the garage informed me it was much too small compared to the house as the one he copied from his childhood was actually more like a small barn...sigh
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: luvsmuzik on September 11, 2016, 02:15:33 PM
Dag Nab it! wonder if you ditch the bushes behind the house (right side only) and back the garage up further behind the house (with your scaling as well)....and then back the camera up just a tad to include everything....your work on atmosphere and adding trees is great....don't touch em.

Or tell him it just looked bigger cause he was 5! LOL
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: bobbystahr on September 11, 2016, 04:27:07 PM
Quote from: luvsmuzik on September 11, 2016, 02:15:33 PM
Dag Nab it! wonder if you ditch the bushes behind the house (right side only) and back the garage up further behind the house (with your scaling as well)....and then back the camera up just a tad to include everything....your work on atmosphere and adding trees is great....don't touch em.

Or tell him it just looked bigger cause he was 5! LOL

Got it done, really simple with all the masks for tex areas and pops being SSshaders. And there's plenty of room to walk tween the back of the garage and the Lilac hedge...just waiting for a render window in my cyber life.
Title: Re: Filling Time Doodle
Post by: DocCharly65 on September 12, 2016, 02:56:27 AM
Great result, bobby!