No offense chewxy, but was that the James model in Poser? Or was it just a lookalike... (you definately sell it online with better textures @ Renderosity)

Model is quite good now, you need to touchup the textures a little bit.

Where'd you get that?

You can use Realflow for free. It's just that the program becomes extremely annoying.

lauyah, nice shaders.

I hope this doesn't get frowned upon (no "actual polygonal/NURBS modelling going around here), just a WIP of something I'm doing (I still don't have a clear idea where this is going, fancy or pure.)



This overhang terrain with ecosystems (i.e. the "forest") took 20+ mins to render in Vue 5 Infinite at not-so good settings with Global Illumination. It's very primitive and unpolished (invisible in render, obvious in wireframe) because everything isn't "consciously" modelled, just painted, deformed and edited heightmaps.

C&Cs appreciated.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jun 9 2006, 08:24 PM

Thx for the encouragement man!

Have been rendering since yesterday night, now it's at 21% with approx 60 more hours to go (I'm confident that it'll finish tomorrow, however )

I don't really have faith in this one, on fear of assumed (spitefully by others) as taking source content from samples- the whole thing, including terrain, ecosystem, atmosphere, lighting, are self-made/placed/bought from Renderosity. It darn looks like Eran Dinur's Cerdo Verde however, and that's the main concern.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jun 10 2006, 04:14 PM

Final piece：
Although this is the finished piece, I'll be sending another stylized version to my online portfolios.

90+ hours @ 2560*1706, HDR and G-buffer, postwork on multipass because damn thing was freakingly noisy even at high quality settings.

Actually, I'm a n00b at 3DS MAX, I use Vue 5 Infinite as a scene creator.
Procedural Terrains + Ecosystems with prebuilt trees, it's quite easy (tweaking it to perfection, however, can make you mad. XD)
I got some of my tips here:
http://www.asilefx.com/product_tut_vue5adv_01.html

The other stuff, I got from the Renderosity Vue forums.

I dunno about Rhino, quite pening...
Well, I can't stand NURBS concept. Polygons for me.
mufasa: Great models. Get them into 3DS and use Brazil for sexy rendering.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jun 26 2006, 01:05 PM

You've got a lot of the stuff right, but lighting and texturing could be reworked to be much better.

andriel, I think they are RPC characters. (Google Archvision)
I might be wrong though.

BTW here's a finished image of my fun with the new version of Realflow:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/36395969/

I have a link where *AHEMMMMMMMMM* and there's lots of RPC content (annoying for the casual browser like me, though)
You'll have to mark down the dates to register in said site, however.

If you want to slack off, paint a displacement map onto the tyre! Saves you effort.

@LOSD
Nice stuff!
Realism is easy: Experiment with the Tone mapping settings in vRay. NEVER ever put people in a final scene (final =/= client pic) where you wanna show your chops. Use high resolution textures with Color/Diffuse, Bump and Specular maps and don't overdo the bump.

That's it! (2 hours more work )

ZBrush3, ~RM2000. Free upgrades for life though.

Ma. Ma. MIA. <3 what the nodal system did, ICE looks like a nice experiment.

Will be trying it after my UEC finals. Hopefully will get a 1920 monitor to work with, lol.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Jul 9 2008, 08:46 PM

Whoa, why did Essentials pricing jump that much?

It *was* ~USD700 for XSI 4-6.5 I think. Geez...

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All of us here use Houdini and work in top notch VFX studios. We're just being modest.
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