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Title: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: racoonart on 2014-03-05, 18:26:39
Some people were asking me for a breakdown of my cathedral (http://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,2166.0.html (http://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,2166.0.html)), so I opened the scene and now see what happened.... it will take ages to clean up this mess.

But seriously, I had a little free time yesterday & today and was experimenting with a "post civilisation" idea. It's not what I had in mind at first but this one came out pretty well so I invested a little more time. I'm not really happy with the moss and the ivy but both had to be made different than I'd like to make it. Ivy was problematic cause it's such a heavy underlaying geometry and neither ivygenerator nor growFX were able to cope with it. Problem with the moss is that it had to be completely procedual since I cannot kill the instanced geometry to paint some masks or something - so it's nearly uncontrollable.
Anyways, don't have more time to work on it right now, hope you like it :)

I let it render for 2h (@1080p), it's 1,006,000,000 polys and comp was done in Fusion :)
P.S. there are 7 birds in there :D

[EDIT] Ok, I've redone (most of) the ivy, it's a lot better now I think
P.P.S there are 8 birds now ;)
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: michaltimko on 2014-03-05, 18:38:25
o_O
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: fire3d on 2014-03-05, 18:47:07
awesome :)
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Alexandre Faccenda on 2014-03-05, 18:51:57
Great work, congratulations.
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: naikku on 2014-03-05, 19:00:34
oooh There is a birds nest ♥ Very nice photo BTW.
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: ind3x77 on 2014-03-05, 19:22:56
damn...
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: lasse1309 on 2014-03-05, 19:24:50
ähm... awesome! :D
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Polymax on 2014-03-05, 19:56:08
Hi-end!
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: kregred on 2014-03-05, 20:09:11
Great job!
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: nabil2k6 on 2014-03-05, 20:23:32
great work
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Chakib on 2014-03-05, 21:11:32
Love it!  Reminds me the lost of us envirenement,  perfect for this one!
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: racoonart on 2014-03-05, 21:38:37
Thanks a lot guys! I'm really glad you like it :)
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Ludvik Koutny on 2014-03-05, 21:39:56
Really nice. I even noticed the bird's nest! :D
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: romullus on 2014-03-05, 21:45:44
Holy cow... i've counted 6 birds only. Where's the last one? :]
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Dervish on 2014-03-05, 22:07:42
I think that last one got eaten!, cannot find it. :)
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: racoonart on 2014-03-05, 22:31:06
The last one is more or less impossible to find if you don't know where it is ;)
Right in the middle of the cropped image :D

Btw, I'm just experimenting with some "explosion" screenshots for some breakdown stuff...
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Alex Abarca on 2014-03-05, 23:51:05
Your ivy is the only thing that's killing it, but it looks really good.

The IvyGen should work for you. I made this while back, proxy system wasn't built-in the version yet. mental ray
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: racoonart on 2014-03-06, 00:00:01
The IvyGen should work for you.
Unfortunately not, it's either crashing max or refusing to do more than 1 correct grow. After that I have to delete every ivygen object in the scene or nothing will happen.
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Avan on 2014-03-06, 08:09:14
wow.. i havent got any words
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: johan belmans on 2014-03-06, 12:55:15
well done!!!
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: racoonart on 2014-03-06, 14:00:13
Thanks for your comments guys!

Since the ivy was really bugging me, I've redone it and uploaded a new version in the first post :) I think it's much better now.
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Alex Abarca on 2014-03-06, 17:02:17
looks way better!
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: yagi on 2014-03-06, 17:16:28
super work D'clown ....but let me use this opportunity to ask you a favour! it involves your material converter. is there a way you can update the converter to convert whatever material in a scene to a default corona material even if it cant convert the material to its corona version.? for example, the pro-materials that come in from revit, this way i can avoid getting those hot red slightly illuminated materials showing up in my renders and causing issues when i have a ton of pro-materials that are not convertible at the moment and don't have time eye-dropping every single material in the scene to apply a default corona mtl.
   
i understand your quite busy and will still find a way around pro-materials but for now this issue is frustrating when i have a tight deadline and have to spend time eye-dropping every single material in the scene when i can simply overlook them and focus on the ones that would matter the most..... hope u understand. thanks and keep up the good work.
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: Alex Abarca on 2014-03-06, 23:35:58
I feel your pain, some of these mats come from revit. I usually go through my materials I want to use in my scene. Then, I go through each one by one, and when I'm done...I texture the rest of the model grey. But not to take away from the cathedral glory, that render is damn good.
Title: Re: Cathedral "green version"
Post by: racoonart on 2014-03-07, 12:09:34
is there a way you can update the converter to convert whatever material in a scene to a default corona material even if it cant convert the material to its corona version.?

Done :) http://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,126.msg21874.html#msg21874 (http://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php/topic,126.msg21874.html#msg21874)