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Gallery / Re: TPA - Westland Bunker VR Tour
« on: 2014-04-17, 15:20:10 »All is pretty good. Can i ask how you did the stone wall, I like it. I suppose you used a BIM for the architectural design, would of been cool to see more of the Mechanical system, I notice you have cooling towers on the roof. good work.
Hi Alex, thanks! (you do awesome work yourself, btw!)
It's all modeled in Sketchup actually.... I know, I'm a real glutton for punishment!! The modeling is then imported to 3dsMax for final details and rendering. Here's a dropbox gallery showing the SU model, if you're interested: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mqnzoxgonv8ep78/lYR8SdMg1f
That said, I've been looking for quite a while to make the switch to a good BIM modeler. Currently leaning towards ArchiCAD... but none of them (Revit, Chief Architect, Vectorworks, etc) are really a perfect solution and are very clunky! But I just need to "bite the bullet" as they say, pick one and get it to work! It looks like you have some experience with BIM, have any recommendations?
Regarding the stone, it was done with a displacement map. I had to really pre-subdivide the mesh and crank up the Corona "Max subdiv per poly" variable to like 400-500 to get somewhat clean results. I'd say displacement mapping is one of the areas Corona still needs a lot of improvement (I know Ondra has said this himself before). It would be nice to have the subdiv variable on a per material basis, and not global, for one. Also a better form of displacement that's geometry independent and doesn't required the base geom to be subdivide (like Vray 2d disp, but for 3d).