Suggestions on how to make render more realistic?

[tshelton]

Hello!

I am just starting with Cinema 4D and Corona, and I wanted to get some feedback on what I could do to increase the quality of this render. Everything looks so flat and no matter of tweaking is helping me get much more out of it. Let me know what suggestions you have for me to try to fix materials and lighting and such.

I have attached my current render, and a photo of the venue I am recreating. I'm not concerned with some little modeling variances, like scale is slightly different, I am more concerned with the texturing, lighting, and rendering which is what I know is holding it back from looking more realistic.

Thanks!

[tshelton]

Okay, I figured out one major issue. It felt like none of my glossiness maps and bump maps were having any affect. Turns out, that was true. I needed to set the glossiness map and bump map to the linear color space, and now they are working and I'm getting a much better result. I will share results when I have something that looks better.

[tshelton]

Okay, I modified it a bit. I'm still not really happy with it, but thought I would share it here for some additional feedback.

[sprayer]

You need just repeat what you see on photo, the same imperfections, tiles have a bit rotations, damages and fillets on edges, material also have not just plain color but dirt etc

[JViz]

Hello!

I am just starting with Cinema 4D and Corona, and I wanted to get some feedback on what I could do to increase the quality of this render. Everything looks so flat and no matter of tweaking is helping me get much more out of it. Let me know what suggestions you have for me to try to fix materials and lighting and such.

I have attached my current render, and a photo of the venue I am recreating. I'm not concerned with some little modeling variances, like scale is slightly different, I am more concerned with the texturing, lighting, and rendering which is what I know is holding it back from looking more realistic.

Thanks!

the flat look is largely because you are viewing a linear image. you need to do some post. compressing the highlights and adding contrast.