wood floor material 'gift'

Ernest Burden · June 17th, 2005

I had posted this on CGtalk when someone asked for ideas about wood floors, might as well put it here, as well.

This bit of floor (c4d file, some polys and 1 mat) was a combination of mapping and modeling--no textures--just shaders within Cinema.

The mapping will fall apart if moved even a little. But the texture tag, if applied to a single plane shoud behave nicely. It would need to be rotated 45 degrees using the texture tool for a regular floor.

It is a piece of the floor in this illustration:

Eric · June 17th, 2005

Wow Ernest, I've not seen this image before. It's spectacular! Mind sharing a bit of your process for creating the image? Particularly about your post-processing method?

Ernest Burden · June 17th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Eric

Mind sharing a bit of your process for creating the image? Particularly about your post-processing method?

It's more of the same. Have you read my earlier posts answering that basic question? Or read my project log from earlier this year? It's all covered in those.

But in a short version--

I take a regular GI raytrace and add noise, play with contrast and saturation. That's it.

Thanks for the kind words, too!

STRAT · June 17th, 2005

EBIII has a wonderful style.

Ernest Burden · June 17th, 2005

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Originally Posted by STRAT

EBIII has a wonderful style.

Thanks. I'm tired of it, but it sells renderings.

Stephen

Would you DL the file and give me an opinion on the shader? It's a frankenstein, but I was pleased with the results. I wonder what you think?

STRAT · June 17th, 2005

sure, no probs. but it'll have to wait until i get to work on monday. i no have cinema at home

i'll report back....

CHE · June 17th, 2005

Ernest,

This rendering is sweet. I really like what you do to your images in post-production. If I'm not mistaking, it looks like you apply a reflective material to some of your geometry just to get a reflection pass and then use it as a layer in Photoshop. I've learned tons just by looking at and analyzing your beautiful renderings. Thanks for sharing.

Ernesto

Ernest Burden · June 17th, 2005

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Originally Posted by CHE

If I'm not mistaking, it looks like you apply a reflective material to some of your geometry just to get a reflection pass and then use it as a layer in Photoshop.

I do. That's because I can. Cinema easily saves layered files, and I love being able to play around with reflections in post. Although, I rarely adjust them by very much, as I've already set the reflectivity to what I want as setup to render.

Tim Nelson · June 17th, 2005

Nice one! Does c4d do area shadows? Those shadows from the sun stick out to me as being just a little too crisp compared to the rest of the rendering.

Ernest Burden · June 17th, 2005

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Originally Posted by Tim Nelson

Nice one! Does c4d do area shadows? Those shadows from the sun stick out to me as being just a little too crisp compared to the rest of the rendering.

Yes! But not this week.

Area shadows are so slow, along with its beautiful 'stochastic' rendering mode. Too slow for production.

Ah, but now I have Maxwell, and....oh. It's slow, too. Nice shadows, though.

Besides, I have always used sharp shadows or sunlight, because that was just what you do. And I think in reality that shadow would still be fairly crisp.

June 17th, 2005	#1 (permalink)
Ernest Burden Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Ossining, NY USA Posts: 4,999 Name: Ernest Burden III	wood floor material 'gift' I had posted this on CGtalk when someone asked for ideas about wood floors, might as well put it here, as well. This bit of floor (c4d file, some polys and 1 mat) was a combination of mapping and modeling--no textures--just shaders within Cinema. The mapping will fall apart if moved even a little. But the texture tag, if applied to a single plane shoud behave nicely. It would need to be rotated 45 degrees using the texture tool for a regular floor. It is a piece of the floor in this illustration: __________________ Ernest Burden III AcmeDigital architectural rendering

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Eric Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Denton, TX Age: 33 Posts: 385 Name: Eric Adams	Re: wood floor material 'gift' Wow Ernest, I've not seen this image before. It's spectacular! Mind sharing a bit of your process for creating the image? Particularly about your post-processing method? __________________ Eric Adams http://particlerealities.blogspot.com/

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STRAT Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK. Age: 36 Posts: 6,555 Name: Stephen Leworthy	Re: wood floor material 'gift' EBIII has a wonderful style.

June 17th, 2005	#6 (permalink)
STRAT Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK. Age: 36 Posts: 6,555 Name: Stephen Leworthy	Re: wood floor material 'gift' sure, no probs. but it'll have to wait until i get to work on monday. i no have cinema at home i'll report back....

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CHE Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: St. Louis Posts: 825 Name: Ernesto Pacheco	Re: wood floor material 'gift' Ernest, This rendering is sweet. I really like what you do to your images in post-production. If I'm not mistaking, it looks like you apply a reflective material to some of your geometry just to get a reflection pass and then use it as a layer in Photoshop. I've learned tons just by looking at and analyzing your beautiful renderings. Thanks for sharing. Ernesto

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Tim Nelson Veteran Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Providence, RI Age: 30 Posts: 1,639 Name: Tim Nelson	Re: wood floor material 'gift' Nice one! Does c4d do area shadows? Those shadows from the sun stick out to me as being just a little too crisp compared to the rest of the rendering. __________________ Tim Nelson timnelson3d.com

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