Originally Posted by Justin Hunt

Just looking at your sun settings, a couple of things

1) The photon Target is way too small, it should be just large enough to fit the windows, ruff guess 15 - 20 meters

Would this matter if my scale is 1:1mm. By increasing it to 15-20 meters, would that be really huge?

2) turn Off aerial Perspective, this is better for (as its name suggests) aerial shots where you want a bit of fog/distance haze on the horrizon, not so good for interirors.

Of course. Will do.

3) Increase the sun shadow softness to clean up the shaow edge grainyness

Will do.

Exposure control

1) Turn Off exterior daylight, you may need to play with the physical scale

I only have the daylight system ( mr sun & mr sky ) as light source for this scene. Does that mean I have to increase the physical scale higher than what I currently have?

GI

1) Increase the photon sampling radius, try 200 - 500mm

Are you pertaining to Volumes: Maximum Num. Photons Per Sample?

2) Increase the Max trace Depth, gets more light bouncing around , you may need to compensate with exposure control

Should I keep Max. Reflections & Max. Refractions the same?

3) leave Decay at 2

4) Turn On "All objects generate GI"

FG

1) increase the interpolate to 80 -100 smooths out the blotchies

2) Noise filtering to standard, anything higher slows down rendering too much

Yeah. I just figured it will make things smoother but almost none have changed.

jhv

Originally Posted by SandmanNinja

Hi...

A few random comments as I'm walking out the door for work:
* the scale/ratio of the floor looks off. It looks too big and like it's stretched too long.

I agree with you. I will adjust this.

* the pipe near the ceiling - I think the corners where it bends should be filleted/chamfered a bit, to round them off. If it's PVC pipe, I don't think it bends that sharply

It is a zig-zagged SS tubular. According to the plans (refer to attachment 01.jpg), it is pointy at the corners not chamfered. The perspective is making it distorted as it is near the foreground. Any suggestions how to fix this?

* the shadows by the desks are darker/stronger than the shadows of the coffee tables. Be sure to use AO (under the special effects tab).

Yeah. I knew that will be noticeable. I only have the daylight systems as light source and relying on the photons to illuminate the interior.

* I'd turn some of the chairs slightly, to avoid the repeated identicle-ness

Yeah. At first I used (everybody's favorite) a Barcelona chair then a Le Corbusier lounge chair in the scene. Until I realized they selected a chair from a catalogue. I have to model it from scratch and applying UVW map on it was really a pain. That's the closest I could get. But I guess turning it slightly would be a good idea.

* maybe some magazines on the coffee table?

I really wanted to do that.

* the bottom of the window closest to the camera looks a bit blown out, but it could just be a sunny day.

Yep. MR sun setting is at 12 - ish in the afternoon

* Nice reflections in the frosted glass on the left
* nice wavy surface on the ceiling - my work has something like that in it's lobby, too - not sure why... hehe - would it happen it came from www.3-form.com?

* nice rug/foot-wiping-rug by the front door - couldn't get it right in my bump map so I applied noise in photoshop. Works better that way.

Keep the WIPs coming!

Originally Posted by Ky Lane

For mine, it needs some interior lighting - looks only sun lit at the moment, some halogens over the desk or something, give some nice sharp shadows etc.

Originally Posted by Ky Lane

Justin would have a better idea - he's my jedi master in terms of MR at the moment

But personally, Id just have some nice halogen fixture over the desks.

What part of Van you from? I spent 8 months there, and am looking to head back for a MTB holiday soonish