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Show some of your Renderings
Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:10:14 GMT
Author:Soul Assassin
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 8:10 pm (GMT+1)
Bricklyne Clarence wrote: Soul Assassin wrote: Impressive work Bricklyne Clarence!
How did you manage to have gradiental fills (soft shadows) on the drawings (elevations and plans)? Did you add them in archicad or perhaps photoshop?
Thanks,
The gradient fills were manually done just in the Elevation windows in ArchiCAD using dedicated layers and transparency (window background) in conjunction with ArchiCAD shadow turned on.
It's just a question of knowing how soft shadows fall on surfaces that are only partly lit of even completely lit by light. A lot of cues are taken from classical drawing and painting methods and techniques (Leornardo Da vinci's 'Chiaroscuro' and 'sfumato', for example). Alternatievely you can observe how it happens with the renders or with photographs from real life.
But it wasn't necessary to do anything in Photoshop; even though I do wish ArchiCAD's gradient fill had two-sided fills and multiple color fills and generally more options like Photoshop's gradient tool does.
Thank you again for the good advice, it is much appreciated!
_________________Ni Ten Ichi Ryu
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Artlantis save disappeared?
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:20:51 GMT
Author:Karl Ottenstein
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:20 am (GMT+1)
Not stupid, just a common misunderstanding about how AC works. In principal, there is no reason that one could not save from a 2D view - saving what WOULD be generated in the 3D window, given the marquee, cutting planes, etc But, historically, AC has only offered saving to 3D formats from the 3D window itself.
Almost everyone has run into this at some point.
Cheers,
Karl
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Artlantis save disappeared?
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:58:27 GMT
Author:Rlcosta
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 3:58 am (GMT+1)
Ok Karl...how unbelievably stupid of me! I never noticed I was doing the save as when the 3D window was open.....!!!!!!
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Artlantis save disappeared?
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:40 GMT
Author:Karl Ottenstein
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:23 am (GMT+1)
You can only save to Artlantis from the 3D window. Any chance that you were trying with some other view active?
K
_________________AC 15 US with MEP, ED, VBE, Artlantis 4, Adobe CS5.5, Piranesi 6, etc.
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Artlantis save disappeared?
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:03:03 GMT
Author:Rlcosta
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:03 am (GMT+1)
OK, downloaded the demo.
Played with it a bit and its fun.
Shut down Archicad to do other things and when I restarted AC15 the "save as Artlantis 4.0" is gone..for that matter Artlantis 3.0 and 2.0 are gone as well?
Checked the plugins and says they are loaded.
What gives? Do you think it has anything to do with the latest update?
Rob
_________________Breukel Costa Architects Pty Ltd
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Revit 2011 Windows 7 in VMware on Imac
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Show some of your Renderings
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:17:22 GMT
Author:Bricklyne Clarence
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:17 pm (GMT+1)
TMA_80 wrote: Great renderings are posted here....
And Brickyine I second Soul, Great work , could you give us more informations about:
- The entourage on the exterior views ( especially the trees) ..
.and the maxwell render rendering time(s) compared to vray.
-What do you use for post-production ? any specific filter ?
Thanks
Thanks,
For the exterior views, as I mentioned, those were done in 3ds Max with VRay, and the primary reason for that is because of it's ability to handle high polycount scenes with a lot of geometry for one thing, and then Vray's ability to turn a lot of those high poly objects into "Proxies" which can be instanced and multiplied through out the scene without overloading your computer during render.
In this case I used about 3-5 models of Fir and Pine tree models turned into proxies and then scattered in the surrounding site.
Unfortunately the Fir and Pine models were really High resolution and heavy with a lot of detail so even with the Proxies, each exterior image averaged between 5-8 hours each.
I did a batch render of about 8-10 exterior views and let it run on a computer that was not being used for about one and half to 2 days.
I suppose I could have gotten them doen faster if I used bitmap billboards (2D planes) but since I was doing overhead renders in some cases those would have looked really bad and taken longer to set up for each specific scene.
The interior views were a combination of Maxwell and Artlantis.
Maxwell primarily because it's light quality is unmatched, and also the direct ArchiCAD plugin allows you to render directly from your ArchicAD 3D window and taking advantage of the marquee tool to limit the render to only the geometry you want to render. As for render times it's kind of hard to say, because I would have about 2-3 renders running on the same computer I was working on (another great thing about Maxwell - rendering on low priority which allows you to continue using your computer while it renders in the background) and at times I would reduce cPU affinity for each rendering process to 1 core each as I used the rest for ArchiCAD. So that probably made it run slower.
But overall I let them run for about 4-5 days as I was working and then used Maxwell's multi-light to extract night views and different lighting condition render views.
Artlantis was much fast taking about an hour to 2 or 3 per render depending on the view.
As for post-production it was specifically in Photoshop obviously and for some of the effects like Chromatic Abberation, vignetting and light streaks I used Digital Film Tools' 55mm v7.5 suite of filters - although I have also recently developed a liking for the freeware Motiva Realcamera postprocessing tool.
But I also took advantage of Vray's new camera bloom and glare that allows you to composite it as a seperate layer in Photoshop and control how much using layers.
Other than that it was just curves and levels in photoshop.
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Show some of your Renderings
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:16:48 GMT
Author:Bricklyne Clarence
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:16 pm (GMT+1)
Soul Assassin wrote: Impressive work Bricklyne Clarence!
How did you manage to have gradiental fills (soft shadows) on the drawings (elevations and plans)? Did you add them in archicad or perhaps photoshop?
Thanks,
The gradient fills were manually done just in the Elevation windows in ArchiCAD using dedicated layers and transparency (window background) in conjunction with ArchiCAD shadow turned on.
It's just a question of knowing how soft shadows fall on surfaces that are only partly lit of even completely lit by light. A lot of cues are taken from classical drawing and painting methods and techniques (Leornardo Da vinci's 'Chiaroscuro' and 'sfumato', for example). Alternatievely you can observe how it happens with the renders or with photographs from real life.
But it wasn't necessary to do anything in Photoshop; even though I do wish ArchiCAD's gradient fill had two-sided fills and multiple color fills and generally more options like Photoshop's gradient tool does.
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Show some of your Renderings
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:33:05 GMT
Author:TMA_80
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 6:33 pm (GMT+1)
Great renderings are posted here....
And Brickyine I second Soul, Great work , could you give us more informations about:
- The entourage on the exterior views ( especially the trees) ..
.and the maxwell render rendering time(s) compared to vray.
-What do you use for post-production ? any specific filter ?
Thanks
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Show some of your Renderings
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:16:43 GMT
Author:Soul Assassin
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 5:16 pm (GMT+1)
Impressive work Bricklyne Clarence!
How did you manage to have gradiental fills (soft shadows) on the drawings (elevations and plans)? Did you add them in archicad or perhaps photoshop?
_________________Ni Ten Ichi Ryu
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