Visitor Center

[aaronbeyer]

My buddy, Rob and I are working on some Jurassic Park stuff. Here is my visitor center so far. Ive modified it a little bit from what was in the movie - such as a balcony dining area and a viewing area in the back. Im not completely sold on the furnishings I have in the back so if anybody has some good reference as to some ideas, id appreciate it.

OH and they were just some quick renders so I know that the lighting needs work for sure

[Max Wolf]

cool

how did u render it?

[aaronbeyer]

it was just a quick render with a dome light. i dont usually set up final lights until i get into texturing.

[Max Wolf]

how do u do the dome light?

[aaronbeyer]

its one of the lights in 9.5 your standard light is a distant. i changed it to dome and increased the light quality to 8. then upped my anti aliasing to 10 under the camera properties. OH i added a point light behind the building but i dont really know what kind of effect thats having. like i said, these were literally quick setup render just so i could post something tonight

[aaronbeyer]

here is an update. ive done as much modeling as im going to do for now on the visitor center. ill get some lighting fixtures and stuff a little bit down the road, but ive begun to texture. so far im not really crazy about it but thats because im not really a fan of image maps and it feels like im using a lot of them. also, i built a dinosaur last night which i think for a one night project came out nicely.

any critiques are welcome.

[Derrick_SA]

pretty cool on the updates pics,

why don't you like image maps?

thanks,
derrick