Interior Study | WIP

[Creativetone]

Hi!
This is some sort of study to learn LightWave render engine and Nodes better.
It has been a while when I have post anything 3D here.

Scene is based my very old .. school work (2009 - 3ds Max+MentalRay).
I converted and remodeled everything in LightWave Modeler (a bit help of GoZ<->ZBrush<->Modo)

Scene is lit by Denis Pontonnier's Sunsky.

I want to thanks this forum, The LightWave Users Group, great tutorials you can find there.
I liked a lot Andrew Combs: Advanced Shading in LightWave tutorial.
And same goes to RebelHill's Nodal tutorials.

Wires

RAW Render (Rough and a bit Splotchy)

POST process

Salt Lamp Material Test

[nemofish]

Good job!

[BeeVee]

Excellent work! How long do you think it took you to recreate your Max scene in LightWave and getting it to this point? Could you share your GI settings, please and your renders are not done in Octane? I saw that you had Octane nodes in the surfacing screenshot.

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[Danner]

Nice image, I do see a distracting composition/camera placement issue, you have the camera set exactly centered, and you have a line running down the middle, it looks very unnatural that the center lines line up perfectly. Move your camera a little to the side and rotate it a bit and it should look more natural and interesting.

[Creativetone]

@nemofish - Thanks!

@BeeVee - Thank you! I have worked on this about week and half.
This is LightWave 11.6 native rendering. I have not used much of Octane or Kray.
To me LightWave native is natural and easiest to work with.

@Danner - Thanks, Danner for the tip! I try to find interesting viewpoint/composition and correct (shift/tilt) lens (focal length) when I make final shots.

RENDER Settings and SK Portals on windows

[Creativetone]

[prometheus]

looks very promising, I like the way the light floods in too the room through the window, and gives different highlights and shadows in the room.
needs some more coloring and fabrics later on I guess.

[ary3d]

nice looking render, can you share what type of post work did you do? ( curves? vignette? hdr tonemap? etc... )

thanks, David

[Creativetone]

My old trusted work machine was broken many days (power supply failure)
It is now fixed and I can focus this project.

@prometheus - yes, I like very much this kind of lighting conditions.
My intention is shade and texture this scene nicely and same time learn how to use different mystic shaders.

@ary3d - hi, I am a fan of Red Giant Magic Bullet PhotoLooks.
I save renders to 32bit EXR and then adjust curves / tonemap.
These WIP renders uses very basic post processing = curves to brighten and add contrast -> extreme careful sharpening -> light diffusion/haze/bloom -> blur/vignette

[Snosrap]

Very nice start! But one question - why is it one big object model and not separate models put together in Layout? Just curious about that workflow as it would seem very limiting to me.

[Creativetone]

@Snosrap - It just went that bad (very bad) way
btw. I have already splitted this.

RAW Render

POST Process

[Creativetone]

RAW Render

POST Process

[50one]

Really Nice!

just wondering if you ever tried render the specular pass on separate scene and combine in post?

[Creativetone]

@50one - Thanks!
Maybe I should try that. I have only basic knowledge how to use render passes.
I have learned a lot when working on this project and I have thought to freeze this now.
I have other things to do..

[50one]

@50one - Thanks!
Maybe I should try that. I have only basic knowledge how to use render passes.
I have learned a lot when working on this project and I have thought to freeze this now.
I have other things to do..

No need to use render passes, just create two sets of your scenes, one normal and another one with one surface to experiment on(can be used to get ambient occlusion and so on) that's why I do, still can't wrap my head around DP filter so I'm just doing it ol' school!

Best,
Simon