Town Home

[whitetr]

Hey all,
Thought I'd share a project I'm working on and see what you all think. It's a smaller residential project in Denver. Here's a render of a Town Home row. I modeled this in 3DS Max, rendered with VRay.
I had to shrink it to 800x600.

Glen Loyd urged me to post work where I usually wouldn't...so I blame him

Thanks for looking!

Tracey White
Design Visualization Specialist
PB
Denver

[craigbennett]

Tracey
I like the shine on the top of the building. How did you make your grass, is it Hair & Fur?
Craig

[loydg]

Great work, Tracey! I love the grass too. Any chance you can share how you created it?

[dellis]

That's a nice image! My only remark would be a better sky map but seriously thats it....great image. Which image sampler and filter are you using? And which displacement type on the grass?

[whitetr]

Tracey
I like the shine on the top of the building. How did you make your grass, is it Hair & Fur?
Craig

Craig,
The grass is done with the VRayDisplacementMod on the "grass" object.
Quick point about doing it this way (if using VRay). I found that the object has to have 3 dimensions of mapping coords (i use a box UVW map modifier below the VRayDisplacementMod). If I use a planar map, the displacement messes up. As far as the setup in the modifier, I use the 2D (landscape) displacement and a grass bitmap I prefer with the blur turned down to .2 (ish). From there, I just adjust the height to taste

VRay displacement works real well as a modifier. The displacement on a material has never worked well for me. The 2D displacement renders quickly and since it treats the object as dynamic geometry, it's east on the RAM.

[whitetr]

That's a nice image! My only remark would be a better sky map but seriously thats it....great image. Which image sampler and filter are you using? And which displacement type on the grass?

Dwayne,
I'm just using Adaptive DMC with a min of 2 and max of 5 and an Area filter. And I agree with you about the sky. That's just the HDRI I'm using. Typically, I'd put something nicer in with Photoshop, but this was a render-and-go sort of deal.

[whitetr]

Hey gang,
I just wanted to post the "final" exterior images from this project. I say "final", but you know clients just can't stop making changes
Images have been sized down for posting.