Time to Show YOUR GOODIES!

[Rashid_Garuba]

My latest Project, a 26,000 SF home to be built in Pflugerville, Texas:

 

https://skfb.ly/QqUY

 

DJP

David... Are those A/C units under the Garage Windows???  I remember a 21,000 Sf. home I designed for an Indian Family with a racquet-ball court in the basement.. They kept saying: Bigger.. BIGGER!.. Not easy to switch to the limitless budget mindset.. Of course there was a limit when it came to fees..

[yusuf-333]

OK, so I can't leave this BMW symbol alone.

Here I replaced the cardboard cutout 2D trees with a couple

of Frog 3D trees (Sweet Birch I believe they are) and threw in

a stock Chief 3D Backdrop. Starting to get some really nice

interplay between the reflections and shadows.

 

 

Check out the Carbon Fiber texture (Patent Pending). I think I

tried about as many settings as Edison tried filaments for his

lite bulb before I stumbled onto this look. I like the way the

"grain" of the weave runs in all the right directions and follows

the contours of the curves.

 

 

This is the look that the kids today called "murdered-out"

 

 

Personally I prefer something more understated... like this.

 

 

Ninety nine and a half won't do.... Got to have 100% Chief

 

 

 

Rich, your experiments are fantastic! 199%. The certified CA.T has gone the 100%, yet can't......

[Rich_Winsor]

Rich, your experiments are fantastic! 199%. The certified CA.T has gone the 100%, yet can't......

 

Thanks Yusuf. I'm with you, in believing that Chief has way

more capabilities than the average user is aware of. With

Ray Tracing the problem is the time it takes to explore these

capabilities. I can appreciate that the average Professional

User who is trying to get a design and Con Docs out the door

doesn't have the time to explore all of these possibilities.

 

But the good news is that I do have the time and will continue

to explore what can be achieved with Chief's tools so that other

users can at least be aware of what results are attainable.

[Dennis_Gavin]

Kudos to both Rich and Syko!

[dshall]

Just another fun day of design work.

 

Good stuff,  was that all done in CA?  I do not think so.  Really well done.

[CJSpud]

I want those cars in my driveway.  Super work!

[kMoquin]

Nice work! Did you model that landscape or is it a backdrop?

[Rich_Winsor]

I want those cars in my driveway.  Super work!

 

Thanks Curt. For about 140 LARGE you can make it happen.

Or for about the price of an additional Chief license per month 

you could lease one.  I didn't even know it was a hybrid.

 

http://www.caranddriver.com/bmw/i8

[Rich_Winsor]

Nice work! Did you model that landscape or is it a backdrop?

 

Thanks Kevin. It's a stock Chief backdrop. The trick is to

get the backdrop and the edge of Chief's terrain to merge

seamlessly. Although the backdrop is titled "grassy", all

the grass in the shots is Chief's stock OOB terrain. I'm a

compulsive tweaker.  I played with the position and

rotation of all the tree symbols to get the best combination

of cast shadows and view of the background through the

trees. Actually the angle of the sun in the backdrop doesn't

match the angle of Chief's sun in the view but I won't tell

anybody if you won't.

[Ridge_Runner]

Just another fun day of design work.

I am curious, Designsyko (don't know your real name), is that watercolor rendering done in CA and tweaked in another software, or totally done in another software? Nice!

 

Mike

[HumbleChief]

Nice work Designsyko!

+1

[SCI_Design]

3D model done in Chief, then rendered with affects in Lumion.  The combination of Chief and Lumion is incredible.   All the lanscaping was done in Lumion - adding plans, rocks, mulch beds is a breeze.  Time to get all this done in Lumion was about an hour.

[Ridge_Runner]

3D model done in Chief, then rendered with affects in Lumion.  The combination of Chief and Lumion is incredible.   All the lanscaping was done in Lumion - adding plans, rocks, mulch beds is a breeze.  Time to get all this done in Lumion was about an hour.

Too bad I don't have Lumion (yet) and too bad I am not immediately up to speed with it!

 

Mike

[Rich_Winsor]

Here is a little vignette I created to explore the effects of

using the Compute Caustics option of Photon Mapping.

 

For far more info than you probably care to see on how I set

up this scene check out this thread in the "Tips and Techniques"

forum

 

https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/index.php?/topic/10323-exploring-ray-tracing-–-global-illumination-compute-caustics/

 

[DRAWZILLA]

Nice, Rich

[Peter_Grant]

The house, landscape, and most of the interior furnishings were modeled in CA.  Some of the 3D assets (ie trees) were found in the sketchup warehouse.

A secret sauce of software was used to bring the model into the publishing platform.  

Took a little bit of time to get the presentation behaving the way I wanted, but overall I'm satisfied with the end result.

 

http://3d.cl3ver.com/xHCB2

 

Need to market a spec home or design?  Welcome to the future.

[Rich_Winsor]

Check this out. Here is a "High Definition" close up
taken from my caustics test image. If my math is
correct this image has 16 pixels for every pixel in
the original image.

Original Image: 1600 x 1279 pixels = 2,046,400 total pixels
Close up Image: 6400 x 5116 pixels = 32,742,400 total pixels

 

          32,742,400/2,046,400 = 16

 

So what I did was to re-ray trace the original image at the

higher pixel count which produces an image that is

approximately 36" x 28". Then I took the image into PSP

and cropped it down to the close up Image which is a

more manageable 12" x 8".

 

Running these ray traces is not for the faint of heart. Last

night I started the ray trace with no limit on the number of

passes and went to bed. When I got up 8 hours later and

checked the progress it was on pass 50 something so we

had a little breakfast and let it cook until it reached 60

passes. Total time approximately 8 1/2 hours.

 

This was so much fun I'm thinking about starting an

enormous ray trace and going on vacation. When I get

back I will either have and amazing image or I will find

my computer in a puddle on the floor.

 

I can envision using this technique in conjunction with

other views. For example you could have an "artsy"

front elevation image done in say watercolor and line

and then have a hi-def insert showing the entry way.

 

 

[TheKitchenAbode]

Rich - very nice!! You're now shooting with a high end digital camera.

 

Is it just my imagination or is there something strange going on in your home, seems like you have an infestation of aliens; or is it just your method of watermarking your work?

 

Graham

[Chopsaw]

Rich, Amazing work but I think you might have just voided your computer warranty. That looks like a real picture to me, are you sure that is not your reflection in the vase?

[TheKitchenAbode]

Rich - with all those pixels I dropped it into Photoshop and did a few quick colour adjustments. 1st pic is your original, 2nd is the adjusted.

 

Graham

 

[Rich_Winsor]

I'm always on the lookout for interesting seamless textures.

I found these on the web somewhere and "lifted" several of

them to add to my library. They have a sort of Art Deco(ish),

or is that Art Nouveau(esque) flavor. Here is a little vignette

I threw together using a couple of them for wall covering.

 

BTW, I forgot that this RT was cooking so this might be a

personal best for me of 275 passes.

 

[Dennis_Gavin]

Looking good Rich!  Might have a hard time finding a job to use them on though.....;o)

[jcaffee]

I've been running through some exercises to bring those CA skills back up to speed after an extended absence.  Anyway, this room was a tray ceiling project turned painted floor exercise.  I'm happy with these results.

 

jon

[Chiefer]

It's coming back Jon.

[jcaffee]

Thanks brother Jintu!  I've obviously reverted back to the first day of design school in my composition: Unity, Variety, Repetition.

 

jon