Dennis_Gavin Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 Yes. Thanks Dennis. That magazine rack was the selling point of the project yeah, I'm sure! ha,ha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted April 19, 2016 Share Posted April 19, 2016 OK, so I'm one of those people who can't leave well enough alone. Took the hood hinges we made for the truck and had them plated. Well, in Chief anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kMoquin Posted May 4, 2016 Share Posted May 4, 2016 Mixed use in the original Portland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 So, here is my humble dream, my vision if you will for the front porch, entry and foyer of our modest farm house. This is a 100% Chief generated Ray Trace image. No artificial additives or ingredients. Everything in the image is stock generic Chief content from the Library Browser with the exception of the beveled and leaded glass in the door and the young lady which are 2D images I added to the User Catalog. I let this one cook for 100 passes which took a little under 2 hours. I threw just about everything at this image. Photon Mapping, Caustics, Ambient Occlusion, you name it. No Bloom or Focal Blur however as I wanted a nice crisp image to draw the viewer in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 She can stay! ;o) Oh, there's a ray trace image there too....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 She can stay! ;o) Oh, there's a ray trace image there too....... LOL! I have to admit I was having a Pygmalionesque moment while I was converting her image to a transparent background. By way of perspective this is what the front porch looked like after the owner had "cleaned" it up before we had a walkthru to check out the property. As is customary AAA issued the Homeowners Insurance Policy Binder sight unseen. After they sent out an agent to view the house first hand they told us the binder was good for 30 days but after that they were going to decline to issue the policy. Fortunately I have a pretty good relationship with my agent and he agreed to let me get the place squared away before they pulled the plug on me. I thru up some plywood sheathing and sent him this picture and AAA issued the policy. Sure the house is a little rough but the entry doors are plumb and square and seem to be top notch quality. You have to start somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Took the Bimmer i8 (from the BMW Manufacturer Catalog) out for a spin last night. I'd have to say these are some very nice symbols with a dozen materials that can be changed entirely or have their properties altered. As always 100% Chief output. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted July 1, 2016 Share Posted July 1, 2016 Don't these usually come with a hot sexy model standing next to them?? ;o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chopsaw Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Funny I never even noticed the printer and stand in the background of your last ray trace. Nice looking Bimmer though Rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Don't these usually come with a hot sexy model standing next to them?? ;o) Now Dennis, are you trying to get me in trouble? In today's overly PC culture, using attractive young women in your images can be a slippery slope. I'd hate to offend anyone with the crass use of eye candy to enhance my images. Not to mention that hot and sexy are highly subjective terms. That being said, is this what you had in mind? Took the Bimmer to LaLa land. "And those Hollywood nights In those Hollywood hills It was looking so right It was giving him chills" All Chief all of the time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 NICE! And the car looks good too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 I fail to see the humor (or the car) in the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 That offends me so much I have to lock the door Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yusuf-333 Posted July 3, 2016 Share Posted July 3, 2016 Now Dennis, are you trying to get me in trouble? In today's overly PC culture, using attractive young women in your images can be a slippery slope. I'd hate to offend anyone with the crass use of eye candy to enhance my images. Not to mention that hot and sexy are highly subjective terms. That being said, is this what you had in mind? Took the Bimmer to LaLa land. "And those Hollywood nights In those Hollywood hills It was looking so right It was giving him chills" All Chief all of the time. Rich, your RT are really awesome. Your secrets please?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted July 4, 2016 Share Posted July 4, 2016 Rich, your RT are really awesome. Your secrets please?! Thank you for the kind words Yusuf. They mean a lot coming from such a creative and talented Chief user. As everybody knows Ray Tracing is an acquired skill and there are many factors that go into getting good results. However I would say the one "secret" that will help to get good results is to keep the elements in your ray trace view as simple as possible. There are so many possible combinations of Materials, Material Properties and lighting effects that one can easily become swamped by the possibilities and find it hard to distinguish which changes are causing which results. For this reason I find it is most productive to start out by limiting the elements to only the most essential in the view and then experiment with changing their properties one at a time to see if the changes are taking your image in the direction you want. For this type of experimentation it also helps to limit the Image Size of the RT to something that is usually considerably smaller than the Active Window Size. This will considerably speed up the test RT's and then when you get some promising results you can increase the image size to what you want your final image to be. By way of an example the ray trace of the Palladium consists of only 2 elements (3 if you count the camera). The theater is an image that was converted to a Chief Backdrop and the symbol of the BMW. I used tiled Plan and Perspective Full Overview windows to position the symbol in the right orientation to look correct in the RT view. I did make extensive changes to the Materials and Material Properties of the BMW i8 Symbol including the paint, glass, accent colors, head and taillights and mirrors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidJPotter Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 My latest Project, a 26,000 SF home to be built in Pflugerville, Texas: https://skfb.ly/QqUY DJP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmejerry Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Nice David. His and her's with a garage in the middle? Everything is bigger in Texas comes to mind as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaskan_Son Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Nice David. His and her's with a garage in the middle? Everything is bigger in Texas comes to mind as well Yep. I thing they've probably been feeling the need to compensate since, oh I don't know, around January 3, 1959 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 That's not a home, it's a municipal building! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRAWZILLA Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Take the money you made on that one and vacation for a month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny Posted July 5, 2016 Share Posted July 5, 2016 Amazes me sometimes how much SF some people want. I bought some property from Burl Ives widow and she showed me their home, which was very much like the home designed by David in size. 2 separate homes connected - they lived together "under the same roof" but in completely different "residences". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rich_Winsor Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis_Gavin Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCI_Design Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Just another fun day of design work. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justmejerry Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Nice work Designsyko! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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