BC1-1908 Homework – Ben Reichel

[smurfmier1985]

@notcastanza much better 😊

[Kent Trammell]

@notcastanza Thanks for brightening up the image, Ben. Looking at that version closely, you’ve done a great job with the wood grain detail and tonal variety. Same with the metal. The only thing missing is edge highlighting and crevice darkening. If you add that it will be an A 👍

[Ben Reichel]

@theluthier I did add the dirty vertex node but I might have the mix more towards the color node.  I’ll play with the slider to get the edges to show more.  Thanks!

[Ben Reichel]

Played around with some contrast/brightness with the dirty vertex node.

[odunov]

@notcastanza The planks look good however, your light source(s) look dim.

[Ben Reichel]

@drgnclw I setup a three light setup and each lamp is set above 1000.

My monitor is a high end gaming monitor and it looks fine brightness wise but when I look at my renders on a different computer (work computer) they look so much darker.  I might need to get a second monitor or something.

[Matthew Ullrey]

@notcastanza Beautiful work Ben. I love the deep variations in value of the wood and metal.

[odunov]

@notcastanza Maybe look around in the display’s settings and disable gaming related settings?

[Kent Trammell]

@notcastanza It may look a little dim in terms of lighting, but the texture looks much better! All those lovely details are reading well now. Nice job – I’ve upgraded your grade to an A.

[silentheart00]

@notcastanza Late to the party, but hey!  That chest looks good!  Nice texture work.

[Ben Reichel]

Playing around with some volumetrics and lighting.  I don’t have the fog quite right  but I’m starting to like the presentation.  I also added in some basic background shapes to give it a cave type of feel.  Any tips on making a good fog effect?

[spikeyxxx]

@notcastanza Love the presentation!

Did you plug a Volume Scatter Node into the Volume of the World?

[Ben Reichel]

@spikeyxxx No, I used a box for the volume container.  I’ll throw it on the world and see how it looks.  Thanks!

[Ben Reichel]

Thanks for the advice Spikey!  Adding the volumetrics to the world helped.

[concrescence]

nice job Ben.

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