nice model. are you using mental ray? if you are, i can maybe help you out cos i've had the same problem.

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Cogito, Ergo Sum

hehe thanx mate, well I found out that the reference I used for the uber complex model (lol) is already been used before to make it into a 3d scene so I don't feel like continuing it I'm thinking of going into more complexity in a whole new model altogether lol: something like [Link to lh5.ggpht.com]
Yeah its MR, so you can help me, w00t

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

aww nvm, ill just do some major modifications in current scene to make it not loop like that haha

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

if you do have those problems again, mess around with MR settings, and in particular, the shadow map settings (the sample range and size)

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Cogito, Ergo Sum

thnx Yeah, figured the mrPortal light shadow samples needed a bit of pump up

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

Honestly saying, MR is amazingly easy and great for doing interiors, arch&design mats are god's gift but i find it a bit to simple for doing exteriors, vray kick's MR ass at GI and speed.

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

ah, I always thought the other way around, thought MR is pretty hard then its competetors lol.. A&D are indeed kewl I used it for the wooden are in between the room in this one, I have yet to come across a good tutorial for vray, I saw one in the tut section, guess im gonna try it now..
and does every studio use vray? because I bet every studio can use mr cuz its free, thinking ahead, what if i don't get a job where they have vray

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

Best advantage of Vray is that you can specify and change almost every aspect of your render settings. And i don't believe that every studio uses vray, probably most of smaller studios use vray in combination with mental ray, they are both great render's and you wont regret learning them.

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

Ah, I was gonna start Vray at first, but then got told by a friend to start with brazil and then move to MR, though I never started Brazil, but got stuck with Mr.. guess ill try vray

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

give it a shoot, it will be worth it.

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

Ah, me teachers insist on sticking to manual lighting though, that way i'll understand better.. they say people use Vray cuz its easy and bla bla, and the outcomes are pretty generic too.. donno lol guess ill stick to MR, though they say use default one lmfao

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

nah i don't think so, lighting is crucial to every scene, in vray you won't get anything exceptional by just 2-3 clicks, it's the same deal as with all other renders, except maxwell, (that's something special), you have to light your scene, and know how to use lights.
I'm only saying that vray is very user friendly when you learn it a bit and also very fast.
It's a big plus in learning and knowing more than one render engine, and mental ray and vray are definitely worth it.

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The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

ah i see, i get the point now
yes yes yes mr and vray ftw!

I tried some tuts a while ago on aversis for vray, and ill try the one on here for interiors now

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

what you're teachers are saying is that learning how to light in a standard 3d renderer is great training for more advanced lighting techniques. If you just started with vray and turned on the skylight you can light a scene with just one spotlight and get a pretty nice look but when you light scenes you have to think about things like a DOP for a film. using many lights to achieve things like rim light and bouncing light into places to serve the composition of the image. If you grew into 3d with the scanline renderer you have a basis for that technique because nothing is for free with scanline. Plus its always good to know how to render a scene without GI for speed reasons. you arent always going to have the luxury of time when you are on a deadline.

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aye aye!
me understands nao
ty ty^

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

Nice scene. hope you get things running good and smooth

And welcome!

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thnx ^^

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

added some elements, changed some lighting.. please I need to know whats wrong with it, hard critics please QQ

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"I'm like a rookie paramedic to a siren, praying for an accident.."
Cute Is What We Aim For

I agree with Altopais. Lightening your scene is different everytime you build one. It takes some time to figure out what does what and how things react to eachother. but when you find your way in Vray controls there shouldn't be a big problem. It might be time consuming to get that right glimpse of light you want, but the result is a perfect render of course.

I love practicing around in Vray with lightning, and i think your scene looks good indeed.

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