8 sky scrapers, 725 faces, 47 seconds rendertime

Artwork Works in Progress
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http://img308.imageshack.us/img308/7236/8scrapers4ml.png

:smiley:

the 725 faces are counting the planes on the ground. I don’t know how many tris at the moment.

Each scraper has a 1024x1024 color map, a 512x512 tangent space normal map, and a 512x512 specularity map also mapped to raymirror.

My next goal is to build alpha mapped planes to simulate the ambient occlusion between the base of the skyscrapers and the ground.

I turned OSA down to 5, so this 1024 x 576 took only 41 seconds.
http://img134.imageshack.us/img134/3566/8skyscrapers4hy.th.png
turned the shadow sample up to 16, got this in 78 seconds:
http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/9396/8scrapersshadow166yq.th.png

Here is a look at a high poly scene render, this one took about 24 minutes, IIRC:

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/7643/9scrapers1sa.th.jpg

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Cool. It kinda looks like a Sim City metropolis.

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the buildings are looking really good, my only thing is that the grid city layout is ok but why not spice it up a bit and give some of the more prominent buildings more land, maybe give them there own parks, etc. Plus I didn’t see any enterances at the bottom of any of the buildings. Great start though!!