Deadwood Cabin

BD3D · February 15, 2019, 1:31pm

Hi

im gonna place an architecture in the place of the boxe, i dont know yet how its gonna look like.
photoscanned assets from quixels!

i need to adjust every bark colors, put a lake with some morning breeze volumetrics, and place some vegetations in the backgrounds… already at 30 000 000 tris

pitibonom · February 16, 2019, 3:50pm

Love this ‘impossible’ scene !!!

straight away it makes me think about 2001 space odissey !
Make this cube black and let the viewer ‘imagine’

congratz !

BD3D · February 18, 2019, 3:27pm

i liked this houise so i model it into the environnement, gonna have an extension, simila form on her light side

finally i’ll put field instead of a lake

still have more work

BD3D · February 19, 2019, 6:22pm

i will need some plants …
and some interior stuffs

BD3D · February 19, 2019, 10:19pm

high poly AF… even if everything is instanced, the trees are also decimated to its minimum, i could bake billboard trees but im not wasting my time with that, its just too high poly anyway so lets go with it. its a shame parralax is not included inside of blender, i could just bake all the extreme scanned high polysmeshes ( in the front = 27 000 000 polys ) into low polys with some sexy custom parralax height map…

filibis · February 19, 2019, 10:48pm

Hey @BD3D , did you consider using an auto-retopology tool/workflow to reduce your poly count. Check this addon: BakeMyScan (I suggest especially Instant Meshes or Quadriflow tools). It provides almost same quality with a lot less dense mesh.
Remeshing/Baking times might not be fun though

BD3D · February 20, 2019, 12:23am

good idea

im not convince that a normal map will do the job as right as true geometry.
that’s why i want parralax occlusion mapping so bad in blender, there is no alternative to geometry displacement

BD3D · February 20, 2019, 1:17am

having 500 000 instances and having 5 instances have the same impact on memory ? does it ? because after i created my forest and field i got +10Gb of memory taken, what the heck is this…

speaking of field, i could spend a lot more time tweaking it and making it looks perfect but, well, i will add some fog over it and we will not see this zone well. 'dont want to get stuck on some details for an eternity

filibis · February 20, 2019, 1:29am

True. Especially it’s hard to preserve tiny geometries such as leaves and branches etc. But I find such assets (scans) are -most of the time- unnecessarily dense. So, with right settings you still preserve true geometry.
There is also a method in combination with weight painting (check description of this):

I don’t know much about parallax but maybe vector displacement could be a way to tackle it.

I have no idea how instances impact memory really and would like to know too.

BD3D · February 20, 2019, 1:42am

no vector displacement still need geometry to displace the mesh, im talking about this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k5IatsFXHk
this is the displacement fo the video-game industry, no geometry needed and it run real time. really convincing, sort of like a normal map on super steroid.

BD3D · February 20, 2019, 10:58am

TEST RENDER with morning breeze, need to adjust density

BD3D · February 20, 2019, 3:36pm

i just did some test with instancing, a geometry that take 500Mo of vram, i instanced 10x time i got 5Gb of vram taken… the correct way to do it is with GROUP INSTANCING… i really think its stupid… instances and group instances should have the SAME rendering behaviors, i really dont see any reasons its not doing it …

filibis · February 20, 2019, 6:02pm

Instancing works fine on 2.79.6 , so I think it’s not implemented in 2.80 yet. You could try to file a bug report.

BD3D · February 21, 2019, 12:01am

i try on 2.79 and last release of 2.8 are you shure? . is it my pc ???

could you test it please it take 2min??? do a render with a suzanne and a subsurf-modifier set to 5 iteration, 500 000 faces. and apply it. see how many vram (i got 117mo)

then alt-d suzanne 10 times and see the vram result (i got 1150mo)