Just some more Arch Viz practice in my spare time.
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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!
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Appreciated, thanks Bart 
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Beautifully done! I really like overall image. Would you care to share some details? Like lighting/rendering settings and post process?
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Thanks for your kind comment.
Nothing special here Just an HDRI for the environment and a weak Area light behind the camera to help reduce noise.
Render settings are at default except I increased Transmission for the glass to about 6 or 7 bounces.
Clamping is set to 9 for both direct and indirect bounces.
I used only glare and denoise in Blender composite then took it into Gimp for some Brightness and contrast+colour correction then added a low sharpness filter.
I also use ACES display for colour management which you need to install into BlenderâŚthis is superior to Filimic as highlights/bright areas are not clampedâŚthey tend to have a dull greyish appearance with Filmic much less âRealisticâ look. Hope this was helpfull
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Thanks for your reply with the details of your process. I usually use Luxcore for rendering since it produces more pleasing images in my opinion, but your portfolio (they are all great!) convinced me to give Cycles a try again.
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Iâve used Both Luxcore and Corona in the past because I wasnât pleased with the results I was getting with Cycles but I moved back to Cycles when Corona became unusable through lack of support for BlenderâŚI stuck at it and it certainly paysâŚitâs definitely possible to get just as good results from Cycles once you know all its nuances and little tricksâŚI was convinced Cycles was not capable of producing images with the same quality as Corona, Maxwell, Vray etc but I was wrong so I say stick at it and it will come.
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I will definitely give it a try! Thanks,
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Wow!!
Looks 1000% real!
Good job! 
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Itâs just beautiful. But I donât understand the infatuation for imperfections with artists. The mirror looks so dirty that is hardy ever seen in real life. Even if I take a picture of my irty mirror it doesnât look that dirty. Itâs like to make thigns realistic, artists add too much imperfections that speaks âhey itâs a render, look at this imperfection.â
Instead of making the imperfections this prominent, it should be subtle. People actually keep their clean home and so it will be real hard to find such an unclean surface. The imperfections should be subtle.
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It looks fantastic. Iâm also curious about your little tricks to make it look as good as commercial render engines. Do you think you could make a comparison to a filmic render?
Hi Claus,
The only difference you would see would be a washed out look to the bright whites and less vibrant colours with filmic.
Aces has a wider colour range and also built in LUT tables. This may seem small but it makes a huge difference to the realism but the âlittle tricksâ are in the details.
For instance the bench and the mirror are sculpted from a basic model (only in closeups obviously).
The wall outside is displaced with a very dense mesh.
If I had more time I would do a comparison but I donât have GPU(old graphics card) so it too nearly 4 hrs to render. Hope this helps
Thanks.
Aces doesnât âhaveâ a wider colour range. It just handles the tonemapping differently. You should be able to get the exact same range out of both. I was mainly curious about any lighting tricks. Would you mind sending a packed blend?
Ok I should have said more âvibrantâ colours to be more accurate.
If you send me instruction on how to do this, I will send you the scene but I assure you there are no lighting tricks just a decent hdri and an Area light in the scene.
The rugged wooden piece of furniture is especially attractive: the wood textures are very believable, and Iâd like to have such a piece of real-world urniture in my foyer. One thing that I would do is to introduce some more color, such as a light blue or red. For instance, among the trees in the distance. Or, paint the door frame or the back wall. Put colorful pottery on the table.
Thank for the feedback Usernew,
the imperfections were less obvious in earlier renders, they became more obvious when I altered the lighting and didnât notice until half way through the final render.
But I can live with it
Thankyou sundialsvc4,
Yea the wood took a long time to get right, just scouring the internet for a decent wood texture took long enough.
Ha Iâll leave as is for this one, it took nearly 4 hrs to render(no GPU) but youâre right about adding a little colour but then every render I do I feel I should have done this or added that or added this
You can use âpatchâ rendering to fix it without having to re-render the whole scene. Also, can you show us how you did the water in the pot here: Accurate liquid in glass rendering - #48 by Calandro
Iâm intrigued, can you explain âpatchâ rendering please.
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