Ol Lil House

photogen · December 2, 2007, 9:11am

Odly enought the thumbnail of this pic looks better than the full size pic… =(
I also have some questions on how to properly make a window w/ a shine on it. mine always turn out looking like bricks.

This is what i got in the end

I also cannot get my grass to look very smooth and soft… it looks really hard… i wanna know how to make the grass look soft.

blenditall · December 2, 2007, 9:28am

Looks OK, but this is what I would change:
Shingle texture – it is way too large to fit the proportion of the house. Scale it down and tile it or get a new texture.
Windows – you can make them ‘shiny’ by adding a different material (with ray mirror enabled) to the windows only, or separate them from the house and then add a new material (simpler).
Grass-- You can make it smoother looking by playing with the strand settings (shading buttons, in Links and Pipeline panel)

Also, try adding bump maps on pretty much everything…

Any questions about any of this, just ask.

photogen · December 2, 2007, 9:31am

oh thnx… and ya i forgot about the bump maps… thnx for remindin meh. and i will take ur advice =)

is it possible to use disp maps w/ nodes? doesnt seem to be workin.

GE-FORCE · December 2, 2007, 9:51am

nice work there … try decreasing the grass size and the sky texture flip it horizontally and removing the specular from the grass

photogen · December 2, 2007, 10:14am

How do i make light pass through the windows correctly
is that what raytransp is for?

photogen · December 12, 2007, 4:29pm

Not very relevant but i did some tests w/ terrain and will try to apply some of these principles to the texture on the ground in that ol lil house image.

Here is the result of my test:

W/O Nodes…

And yes i want to get into advanced terrain modelling.
I made this image by making many subdivisions on a 32x32 surface then adding a disp texture that would only elevate a part of the image.
I up the noise a bit until i got those mountains… then to get the ruggedness of the hills i add a disp texture of the SAME IMAGE.
Then I added a NOR of a randomly generated clouds effect w/ depth at max and some other stuffz i got a fairly satisfying result and if you were to try this DO NOT DO IT IN INTERNAL… YOUR results will be different… I did it in yafray for a more realistic result.

Here it is w/ a variation on the original composite node system… using a gaus (gaussian) blur to give it the “cinematic” effect.

W/ Nodes