Simple Garden Hose

[dmills]

Hi everyone,

This is my first non-noobish attempt at a good render. I couldn’t think of what to make, so while looking around, I decided to try modelling a hose, to see if I could get it to wrap right etc. I have uploaded the wire and a render. I have no clue on where to place the lamps, if someone can point me to a tut or tell me how, that would be great!

A render:

Wires:

Now, I know what you’re thinking, Geez, you can see the bends in that hose! I know, I didn’t want to subsurf it yet because I knew the render would take a lot longer. I plan on adding some grass using particles, Making the wall in the back to be brick, and adding a texture + normal map to the hose.

So far this has taken me about a half hour to make, it took maybe five minutes to render.

So, this is my first adventure into rendering, please tell me everything I did wrong so I can fix it!

Thanks for lookin’,
-Rozzy

[scdelf]

Your shadow on the wall might be a little sharp, and the scene might be a little bright, but that will be more or less noticeable after adding more environment. So I say good job and keep building your scene, once that’s mostly done, then you’ll want to consider changes to your lighting and composition.
good job so far.

[blender_spartan]

yo made this harddd for yourslef …well at least i tihink u did…did u make the hose out of a cylinder or a “path” thing??cause if u didnt use a path then that mustave been hard…

[dmills]

Thank you scdelf for the reply! I still need some help with the lamps, I have no clue where to place them or what settings to put them on.

[dmills]

Wow, Blender Spartan, we posted at the same time, lol. That doesn’t happen very often! I made a circle, moved it away from its center, and used the thingy to make it rotate, kinda like a half torus. Then I adjusted the vertices in a slope, duplicated, rotated, and moved down a half step, removed verts, duplicated, rotated etc. How would I use a “path” thing?

[kbot]

Great work! It’s going to super when texture!