~progress?

continuing with the revamped phone, I've gotten further with this one than the previous one although there are some issues with rounding that I don't want. I have watched a video of someone
modeling a phone where they controlled the 'tightness' of the edges with additional edges. This is what I have been trying to do. BUT; they where working in MAX and this is softimage.


I think that in softimage, it is preferable to use hard
edges with "mark hard edges", but I want to
export this to various formats for turbosquid...
so I am trying to make the model as simple and portable as possible.

cell phone --current

more work on my current cell phone, getting better

This took me about today to build...
I struggled with the holes and hard edged deformations. This is at Geometry Approximation; render level 2, no automatic discontinuity*. I read in the manual that it is more efficient. Not sure why but, to me, it seems obvious that if its always smooth it will be better.

some stuff -- getting more prof. look

some work on the cell phone using new ideas/techiniques.
added name bitmap to the improved phone. The improvements have yet to be finalized by welding together so there is a clear seam. Altogether though I feel better about this process.

more pictures (building) improvement

The image above is the result of a couple of days of fiddling with the settings on the scene, right now I am rendering a new one with some changes.

:: above image, some of the settings I adjusted are; the power of the physical sky multiplier which, due to the kobayashi pluggin, is connected via an expression to the multiplier of the physical sun. I am using the architectural shaders for almost all of the surfaces in the scene; I adjusted the ray multiplier of the concrete which is on the ceiling and the floor, as well as much adjustment on the windows: the reflectivity, the reflectivity color, the cutout opacity but so far have avoided using my own settings for BDRF. I have repeatedly adjusted the spots to get them where I want them, they should be very week in comparison to the sun I think. All and all this experience is crying for more reading on the subject.::

• The biggest hurdle seems to be to get the windows on the left to look like the windows on the right. They are at different angles so the reflectivity is different. It looks to me like the windows on the right aren't even there.
  
• The color of the exterior environment is off, it should be blue sky and brown ground.... not sure what to do there, because the sky/sun is set very low.
• The "cans" in the ceiling are not lit by the spot which sit inside them

The image to the left is the most recent render, the cans are slightly brighter and the spots are more diffuse.

Progress

more work

MOre Abuse

Some images of the abuse I have perpetrated;

:: its a actually working






:: something of a diagram to describe the workflow










below:
current render

alternate project

I'm trying my hand at arch-viz.

nice room I saw, here's a try at modeling it.

this is after about a month of work here and there.

... some things to mention are: its very difficult to place and create the moldings because of the angles in this model, the lighting shown is without any lighting enhancements although it took a good 5 minutes to render.

I am pleased with the progress on the moldings so far, and the room is beginning to look complete.