Exterior - Take a look

[Anonymous]

Okay, i need help with this one, the model is cool, but the lighting and lack of landscaping....

1. How do I get the sky to reflect on my windows

2. I want a more realistic exterior sun look

3. My grass absloutely sucks... yuck, I just don't know how to improve it

4. Where can I get some nice model trees and people, I don't like to put in real pictures of people and trees in a computer generated model, it always looks to forced. (I want to generate the entire output rendering from Archicad, no photoshop - well minimum photoshop)

5. The roof is actually suppose to be a Bermuda Roof, but I'm not sure how to do it, maybe a flat texture.

Well any comments would be greatly appreciated. Oh yeah, I know that my X5 is kinda floating.... lol

This is light years beyond what I use to be able to create in ArchiCad, so again, hats off to the GS crew for incorporating Lightworks...

Thank and I look forward to your comments and suggestions.

[Anonymous]

I'm not in a position to help much with the overall view, but with respect to people and the ArchiCAD/Photoshop issue:

I know what you mean about photographic people pasted in photoshop. Doesn't look right somehow. Too much detail is usually the problem.

But I don't think I've ever seen a satisfactory modeled person. To much like a plopping a Barbie or Ken doll into the middle of the scene. Horrible body language.

Try pasting a photographic image in Photoshop (you have to acknowledge that you will do SOME finishing in Pshop), but then abstracting by pushing to all white, then dropping opacity to around 35%. The result contributes authority (actual human profile, not an akward model), with the right amount of abstraction.

See my sample image (rendered in Atlantis, finished in photoshop).

[Dwight]

1: sky: lose that sh*tty archicad background and get a nice graduated background - render sky with Lightworks not internal.
1A: reflections - go to lwa and get a higher reflective glass. or tune it up yourself.
2: exterior sun - combine weak built-in lightworks sun with .5 degree divergent sun object. yellow-ish more ambient and sky - bluish - every scene is different.

3: grass: keep working with pattern overlays on a darker, greyer green
4: I use Poser and OnyxTreepro, and the photo figures, too, but with blurring and reduction of contrast to match the ArchiCAD model - espcially attentive to sun angle.
5: If you mean overlapping planks like those white hip roofed houses along the road, it is overlapping roof planks. How hard can that be?
6: Want to see a citroen float - like a butterfly - and sting like a bee? go to:

http://www.theembassyvfx.com/main.html

portfolio - second from left - citroen ad. 6.0 mg clip - worth the wait.

7: there is no seven.