Maxwell for AC9

[Anonymous]

work in progress....rendertime 4 hrs
Rendered in maxwell studio (rc5)
Comments welcome, & share your maxwell images/tips
Anybody else having some success with maxwell inside
A/C9 interface via plugin?

[Anonymous]

Great mimicking of Mother Nature! Congratulations!

Is the sun flare a photoshop filter or Maxwell? Skip it if you could!

All the white surfaces look the same. This is impossible ir the real world:
- White wall must be matte, with rough structure like stucco.
- White siding, supposedly painted, should be shiny and a little reflective. You've got the bump well done.
- White painted metal parts at the roof should be more shiny.
_ I would make the wall at the front with different stucco than the house.

Railing should be darker if painted. If stainless steel, it should shine!

[TomWaltz]

My first thoughts are the same as kilment's, that the white surfaces are all too uniform in color and texture and that the sun flare is not a good thing.

I also think the bric shader has a little too much color range, making the darker brick really stick out.

[Anonymous]

thanks Tomwalts & Kliment for your comments

very good material suggestions, that i will try to implement. Need to play
around with maxwell material settings more....

will re-post after more experimenting

[TomWaltz]

I noticed a pattern in the brick. Is that intentional?

If not, does Maxwell offer procedural shaders? (shaders that do not repeat and offer much more realistic masonry work). They would offer a much better look

[Anonymous]

To be honest, I don't like procedural brick shaders. They are good for standard renders, but will look too artificial in such a high quallity render.

[Anonymous]

Tomwaltz,

No, the texture pattern isn't deliberate, it's a flaw .
I need to use a larger non repeating map or touch-up in p/shop.

i'm very new to maxwell, but what it does have is a library of standard materials ie. metals, plastics, glass etc which can have texture maps & roughness settings & bump maps attached.
You also have the ability to add multiple coats of materials to one surface with varying thicknesses.
As u can see, can get quite complex i think!
(maybe too complex for quick efficient arch viz.)
(see screenshot of material browser)

Peter

[TomWaltz]

kliment wrote:
To be honest, I don't like procedural brick shaders. They are good for standard renders, but will look too artificial in such a high quallity render.

Really? Which programs have you used them in? I usually find they look dramatically more real than any bitmap-based texture.

[Anonymous]

The program is Max.

Perhaps it's a matter of playing with the controls. But I'll stick to the large nice bitmaps which are great for small areas of bricks like you have in a house.

It's a differen matter if you design something like Louis Kahn's!

[giza]

did you export this model directly from AC to Maxwell via plugin or with .3ds file format?

nice render but i agree with others remove the flare as it gives artificial look, its like the sun is so bright and the shadows are lost - fake,

from what i see from this render you didn't use physical sky nor sunlight, did you use the sky dome?