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#21 Mark Beard

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Posted 21 February 2018 - 09:53 PM

Hey guys,

 

Jumping in on late this thread!  Nice work to all in the previous examples.  I haven't gotten into the landscaping much yet but have been slowly dialing in on my own rendering "style" that I prefer to use (see attached).

 

My question is, do you guys know anyway way to avoid the horizontal lines between the floor plans of the assembled model?  I have tweaked the anti-alias settings (higher) but I'm trying to maintain a sharp and strong outline around the model.  I guess I could play around with "fit to roof" from the first floor up to the gables, but that seems like a major work around. My end goal is to have my model as "tight" as possible for rendering and of course then be able to create my 2D drafting & linework w/ minimal, manual edits and cleanup.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

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#22 D M

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Posted 06 March 2018 - 01:16 PM

Some fairly good results can be achieved in Texture Mode without the time consumed trying Rendered Mode, ..

 

I usually just stay with Textured


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#23 Matt Orner

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Posted 06 March 2018 - 06:31 PM

I've tinkered around until I found the right sun setting that I liked. I go with April 15 at 2 PM. After that I do the same thing with the billboard trees that Martin suggested and it works good. I'll also throw in a few regular trees but they take so long to render. But the shadows look nice. I found some landscaping plants on sketchup and use them for all my renderings. I also am trying to step it up. I've seen some that look so crisp but I wonder if they are using lumion. 

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Posted 06 March 2018 - 06:32 PM

Also, another thing I do is use golf course backgrounds. There are a few I've found online that have green grass and trees so that eliminates the render time as well. 



#25 Stacey Gaylord

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Posted 09 March 2018 - 05:05 PM

I would like to thank everyone for their input and guidance, I applied some of the information that you provided and gave it another try.  Let me know what you think. 

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Posted 28 March 2018 - 04:02 PM

Interior in Texture Mode


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Posted 29 March 2018 - 07:24 AM

Martin-did you find the background trees on any particular site or just searched around until you found something you liked?

I just saw this question. I found that one on Google using "treed background" as the search query. I cropped them to make a couple of different tree/grass tansitions.

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