Rendering, it's more than a five min process

[Scarecrow]

Hi guru's
I'm playing around with some of the advanced settings in photoworks 3, and my part is starting to look pretty darn cool. However......I find that the part on my screen is far lighter in shade than my rendered part. It takes about 5 min to render each time after I make a change, i could spend days doing this (not by choice either).
Also the printed version is different in shade and colour.

Is this a normal process? Any tips or links would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Gerry

http://www.scatmat.com

 

[NickE]

Same here, last week in fact I designed two assemblies, (cant tell ya what for, I'd have to kill ya) that may never see production. The PW renders are in our advert. in machine design thou. Photoworks is ok I prefer the power and speed of Pov-Ray thou, just haven't got a good way to generate good scenefiles in Pov-Ray direct from SW, Tesselated shapes are not good objects to render. Pov-Ray likes equations....

x^2/a^2 + y^2/b^2 + z^2/c^ = 0

nick

 

[MadMango]

We don't deal with renderings, and that means I don't get to play with PW (too bad for me). But we do built proof of concept prototypes after we have the CAD model finished. I am always surprised at the sales folk that see the prototype working then go out a sell the heck of the product before we've even had the chance to optimize the design. Thier belief is the same, "I saw it built, so we must be able to sell it."

Usually a few weeks after the prototype is shown in-house, we'll have orders placed for customers. I guess people think you can go directly from design to selling, and by-pass that small hinderance of "production".

Ray Reynolds
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[Theophilus]

What isn't understood becomes magic.




Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

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[MadMango]

Is that where I heard the following line from (I forget the name of the movie), "Technology, it's almost as good as magic."

Ray Reynolds
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[JNR]

Wow, you guys get to have all kinds of fun. We rarely use PW. Only very occasionally do we make a rendering if it is for an important proposal or a marketing publication, etc. Mostly they use photos. We rarely get all the consol and panel details, plus seat, contol column, etc in enough detail to make them look realistic. It is usually just aircraft structure details and windows, glareshield, etc.

Be naughty - save Santa a trip.

 

[Theophilus]

Reality exists almost completely in the details as far as renderings go. Add a few minor things, like mundane objects for scale or scenery and you're on the right track. Decals make a huge difference.

I'm planning to model and render my coffee mug soon--boring, right? Simple model. However, this is a real mug with my coffee in it and evaporation lines, drips, and all the other slobby things about a well-used mug. The idea is to build a photorealistic rendering and tutorial for how to create the effects in PhotoWorks. It will probably take about three hours to do everything, including the creation of the decals and coffee lines--from scratch--and I hope the results will be great.

Now I just need to find an extra three hours somewhere. I'll post the rendering on my site when I finally get it done--with a basic tutorial oriented toward adding detail when time allows for that as well. PhotoWorks is a powerful tool when used creatively.




Jeff Mowry
Industrial Designhaus, LLC

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[Scarecrow]

I ordered "Digital Lighting and Rendering"by Jeremy Birn (ISBN 1-56205-954-8).
It's easy to follow for newbies like me, and after only a few pages into the book my renderings are looking much better.

Gerry Bolda