Open door wardrobe

I sometimes feel we are so critical of our own designs, like this is fantastic! what more could a client expect....like there is their room and an extremely clear visual of how it would look, now sign on the dotted line please madam! I've literally spend all week working on one kitchen project for a client (huge room and space) just trying to get it right. Time is money....how many hours did this take you please? ps. love the open door

Looks superb...

Adding in the details really make a render more interesting...

Nice work, with regards the lamp shade maybe Daz or Charles could give us a tip on how to better do this. 

Anyway this is how i do it.

Make your bulb, lens or whatever your using as the light and set to lit appearance with the diffuse to 0.15 - 0.26 

Now go to your shade and set to matt, go to advance and make transparency 0.66 and glossiness to 0.5 and tick allow light thru.

Best i can come up with!

Settings below.



Lit appearance:



Light shade: 

Joe wrote:Nice work, with regards the lamp shade maybe Daz or Charles could give us a tip on how to better do this. 

Anyway this is how i do it.

Make your bulb, lens or whatever your using as the light and set to lit appearance with the diffuse to 0.15 - 0.26 

Now go to your shade and set to matt, go to advance and make transparency 0.66 and glossiness to 0.5 and tick allow light thru.

Best i can come up with!

Impressive render Joe!... I have play so some extent with trying to create this affect in ArtiCAD. Just having Physical Luminance for lightbulbs can be very noisy especially if we use an ArtiCAD Sphere as there are to many facets really to create a clean light without having to have very high render settings an long render times.
Importing a faceted sphere will be better...
RedSDK has a Spherical Physical light for this very purpose which uses the engines own geometry to create cleaner light which I use in TC.
You could try the point light which we can setup for a more realistic look but altering the falloff to Inverse Square Law and raising the brightness 250-1000. Also changing the colour of them for cool white, warm white.... be intersting to see what you get Joe... ;-)

I honestly enjoy these little tips and tricks that everyone shares so much! So simple but effective Joe!

Jaynehiddleston wrote:I sometimes feel we are so critical of our own designs, like this is fantastic! what more could a client expect....like there is their room and an extremely clear visual of how it would look, now sign on the dotted line please madam! I've literally spend all week working on one kitchen project for a client (huge room and space) just trying to get it right. Time is money....how many hours did this take you please? ps. love the open door

Perhaps they should call it ArtiCRACK Jane. That's what I love about this forum, people of all levels striving to get better at what they do and the generosity of all, sharing tips and tweaks. The customers have not one clue as to the effort that goes into their designs but then again, if it looks effortless....mission accomplished!

Thanks for the lighting ideas people, I shall give that a go.

Mingerz wrote:

Jaynehiddleston wrote:I sometimes feel we are so critical of our own designs, like this is fantastic! what more could a client expect....like there is their room and an extremely clear visual of how it would look, now sign on the dotted line please madam! I've literally spend all week working on one kitchen project for a client (huge room and space) just trying to get it right. Time is money....how many hours did this take you please? ps. love the open door

Perhaps they should call it ArtiCRACK Jane. That's what I love about this forum, people of all levels striving to get better at what they do and the generosity of all, sharing tips and tweaks. The customers have not one clue as to the effort that goes into their designs but then again, if it looks effortless....mission accomplished!

I often use this for my advantage as if I hint at the amount of work involved. Often the customers reaction is a good key as to whether they are serious and appreciate the work going into it. 

We can show a customer brochures, displays and samples but nothing is as good as creating accurate visuals of the customers actual room with details. First impressions last with customers when they see the first set of renders... VR and all the trying to create changes with the customers does not work for me....