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Posted by Bartosz at Feb 12, 2019, 10:52:12 PM

Minimalist 2-bed flat
Hi all
This is my first post so hello to everyone especially to SH3D Team! I'd like to share the examples of the designs I made for my own flat.
It is a 2-bedroom flat loaced at the 1st floor, all windows are facing South. The living room contains something that is called "a kitchen annex". Well - this is a standard of construction in my country these days. I call it "a big kitchen with a sofa and TV".

The "big kitchen"

The pendant lamps are to be re-done, sorry, got no patience

And the night shots

Couldn't make decision, so I chose flexibility: cabinet on wheels gives you freedom of arrangement at any time.
You guys noticed that we all have the same books on the shelf?
Yup, I know some objects just "know" what elevation to sit at, some don't. I haven't figured it out yet how they work as I'm noob though

Here is a hall or foyer whateva with low winter sun

Bedroom also with the sun at about the noon quite close to a winter solstice

And bathroom as well. It's pretty tight, much tighter than it appears on vertical shots

Hope you enjoy
Bart

[Note from moderator: fixed links to image, next time be sure to post a "Direct link" for each image, found in Mediafire "More sharing options" pane]

Posted by rontant at Feb 14, 2019, 8:19:53 AM

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Very tastefully designed and rendered indeed. My only question is about the wooden flooring for the bathroom. Do you think the wooden floor last would last considering the frequent exposure to water and humidity next to the shower tray?

Posted by VeroniQ at Feb 14, 2019, 9:02:03 AM

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So realistic! Well done!

Posted by UbuntuBirdy at Feb 14, 2019, 9:58:28 AM

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Really nice renderings!

@ rontant - do you know there are tiles in wood look available, which are hardly recognizable as tiles?
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Posted by Bartosz at Feb 14, 2019, 2:51:19 PM

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Yes,they're indeed wood-like ceramic tiles. I was even lucky enough to find the seamless texture of the actual product of my choice

Posted by bdfd at Feb 14, 2019, 7:18:34 PM

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Hi,
I'm surprized that light and shadows don't appear in the main room by the big windowâ€¦

I'm not sure than sh3d produced these rendering aloneâ€¦

However, the creativity is evidencely present.

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Posted by rontant at Feb 15, 2019, 3:24:13 PM

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Wood-like ceramic tiles? Wow... cool stuffs. I didn't know they exist. Nice... indeed.

Posted by rontant at Feb 15, 2019, 3:29:46 PM

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Where is the refrigerator?

Posted by UbuntuBirdy at Feb 15, 2019, 4:37:49 PM

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@rontant - During last november and december I helped out a good friend, a carpenter. We had to produce and mount some doors on a new building and as we steped in I said to my friend "we have to be carefully with the wooden floor". He smiled and responded "yes we do, but not about the wooden floor, about the tiles".
I had to kneel down and feel the tiles to believe it, they looked that way like real wood...
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Posted by bdfd at Feb 15, 2019, 5:04:13 PM

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Where is the refrigerator?

I think that it's on the third picture at left. wink

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Posted by Mike53 at Feb 16, 2019, 12:27:26 AM

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Very nice project and renders, how closely does it resemble your own apartment?

Mike

Posted by Bartosz at Feb 16, 2019, 12:07:01 PM

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@All Thank you for your interest and comments. I owe you some answers.

@rontant The fridge is built in the tall cabinet on the left hand side. And I'm pretty sure you walked on such tiles many times without even realizing it wasn't wood. They're commonly used in shops, restaurants and other public buildings:)

@bdfd I take your skepticism as compliment. You can't see highlights and sharp shadows as in the discussed case the sun light doesn't even reach the window still - it's due to the balcony ceiling and very high position of the sun in the sky. I place numerous sources of light of low intensity to create a kind of soft ambient, diffused light. It's like mimicking light ray bounced 5 times as it would be done with use of GI:Path. I don't use that as it takes about a week or so for my computer to render such quality picture with use of Path tracing :) So instead I put more lights to get kinda similar result at the first glance, but rendering time with GI:default usually do not exceed 45-50 minutes on resolution 1600x1000. the picture says more than 1000 words, so please check this out, hope this will dispel your doubts.
The strongest light source is dayligt panel set for 13% placed outside the window. It does make objects to cast fuzzy shadows which then are like cancelled out by numerous other light sources of low intensity.

Balcony

Here you can see all the light sources involved in the scene, examples with and without. And yes - done with SH3D alone

To take a shot with the sunlight in the room it requires the fake scenery to be removed as it cast shadow and blocks the sunlight unless the sun is way up in the sky

@Mike53 - judge for yourself. Photo taken this morning. Still a lot of work to do, my carpenter keeps deceiving me :)

Bart

Posted by bdfd at Feb 16, 2019, 12:33:49 PM

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Hi Bart,

Your techincal return is welcome and will help another users.

The two last pictures are amazing, bravo ! applause

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Posted by Xiste at Feb 16, 2019, 6:56:55 PM

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These extremely nice renderings are among the best I have seen on this forum!

I'm not sure than sh3d produced these rendering aloneâ€¦

You'd be surprised what this program is able to produce in the hands of a qualified user.

Xiste

Posted by enkonyito at Feb 17, 2019, 9:01:03 PM

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@Bartosz
Beautiful natural rendering!
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Posted by ndorigatti at Feb 18, 2019, 8:16:53 AM

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Those are wonderful! I can't understand if the last one is a render or a real picture... A-MA-ZING!

Posted by bdfd at Feb 18, 2019, 10:21:35 AM

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Those are wonderful! I can't understand if the last one is a render or a real picture... A-MA-ZING!

@ndorigatti,

He said himself, it's a PHOTO ! laughing

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Posted by ndorigatti at Feb 18, 2019, 1:09:58 PM

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Those are wonderful! I can't understand if the last one is a render or a real picture... A-MA-ZING!

@ndorigatti,

He said himself, it's a PHOTO ! laughing

Yes, I got it, but a couple of rendering posted above are really close to the photo, so it's difficult to get you if don't read and just look at the pictures!!!

Posted by rontant at Feb 20, 2019, 12:00:10 AM

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@rontant The fridge is built in the tall cabinet on the left hand side.

Bart

Putting the fridge inside the cabinet looks neat but please pardon my ignorance... does it mean you have to open the cabinet door and then the fridge door everytime you want to put or retrieve items into/from the fridge? I mentioned this idea once to a fridge salesman but was frowned upon. He said putting a fridge in a cabinet without adequate air ventilation will cause too much heat built-up.

Again, the renderings are superb. You mentioned they took one week to render. May I know the specs of your computer?

Posted by hansmex at Feb 20, 2019, 9:13:22 AM

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This is how it's done in most of Europe:
built-in fridge
built-in dishwasher
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Posted by rontant at Feb 20, 2019, 12:08:52 PM

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Thanks Hansmex. Very interesting. I guess this is not an option for us who live in tropical countries where the average ambient room temperature is around 30C.

Posted by Bartosz at Feb 22, 2019, 10:04:03 PM

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@All - thank you, I'm pleased.

@rontant - Obviously it's not just any fridge put in any cabinet. Both the fridge and the cabinet are sold as one specially designed system. The fridge's door is attached to cabinet's door so they open as one piece. And the cabinet itself is designed to dissipate heat. If you take closer look - there is a vent grill at the bottom of the cabinet. It sucks in the air, the cabinet has no back side and all the shelves have cutouts to enable gravitational airflow. The top of the cabinet doesn't reach to the very ceiling, there is a gap for a reason - there's the way for heated air to come out from the system. Maybe the energy consuption would be a bit higher but this system should work even at 30C.

I never said that it takes a week to render one picture, on my usual settings it takes 45-50 minutes.
In the following case I wanted to recreate the photo I posted above, so i used GI:Path with just 1 bounce. It took 9 hours and 30 minutes to render - that's what I ment by saying "a week or so".

My computer specs? - Don't even ask :) For the last 8 years I've felt like it never gets old, it was good enough to browse Internet and play tanks, but since I've started rendering pictures I realized it really needs an upgrade, maybe for something like UbuntuBirdy announces :) Definitely Ryzen and insane amount of RAM... Display card doesn't matter here - it's a pity as mine is quite powerful even as for todays's standards

@EnkoNyito - thank you, I believe it's your light sources that made it possible, the're really game changer

And finally a picture - it looks that using GI:Path changes a bit the colour of the kitchen cabinets fronts to darker. Probably because they consist of two layers of material - external gloss coat made of "glass" and internal being an actual color. I made them in Blender this way to get rid of that horrible glittering reflections caused by silk shininess shader. And yes - I tweaked badly the brightness and light temperature :/

Posted by AdeleAlli at Feb 27, 2019, 7:28:52 PM

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Hi @Bartosz,
I really love this project, I would like to tell that the renderings are very realistic, me too want to be able to create such ones, but even if I try hard there is always something that goes wrong.

Cheers,
Adele

Posted by Bartosz at May 5, 2019, 8:22:47 PM

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Testing new renderer V1.7 which I installed last night. At the first glance I noticed much less noise in the light/shade transitions and less glittering reflections on glossy surfaces. Hell yes. I like it. I'm dee-LIGHT-ed!

Settings as usual, all the same:
GI: default
AA: 2/3
SS: silk
SA: bucket
Filter: Mitchell

DOF used occasionally

Posted by Mike53 at May 6, 2019, 9:48:23 PM

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Like the way you have used the viewer angles and height to show these images, i happen to think the first group of images were better, these appear to be slightly fuzzy, tho that may be my old eyes.

Posted by VeroniQ at May 6, 2019, 10:24:59 PM

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... and slightly sexist angry

Posted by bdfd at May 23, 2019, 5:39:52 PM

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Interesting renderingsâ€¦

smile

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Posted by xmsea_1 at Jun 4, 2019, 7:30:08 AM

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good job!!!!

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