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Medieval City Block Promo Iray Lighting

Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
in Technical Help (nuts n bolts)
Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong forum section bit I'm sort of stumped. Got the Medieval City Block which looks fantastic and as its optimised for Iray I'm going to make an assumption that the promo art was rendered in Iray. Sorry if I'm wrong there. I'm very new to Iray (been a die hard 3DL renderer forever) as all my experiences with Iray have resulted in things being too photo real. But the promos in this set look closer to 3DL and look fantastic. Does anyone have any tips or tutorials on how to use Iray yet get results like this? I'll be hugely grateful for any help. Thank you Jay
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  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,745

    Looks as if there are a lot of VDBs being used for atmospheric effects, or possibly older effects tricks like planes with opacity maps

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    Hi Richard. Thanks for the reply. Sorry I'm not sure what VDB's are. So if this may have been done with older methods do you think it was not Iray? Thanks again
  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,745

    VDBs are volumentric effects, like https://www.daz3d.com/sy-real-fog-iray-vdb

    Old methods doesn't mean not Iray, just that before we had true volumnes trhough VDBs (or where there are no suitable VDBs) it is possible to use a stack of planes or the like with a cloudy opacity images applied to fake the look of volume (there are alos prducts for that in the store, but it isn't too hard to roll your own).

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    Thank you Richard, really appreciate the comments. I'll keep chipping away with some test renders. Thanks again
  • faibolxfaibolx Posts: 71

    Jay Jay said:

    Hi Apologies if this is in the wrong forum section bit I'm sort of stumped. Got the Medieval City Block which looks fantastic and as its optimised for Iray I'm going to make an assumption that the promo art was rendered in Iray. Sorry if I'm wrong there. I'm very new to Iray (been a die hard 3DL renderer forever) as all my experiences with Iray have resulted in things being too photo real. But the promos in this set look closer to 3DL and look fantastic. Does anyone have any tips or tutorials on how to use Iray yet get results like this? I'll be hugely grateful for any help. Thank you Jay

    My guess and the easiest way to get the effect is in post, I mean with brushes in Photoshop

    On Daz Store some products can help https://www.daz3d.com/rons-steam-and-smoke and https://www.daz3d.com/rons-smoke

    Another technique is to follow this tutorial

    I hope this help you

  • Jay Jay_1264499Jay Jay_1264499 Posts: 298
    Hi Faibolx thank you for the reply. Thats real helpful thank you. The overall lighting though is my main headscratcher at the moment as to me it doesn't look like Iray if that makes sense? My iray tests have all looked too photoreal whereas the promo pics have that really nice 'animated' look if that makes sense. Thanks again
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