Regarding rendering within Maya... I've looked at tutorials, books and more books. I know that I need to tweak a few settings within the render settings but there are some things that I really don't have a clue about what they do.
This section can be a long process (if you don't know what your doing like me) but I will figure it out. I've had some good self learning sessions over the pass few weeks and I can say that I'm getting there in terms of what I want to do. The Viking Village section within Maya is 98% complete... all that's left is to set up some nice renders which will be one of the main parts of my work.
Playing around with Rendering...
I've done a few test renders to see what I can do and what I need to change.
For some reason it came out looking like this... With a Snowy effect... I think this looks cool... Even though this wasn't the "look" I intended it to be.
These looked ok but I its not right... so back to the drawing board...
Next Test Render...
This image below was my next test render using Mental-Ray and this shader was linked to a Enviroment Sky...
I also added the clouds to this scene but it still needs tweaking as you can see.. the clouds can be seen on the ground... if this area was water, then it would have worked out fine.. I really like the look of this though... I'll play around some more till I get it right! I'm gonna go with this setting I think.
I might even add some fire tourches to this... to give it that night feel... when fighting within the fight area. In fact... I'll run with that idea.
Hi Kevin. Sorry for not commenting sooner I am soaking the sun up here in the Dominican REpublic. but its coming along GREAT. Really looking nice now.
ReplyDeleteRemember to try and break that uniformity up a little bit with the fences, I would imagine back then they would probably wouldnt have been so damn straight. Break it up a bit with a little more wonky fence, not so straight.
Great work buddy.