Mock up for tutorial
With the mr Ambient Occlusion light shader applied (just to see what it does).
and without it.
With the AO light shader applied the scene looks like it belongs in a computer game and is far less realistic. Although I can imagine that Ambient Occlusion is very useful for evening scenes.
Things I have down to do but are not yet done:
Write up my research on Balchelard.
Write up how it applies to my work by linking it to the current piece in progress.
Make a Cyclorama for the background.
Add dirt and more detail (several rounds of this).
Write up the list of occupancy signals and check that they are all applied to the scene.
Write up the lists of common building materials found in India.
Write up the analysis of my research images.
Write up the analysis of proximity of the different buildings in the images I have.
Use photoshop to place people into the scene in appropriate places to bring the scene to life and suggest occupancy in the strongest way possible.
Find an appropriate HDR image to get the very best out of the scene once complete.
Also I need to adjust my proposal hopefully to get more time to complete this as I think the end of September is pushing it now.
Building Materials In India
During a tutorial a while ago and more recently in my last presentation I was reminded that the most common building materials used in construction are the ones that are easily made and found locally. Which makes natural sense once you realise. I found myself choosing materials for the hotel that I am building and I was about to add some decking to the balcony floor and I stopped. Is decking found in India? Does India use wood in this way? Would it be found in a hotel? Would it be found in the locality of Banares/Varanasi? The brief answer is no! All the images that I have of the Varanasi and Calcutta show that concrete and stone are the most common forms of building materials in this region. To support this I found a book about the subject and this supports my assertion. The book also showed me the common materials used generally.
Common Building Materials Of India
Burn’t clay brick & tile
Stone
Building lime
Gypsum – Plaster & Plasterboard
Glass
Ceramics
Steel (Door and window frames / reinforcing brick concrete and stonework)
Aluminium (Bad for environment due to common waste products of red mud, fluoride emmissions and spent pot lining or SPL)
Cement
Concrete
Vegetable fibre composite boards
Wood and other lignocellulosic products including:
General purpose plywood
Marine plywood
Shutter plywood
Structural plywood
Particleboard & Fibreboard
Insulation board
Laminate Veneer
Bamboo mat board
Common Flooring Materials Of India
Concrete in the form of:
Portland cement concrete
High alumina cement concrete
Rubber latex cement concrete
Bitumen mastic
Polymer concrete
Decorative marble floor tiles
Granite floor tiles
Agglomerated marble
Gypsum marble
Cork tiles and sheet flooring
Vinyl tiles and sheet flooring
Gupta.T.N., 1998, “Building Materials In India: 50 years”, Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council, New Delhi, India.
Choosing appropriate materials
The centre and left partition walls show the concrete material the flat yellow of the remaining structure is the original stucco render that only shows its texture when the camera is close up, which is unlikely to be the view in the final renders. So the concrete texture is an improvement. I am going to need to scale up the texture a little to enable me to prevent patterning in the texture on each successive wall. This was clearly evident in the first project and I want to prevent it this time. This will help bring a more realistic feel out of the final renders which was absent in past.
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