Simplistic bathroom scene

[joepal]

EDIT: More functional image links.

This is just a little something I did to test hair textures in cycles (more on that below)



Here I've used the light asian skin by NOA http://www.makehuman.org/node/468, and a sink model I found at blend swap http://www.blendswap.com/blends/furniture/sink/

The hair is the long hair including texture shipping with MH, although I had to twiddle around a bit with it to make it fit into cycles.

I'm not entirely happy with the hair, cause it looks strange towards the bottom of the back. In many cycles renders, it seems as if you get an outline of the underlying mesh. Maybe the left and right strands should be erased to make it look better.

I think this part of the hair looks strange:



With only the hair and no complex background, it's not so visible:

[duststorm]

I think the problem is that each layer of hair is semi transparent to simulate the effect that you see through some parts of each hair layer to see the next one under it.
In real life hair is fully opaque, but there are lots of (fully transparent) openings next to it.

At least the hair at the edges (of which often only one layer is stacked) should be fully opaque, maybe with more fully transparent openings in it.

[gmr]

Are you sure it's not a bug of the rendering engine in blender?

As far as I know at least in the blender internal renderer (the non-cycles one), transparent objects mess up with halo particles behind them, z-buffer messes up with halo particles in front of it (as well as generating other unwanted artifacts under certain circumstances) and in cycles it is likely the hair polygon is being shaded by the surroundings independently of the texture. - I am just guessing but this doesn't seem to me like a problem of the textures used.

[Brandy Farfan]

Wow! At first glance, I thought it was some part of her body or hair , casting a shadow on the Bathroom wall.
It's probably a Cycles glitch. Sometimes it leaves strange artifacts, when rendering certain objects. I read alot of complaints on that, on the Blender nation forums, a couple of months back.
But then again, Hmmm.................

[N.O.A.]

thanks for using the texture I made! ... but I think I'll update it with a better one...

...I think the hair is like that because of the texture is made to be a little bit transparent, so that it will simulate the look of real hair

[cochedelaferte]

Hi Joel,


I'm very interested by this scene, and since some time i intend to make something in this kind, including of course a Makehuman figure. But that i know how, and my question isn't directly Makehuman related. It's about the white ceramics, what is the best way to model its :

- each by each, i mean an only one model, and, after that, duplication ?

- or another way, like an unique surface for all ceramics and an appropriate shader which make itself the separation between each ceramic ?


Cheers,

Sergio

[joepal]

The blender procedure for making the ceramics is pretty simple.

1. Model one square with bevel etc
2. Add the array modifier along X. This replicates the tile along a row in a selectable number of copies.
3. Add the array modifier again, but along Z or Y depending on your rotation. You now have a wall.

[cochedelaferte]

Hi Joel,


Thank's really for this fast, enlighted and also documented answer ! Now i can begin immediately.


Greatings,

Sergio