Lighting And Rendering

So Many Composites

Having a lot of trouble with my textures. For some reason I can’t make my displacement maps work, and I can’t change the bump depth on some objects. Really not happy with where the texturing is at currently, definitely consider it more as a base than the final textures. Need to take down saturation on many textures, and need some variety between the two leftmost apartment buildings. Also still need a dirt map on the ground, but I’m having trouble making it crisp. Lots of sharp edges, but can’t fix a lot of them because I’ve deleted history and can’t fix the bevels I have (I do have bevels but they’re way too small).

Also, obviously, render is noisy. Have yet to fix my render settings.

Still trying to figure out color and saturation levels. Some basic texturing in progress.

Another better shot possibility

Modeling and some lighting trials

Also did some color/lighting tests...

Made some changes to bottle positions, added lights behind the bottles to try to simulate colored reflections on the wall, edited the chair to make it less polygonal, made the shelf with the plant smaller, and brought down the wall dirt slightly on the bottom. Also made the top of the bar darker to try to differentiate the counter from the base, will try changing the direction of the grain today with new render probably.

Daytime - Want to do another texturing pass - bar texture should be different between the counter and the bottom boards, dirt is maybe too thick? Still need to finish a few of the bottles on the shelf. And everything is still a bit too oversaturated maybe? Unsure.

Nighttime 

Middle - Will probably try to use for nighttime