Firstly, i noticed in my room build that there were some issues with the walls, as this was made to look like a log style cabin, the logs are meant to be lined up and roughly the same size, though one of the walls was not the same. I used the viewer tools to disable the grid in the viewer, then went into the UV Editor and lined it up by moving it and scaling around more.
I went about making some tweaking to the lighting of my scene, as i needed to start making a couple changes as the scene seemed much to bright. I used the lofting techniques similar to the revolve technique used for the glass. i used the CV Curve tool to build a short wavy spline to look like a curtain, then used duplicated this twice and pulled them down to use for the loft.
After this i used the Loft function on the splines and set it to use control points and output polygons.
After this i applied a brown fabric style texture and started and added a low amount of transmission allowing light to pass through similar to glass. I went about tweaking the curtain’s control points as it was looking really blocky originally, this was due to some of the control points overlapping so i went about going through these points and separating them. I also used the soft selection tool to move some of the control points around and make the curtain look a bit more organic and like a fabric.
After this i put a side by side of the spline before and after i had fixed the blockiness and made it look a bit more organic,
Unfortunately i noticed that the top of the curtain was clipping into the top of the windowsill fairly hard, so i went about adjusting those control points to make it just overlay on top of the windowsill. I also saw that there were some holes in the above board mesh and that there was a lot of messy and really sharp geometry, so i used the smooth sculpting tool to fix it up a little bit.
At this point i really was hating the colour and design of this fabric, so i went about changing it to a more grey fabric texture, and adjusting both the transmission and the specularity, as a semi see through cloth shouldn’t have almost any reflectivity.
I liked these curtains a lot more, though i felt like a snowy log cabin might be better for the outside HDR Box, and may change the overall feel of the lighting.
I Experimented for a while with the lighting, however i realized using an HDR Of a snowy background wouldn’t have a whole lot of lighting difference and would be a lot more blue in terms of lighting and decided to stick with the original, though i tweaked the Lamp’s colour tempurature and the exposure levels of the HDR lighting.
I Then decided to add in some other things i’d built, such as a plate and the chairs i had built in week 2, i tweaked the bump mapping and textures on both and also added in the cheese i had built, then scaled everything properly and edited them in scene.
After this i tweaked the lighting for a couple hours as i was really finicky with it, experimenting with exposure and intensity, and eventually settled on this. Overall i’m happy with the end result.
Next i’d like to add more of the models i’ve previously worked on into the scene.