photorealistic interior room

[daphnev]

Hi ElBribon,

I am not a lighting expert but I think you need to figure out where the light is coming from. If there is no sunlight where is the light? Are they ceiling lights? where are they placed? That helps me get a visual of how I will set everything up.
I am not sure if this will work but I would probably put a vray light coming in from the other side as well (the opposite side of the bath). I am not sure if I would place a vray light directly above the toilet facing down.
Have you tried HDRI lighting. It produces really nice reflections. You just have to download an HDRI image, there are some free ones on the net and then tweak if needed in photoshop. Then if you need more lighting you can add lights....

[mister3d]

I would set color temperatures to cold for outside and warm for inside, it could better define lights.

[ElBribon]

actually i was gonna create a room without a window but now I think it'd be better to have 1..there is some footage I've done lately...I've been sitting for 2 weeks on this now and i feel like i've been makin" any progress at all...I've tried different light settings..off the ceiling, the wall but nothing actually approaches photorealistic..i used also warm color settings for interior (check footage)

http://rapidshare.com/files/36642494/footage.zip.html (http://rapidshare.com/files/36642494/footage.zip.html)

i also uploaded my entire project..may help ya?! I mean I read tuts, books and i know how light works actually but i'm still a beginner when it becomes about photorealistic lighting.

http://rapidshare.com/files/36646516/bath.zip.html (http://rapidshare.com/files/36646516/bath.zip.html)
about 17MB

[mister3d]

I can't assign your textures. Use resource collector in the utilities section.

If you want to achieve realistic results, first of all get a lot of reference images so you could compare similar conditions of lighting and materials along the way. This should be the first step when you start IMHO.
Let's not panic :) and divide all into smaller tasks.
Geometry. Still not enough bevels. Bevels should be everywhere to catch highlights, or you can place them manually (set light to specular only and use a place highlight tool from the align group). Your door looks a bit flat if to compare with your basin, which looks quite well - it catches reflections and highlights well. So first of all bevel all your crisp corners on the shelves, on the tiles on the floor etc. Make the tiles and everything to catch highlights. Though geometry of your handle on the door looks good, it's not catches highlight so we can't see it well. Place a highlight then to benefit. So bevel it all, or bevel it better.
Texturing. Provide bump and specular maps. You can make the door and this wooden wall with bump and increase glossy reflections, because there surfaces are often varnished. You can make textures and bump maps for all the sufraces. Your pan seems not reflecting much, and your dryer as well, and many other things could be more reflective and have highlights. Look at your basin - awesome! Because of reflections.
Rendering. You have some noise and (I think) problems with your irradiance map, your settings are too low for it.

Then, if to look at composition, you have a big empty wall, where you can put 2 modern torches with nice throw patterns from web distribution files.

[ElBribon]

there are some problems with towel's texture ..refresh and assign once again the texture for towels ->

http://rapidshare.com/files/36891644/materials.zip.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/37691488/bath.zip.html

I looked at various footages of bathrooms....you mentioned bevel..i agree...think i have to bevel and chamfer more..
the sink is the only 1 that looks great because i use HDRI here...
my render settings are low because to achieve faster renderings...it's only for testing..it's already been taken more than 10 min. rendering this scene.

what about my proportions?

the link above (latest materials and project) in case you haven't d/l the previous 1.

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