Ok poeple I made this I am only a newbie with around 2 weeks experiance I wanted this to give people a Nice feeling like the sort of feeling of when you see the sunset or when you look up at the stars on a clear night the girls will know what i am talking about I am a 15 yeah old guy so i really have know idea on what it needs here you go
by the way it was made in maya If anyone has any technical info or tip on what it need they would be very appreciated to
thanks all 
The sea is really stormy, i donāt think that fits the mood of looking up to the stars you want to achieve 
There are some technical problems and lack of detail, the composition is not so interesting and the design of the houses is a bit too simple in some places.
It seems to me youāre going for a āmoodā picture, which means the light and composition will be very important.
My suggestion is to focus on just a few houses, make the light resemble a sunset and add more detail to the houses and give them some nice attributes, for example maybe the trees have flowers and you see petals glistening in the sunset.
Hope this helps, i usually donāt make environments only characters ^0^
OK here is an update on what I have got so far I am still working on it in terms of working out what else it need here it is
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The light is better, but the composition is still lacking, all the houses look the same and are about the same size, which makes it quite boring from a composition point of view. Iād play around with the camera a bit and see if you can come up with a more interesting angle
Hi!
itās going better, but i would show more sky and less sea - ground, maybe around a proportion of 3/4 or soā¦ i think that could make it look more peaceful,
oh, and that big āflashāā¦ mmmā¦ staring at the sun is not like a nice feeling to meā¦ maybe there is too much rays-lens flare-whatever, but the lighting is better than in the first pic, has more moodā¦
good luck!
Dummy down the lens flare first offā¦ its good but i think it takes away. Next you should add maybe a boat or 2 tied to the docks. Then you should put some stuff on the docks themselves. Maybe some crates or barrels. If you gonna do a night or evening shot lets put up some torches and see some fire and lighting.
Just my 2 cents
Hey thanks I am workin on it right now should have another update later on today I will try all the stuff you guys have said thanks everyone for your comments they help a lot
See now that looks MUCH better. I like the sun in the back like that how its going down. Maybe move the sun to the right or left a bitā¦just to keep it interesting hahaha. Also the crate farthest to the left needs to be put on the dock better, it looks as if I can see right under it. And not to sound like a jerk but maybe fix the textures on the hutsā¦ give them more of a grassy look.
Keep up the good work!
I must admit that I didnāt like the direction the second image was taking. It just seemed too bland with blue skies, blue water, and white lighting. The latest image is a definite improvement, but mr.wheels could push the imagery fartherā¦
Models
I actually like the simplicity of the models. Thereās a certain quaint quality about it that reminds me of dioramas and stop-motion animation sets. There are a few discrepancies that seem confusing to me such as the inconsistant scale between certain objects (Iām comparing the boats and the doorways of the huts, and the boats look too big for the imaginary inhabitants), but I can overlook those problems for now.
Composition
The fewer huts makes a difference for the better in the latest image, but the arrangement is still bland because it looks so mechanical. If you looked at the picture from the other side of the room, you can see that the upper half of the picture is more interesting because thereās plenty of variation even though the rooftops are similar. However, the lower half of the picture is a different story. The most striking element in the lower half is the boardwalk between the buildings, and it looks very straight and flat. The straightness is not a problem by itself, but the boardwalk looks parallel to the horizon, and thatās boring composition. How can this be fixed? Probably by angling one of the boardwalk toward the camera (Move the end of one boardwalk that is off-screen closer to the camera).
The huts on the both ends suffer from lining up with the horizon, but the leftmost hut is the most noticeable offender because of the strong contrast between the white glare bouncing off the water lining up with the bottom of that hut. The rightmost hut can be left alone, but the leftmost one should be adjusted higher or lower so that itās no longer even with the horizon.
I like the addition of grass (although the jury is still out on whether it makes sense or not) because it looks visually interesting, but the patch of grass in the lower right corner lines up vertically with the edge of the picture, so itās distracting if you notice it. Mess up the straight edge of that grass patch, and it should look better.
A minor detail that should be fixed are the barrels on the left side of the picture. I can tell that theyāre not touching the boardwalk because the light on the water is showing under them. Another minor detail to fix is the rightmost hut which doesnāt look like itās in contact with its floor.
Textures
Again, inconsistency is spoiling the picture here. The boardwalk has a wonderful texture, although it could use stains at the water level, but letās address the main issue here. In comparision to the boardwalk, the huts look undertextured. The colors are nice, but thereās no indication of what sort of construction material was used. I think you can get away with the plain walls for now, but you should concentrate on adding some sort of bump or displacement map on the roofs so that they donāt look so smooth.
I can see that there are still veins in the green leaves on the rooftops, but they donāt do much. To make them do more, two things could be done. The top sides of the leaves should be shinier than the bottom side, so the specular setting needs to be bumped up for one side if you can figure that out. A bump map would be nice too. If youāre using an image file for the color map, just plug the same image into the bump map, and that should be a good start.
Without a shoreline as a point of reference, the vertical water ripples look really weird to me. If the ripples were rotated about 90 degrees so that they run horizontal, that might look better. Be careful about the scale. You want the faraway ripples to be tinier than the closeup ripples. If thereās not much difference, then itāll betray the size of the other models in the picture.
Lighting
This seems to be the biggest problem with all three images. There wasnāt a strong light source in the first picture. There was an overhead light, but it seemed to make the picture dull because of the interaction (or the lack ofā¦) between the color, the composition, and lack of textures. Then a strong light source was added in the second picture, but a lens flare was also added, which is now one of those no-noās in good computer graphics. The ambient lighting in the second picture was way too strong. When you have too much ambient light, things look flatter which makes them look boring. So you want a happy medium where thereās some dark parts for visual contrast and some ambient lighting to help define shapes and give them dimension.
The lighting in the latest picture takes a step in the right direction and makes things look more dramatic. The yellow sunlight is a great improvement, though a bit unrealisticā¦ If youāve watched sunsets, youād probably remember that the sun is not so white-bright when itās that low on the horizon because the sunlight is refracting through a thicker layer of atmosphere than it does during the midday. I donāt know if itās intentional or not, but thereās a nice bloom in this pic (you can see it where the silohuette of the leaves are yellow instead of black in front of the sun). The more I think about it, the more I think that itās a happy accident of glow settings.
The biggest flaw in the third pictureās lighting is that the sun is not centered over the glare on the water. All the shadows of the upright poles converge on a point thatās to the left and below the sun. I can see a soft glow emitting from that point, so it looks like youāre using two light sourcesā¦
I can tell that shadow-casting was turned off on the key light (the strongest light) because the floors inside the huts are well-lit. This is the same problem with the first picture. Sure, there could be lights inside the huts, but it wouldnāt that strong or the same color. Plus thereās nothing inside the huts. If you want to hide the lack of furnishing inside the huts, itās best to turn on shadow casting, or better yet, texture the floors a dark color. A few of the objects added in the third picture donāt cast shadows, namely the barrels on the boardwalk near the center of the picture and the boat on the right.
The ambient lighting in the third picture is an improvement, but Iām not completely happy with it. Since the amibent light is coming from the right side of the picture, the left sides of the huts are flattened because theyāre completely in shadows. A possible solution is adding a dimmer ambient light (thatās not white) coming in from the left side of the picture to help define the roundness of the huts. Taking cues from the sky texture, maybe you should use purple-colored or orange-colored ambient lights. The missing shadows where the hut walls meet the roofs still need to be addressed, but letās see if the other stuff improve the picture.
For two weeks of experience with Maya, I like it, so Iām looking forward to seeing improvement in your future renders. Good luck!
OK here ya go
(Pomru) thankyou for all the advice its the best i have got from any forum I am a member of thanks to to your suggestions the scene looks a lot better (i think) you are obviously a pro either that or you have a lot of experience in this field either way your advice has proved invaluably thankyou for taking the time to wright that reply)
thanks to everyone else to I took all your suggestions into account and added them into the scene anything else it needs please let me know
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Hey mr wheels looks awesome man! mayb you could improve the end of the sea a bit, so it looks like it doesnt end but the textures on it look very cool! Try not to compress the images too much when ya turn m into jpg. For such fiew maya experiance its really cool man! keep it up.
very impressive reply Pomru there was a short novella in there
Its a very nice first image, I think Pomruās comment on the lack of shadowing highlights the most prominent flaw in the image, it appears almost full bright where the huts donāt cast any shadows into their interiors or across the cat walks outside.
Second to this I think the texturing on the roofs of the huts needs the most work a more detailed thatched grass texture would probably suffice for the moment.
Finally some sort of fogging into the distance would be good to break up the very sharp horizon that makes it look like its only a few meters away.
Great starter into 3D you certainly have the fundamentals coming along nicely.
heh anyone know where i can get a thatcht grass roof texture and BUMP map ??? I shore could use one
(Mr Wheels) You could get a picture of the grass you want off google and bring it into photoshop and possibly make the bump map yourself. It wouldnāt hurt, the more experience the better. The sooner you do that the better your hutts will lookā¦ cause the roofs look sorta like cookiesā¦ no offense hehe.
Also, do you think maybe you could put in a hint of a haze on the horizon or somthingā¦ ya knowā¦ to make it blend into the sky better rather then just an edge?
Keep up the awesome work man. I wish I had this much help w/ my frist 3d project
I think this piece is becoming much more evocative, congratulations seeing as this is your first 3d scene
The main things that hit me are the simplicity of the models and textures, i would focus on those - making elements more individual, as it looks like thereās a lot of duplicated models in here.
I recently found some pictures of a trip i made to Belize MANY years ago, check a few out, they may help set your scene.
Hope that helps, good luck and stick with it!
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OK here is Another update i think the textureon the huts is as good as it is gonna get i experimented for a few hours with textures And this was the best i could come up with I even found a thatched roof texture but it wasnāt lookin to crash hot I made some of the huts look different to add character to it all So here it is
Lookin goodā¦ I would just actually model a wrecked boat if it was me. If ya donāt wanna just take it out. Its gettin there, keep it up.
