W9 | Test Rendering + Displacement with JS Placement

I started to fidget around with JS Placement and attempt to start modeling my environment. I started off with following this tutorial with blender 3D about displacing textures, I was stuck on certain area although I’ve already followed one by one on the tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka9VfXXQlLg&t=222s

Being very new to blender, I asked Johnathan and Ronald for help. Johnathan is not very familiar to blender and hence he did not advise me on this matter, but he mentioned that I should model with it with Cinema 4D instead because learning everything from scratch now especially during my final year project is not recommended. I took the advise but out of curiosity, I still wanted to learn how to displace using Blender. I looked for Ronald in Fabrication Lab to learn more on Blender‘s interface as it is very different with Cinema4D. I went back and reflect on whether it’ll be better using blender considering how good the render engine in blender is but, at the end of the day using a software I’m familiar with at the moment will be the best call. I have a long history with ProRender being very grainy and I figured that since ProRender render outcome is always like that, I looked for a fellow classmate for help. Milton, he mentioned that the new Cinema 4D has a denoiser effect added into the software and he also gave me an example of the render outcome with and without the denoiser.

My Displacement map with JS Placement using ProRender without Denoiser

My Displacement map with JS Placement usingProRender without Denoiser

ProRender without Denoiser

ProRender with Denoiser

(Render outcome by Milton)

After looking at the outcome, I think that the outcome is very ideal, minimal noise is seen but the light aspect I will need to experiment myself and decide whether to continue using ProRender. If not, I will need to rent the Octane Renderer. Having experience with Octane Renderer, I am confident that the outcome will be much nicer than ProRender.

Initially, I wanted to start modelling my environment but when I was looking at the blank canvas, I can't seem to know where to start. I then started sketching a city scape first before I went and look for the specialists for consultation.