Reworking interiors. I picked up the i13 Trendy Cafe for free over the weekend due to Daz3D's generous coupons, but I hate seeing the same scene out of the box in games. So, I have started my renovations on the property. First to go was redoing the tables and seats in nice wood using free wood shaders. Next came replacing the artwork, which was accomplished due to the generosity of Smithsonian Institution making a metric tonne of free images available. I also used some Daz Uber shaders that came with the game. Here is the first round of renovations. I may change the brick out for something different as well to differentiate it further.
This took almost 2 hours to render because it was done with all ambient lighting and was a low-light scene. Fortunately, I didn't have to monkey with that as I used one of the i13 camera presets and I was able to get sufficient light in the scene by tweaking the f-stop, ISO, and exposures.
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This setup reminds me more of Gypsy Den in southern California. They use old artwork (which I think they pick up from garage sales) to decorate their shops. Other coffee shops use their walls as gallery walls to show (and potentially sell) artwork from artists in the community. I have not seen one coffee shop using wall images as ugly and unimaginative as the defaults that come with the i13 Trendy Cafe set.
