Bathroom: Luxrender vs. Indigo

23 Oct 2014

The Creston Bathroom Model was created by Greg Ward, the original author of Radiance as part of a bathroom renovation project. Different materials and paints were used to give the bathroom various appearances. In this Blog post we will talk about the results I get with Indigo and Luxrender (using just one set of materials).

Shower door visible in mirror Shower door visible in mirror

Shower and window Shower and window

Sink, toilet, and floor Sink, toilet, and floor

Inside the shower stall Inside the shower stall

The bathroom vanity and basin The bathroom vanity and basin

As you can see the camera perspective doesn’t match 100% (I created an issue to fix it in the exporter) and Indigo is forcing you to use depth-of-field (DOF), but otherwise the lighting and the tonemapping (in both cases linear) are pretty close to each other.

What’s also missing are non-texture-based, procedural patterns, as you can see here (for the wood, the marble, and the floor tiles) in a Radiance and Arnold rendering:

procedural patterns, for the wood, the marble, and the floor
tiles procedural patterns, for
the wood, the marble, and the floor tiles

As usual the scene files are available in a repository.