kinda neat pic

[crunchy frog]

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I don't really like how the other planet got sort of pixelated, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

[Will]

thats pretty cool, have your tried making the secound planets atmo have a higher sample amount? (its under the internal setting, right-click). If you can fix that and add some stars it would be evenb better

Regards,

Will

[old_blaggard]

That's a really interesting image.  I'm impressed how you managed to get the sharp transition from light to dark.  I really like the atmosphere's colors too.  Overall great job .

[Will]

just to add on what Old_blaggard just said, the colors are really neat but what I found intresting was how it made a redshift.

Regards,

Will

[child@play]

very nice pic, especially the colours

[crunchy frog]

Here's the file, in case anyone reading this has a TG2 without render size limits *wink*
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[Njen]

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I don't really like how the other planet got sort of pixelated, but I can't figure out how to fix it.

Try increasing your antialiasing to take out the pixelation.

[Will]

I think he has the free version, just assuming from his other posts.

Regards,

Will

[Oshyan]

Actually increasing the detail helps much more than increasing AA in this case. I'll post some re-renderes later on when I get home.

- Oshyan

[Will]

neat, it will be cool to see those.
Regards,

Will

[Oshyan]

Alrighty, here are 2 versions of it at higher detail. I tried increasing AA but it didn't have a significant effect. Increasing detail was the only thing that really affected the jagged planet edge.

Here's detail 1 with GI 2/2. Render time was 1 hour and 20 minutes:
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And here's detail 2 with GI 1/1. Render time was 4 hours and 27 minutes:
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Interestingly, although the edge of the planet is smoother here, there is also more banding in the sky and some odd blotchiness in the lower-right. It also loses some of the nice soft lighting of those mountains in that area. A combination of all 3 might be best, in fact, because I also liked the sort of "rainbow sparkles" along the edge of the planet, despite the jaggedness. If you could combine the slight color variations of detail 1 with the smoothness of detail 2 and the lower-right from the original, I think it'd be the best of the lot.

- Oshyan

[old_blaggard]

Interesting tests there, Oshyan.

[dhavalmistry]

just a question Oshyan:

why did you decrease GI for the second re-render???....any particular reason??

[crunchy frog]

If you could combine the slight color variations of detail 1 with the smoothness of detail 2 and the lower-right from the original, I think it'd be the best of the lot.

I'll try doing that in photoshop this weekend.

[Oshyan]

There are two reasons I decreased GI in the 2nd case. First, the GI detail is *relative*, so if you increase overall detail then to maintain the same level of GI quality you should actually decrease GI. Since the lighting was "good enough" at detail 1 I figured it'd be ok to reduce it. I also wanted to avoid extra render time and see whether it would actually have a significant effect. It didn't seem to. The detail slider had the greatest impact.

- Oshyan