Clover Glade II 3600x2500

Zairyn Arsyn · September 19, 2011, 09:41:59 AM

this is based off the same scene from my 2009 "forest temple render"
link:
http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=6822.0

there will be 2 versions: one with the temple, and one without it.

pop. credits -
Orge's mushroom
Mr. Lamppost's bush (model 3a)
Mr Miley's Clovers
nwda grass (2x)
nwda HD Fir tree (1x)
nwda HD Pine tree (2x)

C&C welcome.

FrankB · September 19, 2011, 10:14:03 AM

This is definitely a render everyone needs to view full size to appreciate it in full!
I love the atmosphere and the canopy is awesome!

Something tells me there will be a second iteration regardless

Cheers,
Frank

Zairyn Arsyn · September 19, 2011, 03:59:44 PM

of course, there will be new interations soon.

Quote from: FrankB on September 19, 2011, 10:14:03 AM

Something tells me there will be a second iteration regardless

Cheers,
Frank

choronr · September 19, 2011, 04:56:05 PM

Very nice! It would be great if you could produce rays beaming down overthe illuminated ground cover and mushrooms.

Zairyn Arsyn · September 19, 2011, 05:11:21 PM

i'm going to try something like that bob, seth suggested something similar to me earlier today, so i will be doing that soon.

Quote from: choronr on September 19, 2011, 04:56:05 PM
Very nice! It would be great if you could produce rays beaming down overthe illuminated ground cover and mushrooms.

choronr · September 19, 2011, 05:14:02 PM

Looking forward to it.

Zairyn Arsyn · September 20, 2011, 08:31:05 AM

the render should be done later today
its going to look a little different, than before, but man, it will look good!

i had to turn off one of the tree populations and and change the spacing of the other two tree populations to get the sun to shine through better.

Zairyn Arsyn · September 21, 2011, 08:06:45 AM

from yesterday, i've renamed this to the Clover Glade/Forest Temple project.
2 suns, receive shadows from surfaces ON, made the clover pop a little bigger.
render time was 8hrs 30min 55secs

now rendering a larger version with RTA on.

comments & critques welcome

Zairyn Arsyn · September 21, 2011, 08:09:19 AM

higher resoulution version of the last version of this render:

http://-zagadka-.deviantart.com/#/d4aaxq0

Seth · September 21, 2011, 08:36:44 AM

good job on this iteration

Zairyn Arsyn · September 22, 2011, 08:33:47 AM

the rays are a little brighter and better quality now
added walli's amphora luminous plant.

started on the temple version of this render.

C&C welcome

FrankB · September 22, 2011, 08:41:14 AM

the rays are sure interesting, but I really liked the previous version much better. For the price of seeing the rays clearly, now the rest is too dark. That's a shame because the rest (that's now dark) was actually beautiful.

Cheers,
Frank

Seth · September 22, 2011, 09:01:15 AM

I kinda like the contrast here.
maybe more transparency on the leaves now

did you ever try to add an ambiant occlusion, with very low strength ?
it sometimes has very very good results with vegetation

Zairyn Arsyn · September 23, 2011, 09:10:51 AM

this interation should be brighter. (for frankb)

i did some HDR toning in photoshop with this as well
also added some transparency to the leaves/needles

i have been using Ambient Occlusion lighting for this render
should add a second AO or switch one of my lighting modes to GI?

C&C welcome

FrankB · September 23, 2011, 09:39:42 AM

well then your last image has only AO and no GI

What Seth meant was to *add* another enviro light, set it to AO and reduce it's strength on surface to say 0.1 or 0.2 and on atmosphere to 0 (I would say).