Caves

[rcallicotte]

Here is the first render of a set of shots from a cave I've built.

Not sure what that nasty stuff in the upper-right corner is, but must be related to the lighting (source light) nearby.

[dhavalmistry]

if its the light source??...then how did you manage to get the rays?

less GI and more light!

[rcallicotte]

I found I had a cloud in there and now I'm trying to crank of the values for quality and cranking up the light rays.  I'll try to post something soon.

[ProjectX]

a cloud in a cave? interesting...

[nvseal]

At first glance I thought the image was an underwater scene of a creek bed with particles in the water creating the rays. My eyes started to bulge out of my head.  Anyway, looks nice, what quality settings do you have this one set to?

[rcallicotte]

GI is set to 1, .45 on the quality, 3 on the AA, clouds were set to somewhere around 60...but, I had forgotten about the clouds.  I have since removed the visible clouds and left the atmosphere (unchecked Enable Primary) and am working with different lighting.  But, maybe you've got something there - an underground water system or even just underwater.  Hmmm.   

[DiscoBall]

Oh that looks awesome! Well done! lol

The stones look very cool indeed

[rcallicotte]

The top one is supposed to look more like a cave and the bottom one more like underwater.  Comments welcome.  I upped the settings a little.

[dhavalmistry]

this is coming real good....except those straight vertical displacements....

I like the first one...just need little more light in foreground and maybe a really small lake or some burning wood (like camp fire) to give it that real cave look.....

I like the stones in the second one....that blue light in background distracting..I try to look at the green light and my eye keeps going to the blue light.....

its coming real good....keep it up.....both of them are nice....keep it up!

[ozijon]

Looks more under water put  fish in it

[rcallicotte]

Thanks for the comments.  I've been working on it more today and will post another to finish it off tomorrow.

[rcallicotte]

This will be my last image for caves for the meantime.  It's time to learn other things.

[Oshyan]

Wow, you came really far! This looks great - very much like an underground mine.

- Oshyan

[monks]

Hey I like these. A cave's a cave's a cave- and they all look like caves to me 

monks