Realism Test - Big

[Walli]

top notch!

[Tangled-Universe]

That looks very good!

Hi, I agree this is a very good render, quite realistic!
If I may have one critique: the foreground clouds are too dense. I think that so close to the camera, the clouds would appear softer and less dense.
Other than that, love it

I'm with Frank on this one.

Looking forward to see your next version!

Cheers,
Martin

[Icegrip]

Very nice scene!! It's very realistic, I like how you made the ground and trees:)
Which models have you used? How many tree models are there?

[chris_x422]

Excellent work.

Wish the view from my parents was that picturesque!

Looking forward to seeing how far you can push this.

Chris

[mesocyclone]

Very realistic indeed! Awesome!
Though the fog/clouds could be a little less denser near the camera.

[Gannaingh]

Here's the final version (maybe)! I've added several high altitude cloud layers to give the image some more depth as well as thinning out the fog as was suggested. I also added some slight DOF, it isn't technically realistic but I like the effect. This has been a lot of fun to do since I grew up seeing this view just about every day. Hopefully you all enjoy the result as much as I do.

@ Icegrip: I have eight populations. Three x-frog medium grand fir, x-frog one small grand fir, one Dandel0 larch tree, one NWDA bush, and two winter trees from MGebhart. All of the models except the bush can be found for free somewhere here on the forums. I think the total was somewhere north of 2 million object instances for this scene.

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Realism-Test-275687719

[Dune]

Excellent result! The thinner mist makes it even more realistic.

[mhaze]

superb!

[cyphyr]

Perfect, I have no crits!
Often there is a difficulty with getting models tonality to match the landscape but you've got it spot on. The dead trees are a good trick to break up the forest too.
Five stars as they say in that other place! lol
Richard

[Oshyan]

Superb end result! It only seems a bit noisy to me. Maybe more AA? What was it set at?

- Oshyan

[Henry Blewer]

I had to grab a copy of this one. Very awesome!

[freelancah]

Very nice update! Agree about the noise also!

[Gannaingh]

Oshyan, the AA was set at 6 with the maximum number of samples. I'm going to have to fiddle with the AA settings more because if I increase the AA to get rid of the noise from the leafless trees then the evergreens appear softer than desired. I'll mess around with the settings and post any improved results.

[Gannaingh]

As promised, here are the results. The render settings are not optimized for a balance of speed and render quality, but since I had over a day where I wouldn't be able to touch my computer I thought I might as well just bump up the settings and render size . Enjoy!

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Realism-Test-275687719

[Jo Kariboo]

I very like this one! Beautifull!!!