Night House

[mrwho]

Another attempt at a night atmosphere. Obviously, the 'sun' is supposed to be a moon, and I can easily Photoshop that in. Not bad, but I think the foreground could be a bit brighter, and the low mist/fog didn't show up as well as I had hoped. Still, not bad for only 4ish hours of rendering. I do like the stone house, though. I think the weird lighting artifacts are from the reflective shaders I used on the house, b/c they never show up in other renders with the same object. Oh yeah, and I forgot to add stars 

[Oshyan]

Nice work. The house seems a bit too reflective, but otherwise is pretty cool. The atmosphere with the subtle haze is especially nice.

For the moon you could use a simple planet object with an appropriate texture and set it to luminous. It won't provide a lot of actual light unless it's blown out like this, so if you want detail in it you can use fill lights to provide ambient lighting instead. I have a pretty good moon scene going that works this way, based on a texture of the real moon.

- Oshyan

[mrwho]

i've tried using texture maps for a moon, but they never look right, which is strange

[rcallicotte]

Nice moon.  Nice lighting.  Have you tried spherical settings?  And there's a couple of places that actually have free spherical maps for the moon.

[sjefen]

Her is one moon map: http://www.oera.net/How2/PlanetTexs/MoonMap_2500x1250.jpg
But I dont know how to do it.

[rcallicotte]

Should be something around her on it.  Basically, you use spherical mapping in your Image Shader.

Her is one moon map: http://www.oera.net/How2/PlanetTexs/MoonMap_2500x1250.jpg
But I dont know how to do it.