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[yossam]

All different shades of green.......................

[TheBadger]

Its a good scene Yossam.

I want to ask about something I see in this render and many others now though. It seems, for lack of a better way to describe it, a little "scratchy"... I don't know how to say it better right now.

I see this a lot in peoples renders, and my own from time to time. THings don't look smooth. I don't mean the objects need to be smoothed, I mean the entire render has a kinda rawness to it.

does anyone see what I mean, and have a better way to describe it?! Is it the light its self (GI) not high enough? I don't know, It would help if someone sees what I mean and can describe it better.

Anyway, its a good scene.

[yossam]

It could be the filter I used............got another cooking with some adjustments. 

[Bjur]

Yup, lovely scene.

A beautiful place for a possible frog, taking a sunny break on top of one of those swimming leaves.. 

I want to ask about something I see in this render and many others now though. It seems, for lack of a better way to describe it, a little "scratchy"... I don't know how to say it better right now.

I see this a lot in peoples renders, and my own from time to time. THings don't look smooth. I don't mean the objects need to be smoothed, I mean the entire render has a kinda rawness to it.

does anyone see what I mean, and have a better way to describe it?! Is it the light its self (GI) not high enough? I don't know, It would help if someone sees what I mean and can describe it better.

Anyway, its a good scene.

Michael, I believe I know what you mean.

I posted just a few pictures till yet, more to show something specific then "beauty" renders of whatever.

After posting my "Star Wars" fan-fun render (Darkwater Bay) I was wondering a bit about the huge quality loss, even it wasn't a HQ render with TG 3 Free back then.

I realized that my pictures already low JPEG quality and size got automatically recompressed by the forum/TG site itself (like vids uploaded to YT for saving traffic and space).
Shown was the old original size of the uploaded picture but downloadable and seeable are just the compressed versions it seems.

Richards pic is a good example: It shows the old, original size but if you download it the size, thus the quality, seems ~5 times that small.

I was asking about the perfect choice of uploading a render, but got no answere, I guess for full quality you have generally to upload your
picture somewhere else and then you have to link it.
I may lay totally wrong and I don't have to care about such things ATM, but I think this could be the reason in all, why some wonderfull
scenes are looking relative "filthy"..

Pls., may someone confirm this or enlighten me, us, ore the whole world, I don't want to die clueless somewhen!     

[TheBadger]

Im just glad you know what I meant.

[yossam]

A few changes.............

[Oshyan]

I've changed a setting which may improve image processing in the forums. Most of the time when I see this sort of thing I suspect it is due to one of two things though, either a "sharp" filter used in Terragen, or some higher-than-ideal post processed sharpening. Some people seem to sharpen their images just as a matter of habit. I suppose they like the look, but I for one really don't. The other possibility of course is low AA...

- Oshyan

[TheBadger]

That looks better with respect to my original thought/question Yossam. So what did you do differently?
But now it looks a bit muddy/out of focus sorry.

[TheBadger]

Oshyan,
What did you change? What do we need to know to benefit form it? Or will it just be automatic thing that happens, and we need not think about it?

[Oshyan]

Automatic. I'd tell you if you needed to do something different, of course.

- Oshyan

[yossam]

I just tried to upload another version just now..........."your attachment failed security checks. Contact the system administrator" 

[Oshyan]

Heh, well... that would be why it was getting recompressed then. I disabled the recompression but apparently can't disable the security check. Try removing all meta data, if you can. If it still doesn't work then I'll have to re-enable that feature...

- Oshyan

[yossam]

No go...............

[Oshyan]

OK. I've re-enabled the re-encode then. Same potential problem as before, but at least it will let you post images.

- Oshyan

[yossam]

One mo' time...............


Thanks Oshyan.