Heart Break Road

[EmDee1]

A picture of a small road on an island in front of the Dutch coast. I stayed there for a short holiday and made long walks there last autumn. No mountains here...

[rcallicotte]

Nicely done.  At first, I thought I was looking at something rendered in Vue 6.  Nice.

[ozijon]

Well done very nice

[Mavcat]

Bit grainy and some flat clouds, but the setting and terrain is very nice

[Volker Harun]

Very good scene setup. Some tweaks on the atmosphere and the colouring may make it a stunner.

[old_blaggard]

Nice job with the robe.  I agree that it actually kind of looks like a Vue render.

[EmDee1]

Thanks for your kind comments, people! Was my first uploaded image, so I felt a bit insecure how reactions would turn out. The grainyness: would that have someting to do with the number of atmosphere- and cloud samples?

[Mavcat]

Thanks for your kind comments, people! Was my first uploaded image, so I felt a bit insecure how reactions would turn out. The grainyness: would that have someting to do with the number of atmosphere- and cloud samples?

Its about your cloud quality,try making it higher,but beware of longer rendering times,and they can get reallyyyyyy longer If you want i can give you the whole story of how it is related (If im right about that ofcourse )

[Volker Harun]

I disagree - as you can see the grain in front of the trees you should first increase the atmosphere samples. Try to go up in steps of ~20 samples, to get a feeling for it.
If there should still be grain left in the sky, go for Mavcat's advice.

[Mavcat]

I disagree - as you can see the grain in front of the trees you should first increase the atmosphere samples. Try to go up in steps of ~20 samples, to get a feeling for it.
If there should still be grain left in the sky, go for Mavcat's advice.

And again,my noobiness is prover  

[ozijon]

I always set my atmo Quality on 64 and render on Quality 1 works just fine

[EmDee1]

The render I posted July 21th had for Atmo 40, Clouds 300. Not to bad I think. Maybe it is the fairly small size I rendered it, that causes the grainyness (?). The image was 1280x960, and to upload it I made it 760x570. I upload a new one now; rendered at 2560x1920 pixels and reduced it again to 760x570 pixels. It took a real long time to render, so I changed Atmo to 32, clouds to 128. Render time:
31 hours. There is some grainyness here and there, so higher quality settings in Atmo and Clouds still may be a good choice, but the improvement is considerable I believe.

[Saurav]

The clouds shouldn't need to be at that high settings for this scene I'd imagine, for most scenes I find that 128 samples are plenty. Increase your atmo settings as Volker has mentioned and you should see the grain reduced.

[sjefen]

I'm also sure it's the atmosphere samples.
Great image tho.

[Tangled-Universe]

Doesn't the sample level depend on the cloud depth? Thus, greater depths = greater sample levels? (for clear/clean results)
Cloud depth doesn't seem to be really high in this render, so 128 samples might be sufficient indeed.

I've read you rendered it at a high resolution. For what reason, posters? If I were you I'd chose half the resolution and to raise atmo samples as stated before.
There's a fairly simple rule of thumb:

if grain in clouds --> increase cloud samples
if grain on terrain/features (like trees) --> increase atmo samples.

As you can see there's little to no grain in your clouds but a greater amount of grain on your terrain/features.

I like your render by the way. Very nice concept, execution and use of vegetation. May be it's nice to put a few slightly larger fake stones on the road?