Autumn Leaves (just before Winter comes)WIP

[bobbystahr]

just playin around on the last day of the year. This landscape turned up and seemed worthy of a pop or 2 so I used the bare tress and bushes and noticed the Autumn Leaves folder of leaves solo that i found at I think sharecg but had never remembered when appropriate so just lucky I guess. I kinda like where this is in a low res sorta way but am soliciting C&C once again. Worked pretty good the last few times.The leaves could be thicker on the ground but this is a WIP.

[masonspappy]

Looks like a good start. Thing I noticed is that the leaves float above the ground a few inches

[Clay]

Not seeing leaves bro??

[Dune]

To be honest, I don't think this render is suitable for the leaves, as you need tons of them and they are a bit too big (and sparse) here. I'd make a close up of a few square meters with some rocks and leaves.

[WAS]

Very nice start! Though honestly at first I thought they were tiny horses or something. With higher densities and different colour tones for different stages of decay this could look great. The hovering of the objects could be utilized with denser populations for leaves laying on others.

[fleetwood]

Has a kind of Edgar Allen Poe mysterious feeling for me. What ever you change I hope it keeps that. 

[bobbystahr]

Looks like a good start. Thing I noticed is that the leaves float above the ground a few inches

I understand...what you are seeing is one of the pops is a leaf that is deformed, tubular/rolled up....bad choice. The flat one lays down flat.

[bobbystahr]

To be honest, I don't think this render is suitable for the leaves, as you need tons of them and they are a bit too big (and sparse) here. I'd make a close up of a few square meters with some rocks and leaves.

Agree on all points....just a whim that I used 'em at all. I do plan on a more appropriate scene use of the autumn leaves. But I need a very hi res Maple tree for context...mainly the trunk obviously if it's a leaf close up....

[bobbystahr]

Another attempt, only a WIP so C&C for sure...

[AP]

I think more more the sake of realism, you might want to match the fall color of the leafs with all leaves. At least maybe make the tree leaves similar but maybe with a tad but more color then the ground leaves. The ground leaves could use more random gaps, more in a semi-cluster fashion i think. How is your translucency on your leaves doing?

[bobbystahr]

I think more more the sake of realism, you might want to match the fall color of the leafs with all leaves. At least maybe make the tree leaves similar but maybe with a tad but more color then the ground leaves. The ground leaves could use more random gaps, more in a semi-cluster fashion i think. How is your translucency on your leaves doing?

My initial thought was to unify the texture style as the leaves on the trees are named aut which I guess is autumn but I'm going to throw a PF in browns at them in the parts shader. I guess I could use the Colour Tab and put the PF on the whole tree, might be more effective.I'll try both ways on the larger pop for comparison and alter the not so good one to the much better one's settings.And the ground leaves are still too big.

[AP]

That certainly sounds like it would work. I thought there was a blue nude that allowed the hue to be altered. There might have been a post about such an effect here somewhere. The nice thing about hue adjustment is you have an easy option for all seasonal colors.

[Dune]

Agree about the colors, but I also think the leaves are too much the same. If you have some modeling app (rotating in Poseray would work), you may want to save some versions where the leaves are rotated a bit, or preferably crumpled also. You can also try a tiny displaced fractal and a tiny patch compute normal for the leaves (which should then rotate to ground) to sit on, but you'd have to play that carefully.

[bobbystahr]

Agree about the colors, but I also think the leaves are too much the same. If you have some modeling app (rotating in Poseray would work), you may want to save some versions where the leaves are rotated a bit, or preferably crumpled also. You can also try a tiny displaced fractal and a tiny patch compute normal for the leaves (which should then rotate to ground) to sit on, but you'd have to play that carefully.

Really just testing the ;eaves as there are 4 groups of 5 variations in the object I downloaded..I just separated a couple out and only used one in this image. The previous used a curled one as well but it seemed to float. I have to, once they're separated, run them all thru PoseRay to get the axis in the right spot but the textures are awfully lo res so may scrap them and try some that Chris gave me...will try the technique you recommend after my chiropractor appointment this morning....