Rain

[bobbystahr]

May I suggest some water droplets on some of the plants.

You may. Look closer...

holy crap that's good...thanx for the invite to look closer...I rarely zoom that far in...brilliant image all round. Thanx for the illuminating plane technique reminder...used that a lot in Imagine for inexpensive no shadow area light...

[zaxxon]

That's a wonderful idea and resulting image Hannes! I much prefer the first image, something about a render imitating a camera seems a little off to me  . I like the creativity and the mood. excellent!

[j meyer]

Keep up the experimenting spirit.

[Kadri]

I like both of them.Nice images Hannes.

[TheBadger]

please more rain and stuff like this. Very interesting to me as well.

Also, this light box thing you are doing, its just a plane used as light? how does this work exactly?

[Hannes]

It's quite simple. The environment light, which doesn't cast any light to the scene on it's own, makes the light from the selfilluminating plane reflect onto the scene.

[Kevin F]

Nice image, very atmospheric (no pun intended!). I like the rain effect, especially that it's done within TG. I tried several years ago using a short free utility that enabled the addition of "rain" by overlaying small dots on the image and streaking them. It had basic controls like colour, size and direction. Can't find it at the moment, but might be tempted to post a couple of rainy images made using it myself.

[Cocateho]

Nice solution and very well executed!

[Rumburak]

I like it very much. The rain is amazing. I tried to get something like that several times, but unfortunately I didn't even come close to your results. Could you share your settings for the 'rain cloud'?

[Hannes]

Sure! I'll post the file as soon as I've made it scaled correctly.

[Hannes]

Done. You can find the tgc in the file sharing section.

[Rumburak]

Thanks a lot, I will give it a try as soon as I'm back home.