Remembering Bob

[bobbystahr]

Every time I make a desert type scene I think of Bob (chornor) the desert master. With the erosion plugin back in the pipeline this quickly evolved and required a desert atmosphere. Luckily I had a few of Bob's to choose from so I guess this is a jam session. The strata needs more work so I'll call this a W I P and add C&C welcome

[yossam]

Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also. 

[bobbystahr]

Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also. 

Thanks, in the works for the strata but I hesitate on the clouds as they're a Bob clip, part of my memory.

[masonspappy]

Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also. 

Thanks, in the works for the strata but I hesitate on the clouds as they're a Bob clip, part of my memory.

Bob loved to experiment and tweak settings. He'd probably tell you to go for it   

[bobbystahr]

Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also. 

Thanks, in the works for the strata but I hesitate on the clouds as they're a Bob clip, part of my memory.

Bob loved to experiment and tweak settings. He'd probably tell you to go for it   

You're prob'ly right...I'll see what I can come up with then.....

[Dune]

Good show, Bobby, to remember Bob this way. I agree with Richard, break it all up, soften clouds. You can use more than one strata shader, with totally different settings, angled, masked by PF, whatever, to get a more diverse terrain. I'd work on the terrain first, then see if it needs clouds.

[DocCharly65]

... I'd work on the terrain first, then see if it needs clouds.

as he says 

[inkydigit]

Bob would've loved this... maybe some more varied cacti?
great job all the same, and a great sentiment, Bobby

J

[Hannes]

Great, Bobby! I'm missing Bob. I loved his comments.
Agree about the improvements. I'm sure, Bob would love it!

[bobbystahr]

Well the other set up just wasn't cooperating so I started fresh. Seems Ulco was right, sometimes you really don't need those lovely clouds as this is a desert after all...Ozone really helped the sky a lot.
Was rendering an AA8, Detail.7 version over nite and came awake to find TG4 BETA had closed/crashed...went looking for an automatic save and wadda ya know there are none for the BETA...near as I can tell and I did search.
Anyhow here's this version, C&C welcome.

[Dune]

I like this, but I think you need a slightly higher POV, and group/cluster the plants more into patches, perhaps restricted to lower areas? In gullies, eroded, sort of.

[Jo Kariboo]

I much prefer the latter. I believe that as Dune distributions of vegetation could be improved.

[bobbystahr]

In agreement guys and thanks for the confirmation. That's what I had on the render that disappeared...most curious that. Has anyone else had a disappearing render like that and has any one found the BETA auto output files?

[DannyG]

I think of Bob (chornor)

Bob was the man, I miss him around here as well

[Oshyan]

Automatic save of images works the same way in TG4 beta as it does in TG3. First, make sure the option is enabled. Second, images are only saved *if the render completes*. In the case of crashes it usually will not be able to save an image.

- Oshyan