Dale... Finished (ish)

[mr-miley]

Hi all.

I did some more surfacing work and extended the pine population and tweaked the water a bit on my Dale render that I posted a week or so ago. I did want to put whitecaps on the water as its quite choppy, but the results I got only coloured some of the water white, didn't look anything like whitecaps at all If theres anyone out there fancy writing a tutorial for whitecaps....?

Anyway, hope you like the new version (there is a difference... honest ) It took 68 hours and 7 mins to render  at 800x600 on my twin 3GHz Xeon workstation so I am NOT going to do it bigger

[rcallicotte]

I see the difference and love it.

[moodflow]

Really nice!

The water looks really good, but the waves are slightly too steep.  Any ratio above 1:7 height to wavelength, and waves will "white cap" in deep water, or "break" in shallow water. 

Sorry to be so technical, but I really like the look of that water.   

[mr-miley]

Ta Calico and moodflow, glad you like. Moodflow, never worry about getting too technical. Info like this is always useful to someone, even if most people haven't got a clue what you are on about  As soon as I work out how to get "frothy" looking whitecaps, I'll add them to this scene. I agree the water looks a little "odd" without them

[sjefen]

I like it. The clouds are great and I'm looking forward to the update mr-miley