Today's Doodle, Covered Bridge

bobbystahr · October 28, 2016, 09:50:14 PM

Found this in my dirs, Covered Bridge.tgo by masonspappyand was off to the races...C&C welcome
1:16:15 render time. Thanks masonspappy. Dandilions and Buttercups from XFROG and as often is the case one of Dune's free grass bunch, # 4 I think..thanks all.
I could be wrong as I see no Covered Bridge anywhere here.

masonspappy · October 29, 2016, 01:04:48 AM

Well, I know the stroke left me with some memory holes but I don't remember creating this.

I sent you a PM containing link to my dropbox which contains a gathered TG project containing the covered bridge model.
If it turns out they are the same model then I probably need to go get my head examined again.

bobbystahr · October 29, 2016, 01:36:37 AM

Quote from: masonspappy on October 29, 2016, 01:04:48 AM
Well, I know the stroke left me with some memory holes but I don't remember creating this.
I sent you a PM containing link to my dropbox which contains a gathered TG project containing the covered bridge model.
If it turns out they are the same model then I probably need to go get my head examined again.

Nope, not yours, hmm. It's a textured .tgo model so it has to be someone I know but no friggin read me.

luvsmuzik · October 29, 2016, 11:16:56 AM

This is a great render Bobby. Showing your leafy tree texture very will forefront. Good composition.

The covered bridge object has some great effects! Light pouring into side openings at left and hitting wooden floor. My only criticism is a (showing as) white (fascia?) roof trim board in the frontal opening at top. I can also live with the white ceiling if it is a light source, but maybe darken that if not.
Great lighting and atmo! Wonderful sound of boards rumbling and blare of horn....ah the good ol' days!

ajcgi · October 31, 2016, 08:53:57 AM

Really beautiful sir.
Though... if you were to put a real camera in that position, those nearest leaves would be fuzzy even at a tight aperture like f22 as you might be, shooting into the sun like that. A little bit of DOF blur would totally sell this.

bobbystahr · October 31, 2016, 12:01:25 PM

Quote from: ajcgi on October 31, 2016, 08:53:57 AM
Really beautiful sir.
Though... if you were to put a real camera in that position, those nearest leaves would be fuzzy even at a tight aperture like f22 as you might be, shooting into the sun like that. A little bit of DOF blur would totally sell this.

Thanks mate....Yeah I get that but I'm still working on my old low power box till my boat anchor wakes up and discovers it's a workstation, heh heh heh. These are mostly sketches till the boat anchor, named Godot for now, wakes up.

ajcgi · November 01, 2016, 01:21:20 PM

Ah! Ok cool. Let's hope we see the awakening soon.

bobbystahr · November 01, 2016, 02:28:28 PM

Quote from: ajcgi on November 01, 2016, 01:21:20 PM
Ah! Ok cool. Let's hope we see the awakening soon.

Talked with him and he's in Texas, a sales event or something; he is an AMD low level exec. and he wants me to run it and generate crash logs so he can se what's happening....oddly am doing a fairly intense render test now and it's performng swimmingly at the moment.

N-drju · November 02, 2016, 04:03:28 AM

Fresh, chilly morning. Ahh, so relaxing. Good job Bobby.

bobbystahr · November 02, 2016, 09:58:41 AM

Well quite a few "torture tests" later the machine formerly known as godot has not done a BSOD and the renders are at least 3 times as fast and has adopted the name of zippy from my old fast machine; well fast when U got it any way. I'm happier than I've been for a while and when Donny comes back from his sales meeting in Houston he's coming by to retest my RAM and bring me a video card more recent than the one he put in this box who's driver was dated 4/19 2011. Hardly, I would think, up to the demands of today's TG4
Off to try some more stuff...........

masonspappy · November 02, 2016, 12:48:27 PM

Sounding very hopeful Bobby. Fingers crossed...

bobbystahr · November 02, 2016, 02:04:56 PM

Quote from: masonspappy on November 02, 2016, 12:48:27 PM
Sounding very hopeful Bobby. Fingers crossed...

working on getting depth of field in the next render of your lovely covered bridge as I type(test running)

locked up while cancelling a render and crashed TG4....back to the rawing board. At least the computer didn't crash.

DocCharly65 · November 03, 2016, 04:39:30 AM

3 time faster sound really good Bobby!
Fingers crossed here, too.

And nice render!

Perhaps with the DoF you get rid of the a bit unnatural look of the leaves in the foreground.

bobbystahr · November 03, 2016, 09:54:49 AM

Quote from: DocCharly65 on November 03, 2016, 04:39:30 AM
3 time faster sound really good Bobby!
Fingers crossed here, too.

And nice render!
Perhaps with the DoF you get rid of the a bit unnatural look of the leaves in the foreground.

Couldn't get DoF working after 3 hours of testing...seem to have a brain block so I changed the view to eliminate those leaves peeking in. Maybe come back to this when I grok DoF...I did use it successfully before but am not getting there at this time...sigh. Will post the render when done as a Final.

Dune · November 03, 2016, 11:09:31 AM

There's 2 buttons to check! One in render and one in camera.