Rocks and trees

[ADE]

love that rock.....grrrrr.......

why grr?........cos I cant get my rock as good as you ppl here

[j meyer]

The v3B versions are cool, very nice mood.
Agree on the warp.

[bobbystahr]

I like this one better. Took 1.5 hours. I pushed back the left mountainside (vdisp+SSS, which was there already to steepen it anyway). I only see that I didn't locate the spotlights very accurately, and the stones are a bit too bloated.

Very nice Ulco, and I'm sure you saw this coming, How the heck did you do those visible lights? To locate the spots I turns off everything but a dummy I make with spheres and center the lights on those locations. It's real easy with a sphere approx. the size of the lens area in diameter.

[zaxxon]

The twilight ambiance and the headlights are really well done, very convincing and artful.  This canyon scene is really evolving nicely.

[Oshyan]

The lighting of the last 2 is really great. I love the backlighting of the vegetation, especially in the 2nd to last.

- Oshyan

[Dune]

Thanks guys. So this one's worth a little more veggie variation I  guess. There's just 4 now (Douglas, youngish Pine, heather and some bush). And do the rocks better and relocate the spotlights. Btw, they have soft shadows on and I raised some value from 0 to 0.05, probably the start diameter (don't know what it's called off my head), and used a very local (10m)  thin cloud. I might put a jumping moose in 

[bobbystahr]

Btw, they have soft shadows on and I raised some value from 0 to 0.05, probably the start diameter (don't know what it's called off my head), and used a very local (10m)  thin cloud. I might put a jumping moose in 

Thanks and LOL, go for the jumping moose...very Canadian Rockies then.

[Dune]

Update with some more veggies and different light, etc. No moose.

[bobbystahr]

Perfect. You nailed the headlights absolutely! The effect of the light on the rocky road is great, too bad aboot the moose.

[luvsmuzik]

It is like he just plans that the pale grass is right there in the beam of the headlight...then you see the  spring green foliage to off set that, then the heather....muddy rocks, canyon walls...
Frame it!

[DocCharly65]

Amazing that you can get a perfect render even better!
This time watching it I recognized the beautifully lit tree on the left... 

[Dune]

The fun thing is that without a compute (just warp and vdisp) it takes only 45mins to render at 0.6 AA6, soft shadows, so I might see what it would be like with much higher settings (and some more veggies).

[masonspappy]

Perfect. You nailed the headlights absolutely! The effect of the light on the rocky road is great...

Echo Bobby!

[mhaze]

Excellent, you've got the lighting just right!