Rockpool...

[dandelO]

This is my first real image post over here, I've been recommended to post it here by others.
Usualy I'd shy away from graffitiing this site with my renders because, in truth, I do feel kind of dwarfed by the skill and knowledge of T2 shown by you regular posters here at Planetside, it's a bottomless pit of knowledge and has been a great help to me over the last few months of learning T2, I've spent many hours reading this site. It's great and I thank you all!

So here's my image, any comments/critiques/etc.s would be greatly apprecciated. This is currently the 3rd 'final' version I've made
The water transparency method I used was Sonshine777's wet/dry merge shader technique, which he kindly shared with me over at Terranuts.

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Thanks for looking!

[cyphyr]

Really Good, hehe I just saw the fish  !
Richard

[dandelO]

Thanks, Cypher!

***I should also say that this was made with the free version of the tech preview, no postwork either, it's all T2.
I'd kill for bigger renders, extra AA and pop' limits sometimes but, money is the way of the World... Just not my world at the moment

[Mahnmut]

Wow.
Who´s dwarfing now?
where can I find this transparent Water method?
And the fish, if you don´t mind?
best regards, Jan

[Seth]

yeaaah already told you : niiiice dandel0

[old_blaggard]

Very nice work!  I think this image would be even better if instead of a flat seabed you put a layer of small rocks.

[rcallicotte]

I like it a lot.  My only suggestion is to have the rocks look more like real rocks.  Those sharp edges contribute to its slight (and I do mean very slight) fakeness.  Otherwise, this is one of the best I've ever seen.  Hope you understand my pickiness isn't that I don't think it's excellent work, but a desire to see it be everything it can be.

[dandelO]

Thankyou for your input everyone.
Jan, the water technique is from Sonshine777 and is posted somewhere in here. And the fish are DAZ Studio content trout... Yes, I've scaled them down a fair bit.

[sonshine777]

Thanks for sharing your image here, I was hoping that you would. You have done a great job combining the two images. As I stated over at Terranuts a little mor texture to the rocks and this image will be over the top awesome! !

[dandelO]

Aw, man! This is the textured version. Bummer! Back to the drawing board... 

Here's the last one that you suggested adding some rock detail to... [attachimg=#]

[sjefen]

Very good, but I like the first one best.

[sonshine777]

Aw, man! This is the textured version. Bummer! Back to the drawing board... 

Here's the last one that you suggested adding some rock detail to... [attachimg=#]

Sorry about that, I didn't pay attention to the details, you did make a huge improvement over the first image. My bad! Have you posted it over at Terranuts yet?

[dhavalmistry]

add caustics and it will be a perfect render!

[rcallicotte]

I like the detail, but I'm worried that the sharp edges on the top of the rocks look unreal.  Or maybe someone has seen rocks like these and I've been sheltered from it?  Anyway, I love it otherwise.  Both renders look very good.

[dandelO]

No no, I think I might have confused people here in my wording of my last post.

I meant, the first image in this thread is the current final textured, version 3.

The second one I posted here (in my last comment, with the 'plastic' stones) was version 2, to show the comparison to what it was before.

Sonshine: Yes I've posted it at TN! Lol, you've already voted on it BEFORE posting here to ask if it was uploaded there! Lol!