An evening at the lake

[Hannes]

My own attempt to create a campfire. I used the same wood model as luvsmuzik did with my own burning wood shader assigned to it. I added some localised clouds and a few orange lightsources to get some sort of glow where the fire is. Plus another cloud layer with some special settings for the sparks.
For the smoke I used another plane with an image map shader. When I first tried to render everything together I had some strange dark and flat areas where the smoke plane is. I tried a lot of things and eventually came up with the solution of creating a GI cache file WITHOUT the smoke plane, and then rendered the scene WITH the smoke plane using the previously created GI cache file, which worked perfectly.

[KlausK]

...and he is staring at the sunset?!?!?!?

That is really well done!
CHeers, Klaus

[mhaze]

Hmmm, I think she's sneakin' up on him.

[archonforest]

what a lucky bastard...

[Lady of the Lake]

Super campfire.

[WAS]

Wow this looks great! Honestly, while the fire looks great I'm more drawn to the shoreline contrasting the water. It looks especially realistic imo. Mind sharing veggie names/packs? I've been writing down a wishlist for TG that accompanies the big wishlist "TERRAGEN" lol.

I started a campfire with the image map attempt but somehow my images have been corrupted when I backed up my projects folder to Google Drive. Every single project image has been corrupted. I'm so upset. I don't even remember some of the images used in some projects which will now just be broken. Least I know where I found some good fire stocks.

For those that backup to google drive, I have no clue what happened other than any png/jpg/gif image has been destroyed. TIFF images are fine from more recent projects, or what I have saved in TIFF (I've been using it almost exclusively). I made a support topic but I advise if you add your project folder to sync list, make sure it's a copied folder.

[masonspappy]

I can't take my eyes off that beautiful  campfire (kill me).   

[Kadri]

Very nice work Hannes.
Especially the women looks great for a Terragen render

[DocCharly65]

I can't take my eyes off that beautiful  campfire (kill me).   

ECHO!!!     

No - really!  Excellent work, Hannes

[Dune]

That is so good! Smart solution, I have to keep that in mind. It would still be good if it'd work without smart solutions, though.
Yeah, guy is looking the wrong way, but I don't care 

[Hannes]

Thanks guys!

Yes, there are open questions. Is this guy an enthusiastic ornithologist who passionately explores the mating behavior of a very rare breed of an eastern european partridge race during the evening, or is he just an idiot?

Is the girl a naughty girl, or does she suffer from a fungal infection?

Questions upon questions...

However, Jordan, you asked about the plants I used. The distant trees are made of a free sample of Archmodel's trees. I don't know, if it's still available. It's been years ago.
Additionally I used this one here for the foreground:
https://planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,6997.msg74409.html#msg74409#

and another free wetland reed grass model from Cadnav.
The grass is a model by Lightning, a former member of the forum, who left long time ago.

[DannyG]

Excellent render. The fire looks great. though I think the the dude needs to get his priorities in order

[luvsmuzik]

Good job on this Hannes! Thanks for a great and quick solution! Mine is rendering at 1hr 45 minutes at 0.6MPD and 6AA. Clouds adding 15 minutes to render time. i have 6 vegetation pops and both flame card pops. 4 light sources and sun.

[Hannes]

...both flame card pops...

What do you mean? Isn't there just one card? Populations of this setup can be problematic like I wrote here:
https://planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,24719.msg251428.html#msg251428

[otakar]

Fantastic! And not just the fire, of course.