Tropical Beach

sjefen · July 22, 2020, 01:10:36 PM

Hi,

I've been working on this tropical scene for a while now. Never done anything like this before. I usually end up with something more "Norwegian" looking with mountains and forests.

This one has been a real struggle for me. I don't touch the blue nodes cause I don't understand it, so the wave for example is hand painted inside Terragen which was a lot of work with trying, failing, tweaking and slow test renderings. The foam is a mix of hand painted shaders along with some procedural and image textures for masking. It's been a pain in the a**!
Even the vegetation was very different to work with compare to what I'm used to. Usually I can get away with just procedural masking for distribution and maybe some areas with the painted shader, but here it was a lot different and I had to hand place many of the plants.

Anyway... enough with the boring talk. I'm interested in what you guys think. I need to improve and probably need to work more on tropical scenes to get a better workflow.

Edit: The terrain is created with Gaea. Both the one in the background and the one in the foreground where the beach is on.

Tropical Beach V1 - 01c.jpg

Regards,
Terje

WAS · July 22, 2020, 01:15:26 PM

This is definitely different for you, and I love it. This is very realistic down to surf, waves and rocks, to the distant island.

What vegetation are you using?

sjefen · July 22, 2020, 01:20:26 PM

All vegetation are Xfrog models except for the grass.
Some of the trees I'm testing for Stewart.

I also have to apologize for the compression of the image, but I'm trying to keep the size down here at the forum.

- Terje

Jo Kariboo · July 22, 2020, 01:39:27 PM

It's a very nice achievement. The foam and the wave with paint shader, is well done and I have no idea how you could have done it for the wave. The sea on the other hand seems very calm for a wave of this amplitude. I really like the rocks on the left side of the wave, very realistic as a type of rock with the country. I perceive by the type of light in the shaded part of the palm trunk a high light that is a bit strong, but not too disturbing. It's more observation not a critic. Anyway the picture is superb.

sjefen · July 22, 2020, 01:58:46 PM

Quote from: Jo Kariboo on July 22, 2020, 01:39:27 PMIt's a very nice achievement. The foam and the wave with paint shader, is well done and I have no idea how you could have done it for the wave. The sea on the other hand seems very calm for a wave of this amplitude. I really like the rocks on the left side of the wave, very realistic as a type of rock with the country. I perceive by the type of light in the shaded part of the palm trunk a high light that is a bit strong, but not too disturbing. It's more observation not a critic. Anyway the picture is superb.

Thank you for the feedback. I will work on it.
I had the same thoughts for the sea after I saw the finished rendering. It needs to be a little rougher. Especially further out in the ocean.

- Terje

sboerner · July 22, 2020, 02:07:22 PM

QuoteAnyway the picture is superb.

Is it ever. Your patience really paid off here, I would say. Beautiful scene.

Kadri · July 22, 2020, 08:36:53 PM

No critics. Looks very nice to me.

WAS · July 22, 2020, 11:35:05 PM

Quote from: sjefen on July 22, 2020, 01:20:26 PMll vegetation are Xfrog models except for the grass.
Some of the trees I'm testing for Stewart.

I also have to apologize for the compression of the image, but I'm trying to keep the size down here at the forum.

Well I really appreciate you testing new models for Stewart cause I love Xfrog, even if mainly out of my budget. Always admired the models since I was a kid.

Also not that It's really active, but I do still have https://3denv.com/ up which allows you to upload huge images for conference sharing or w/e.

Hannes · July 23, 2020, 01:03:07 AM

This is really great! Wish I was there. No major crits.

Dune · July 23, 2020, 01:28:25 AM

Very nice render. Nice reflected light on the left palm, agree with previous comments.

N-drju · July 23, 2020, 04:51:10 AM

Very realistic Terje, beautiful render. I especially like the wave displacements. Seriously adds realism.

mhaze · July 23, 2020, 04:57:25 AM

Superb in every way.

sjefen · July 23, 2020, 05:02:45 AM

Thanks guys

I have a question. I created my own displacement map for the palms, but when using displacement map on a object, is it really a displacement or is it just acting like a bump map?

I think I used the word displacement way to many times in that sentence 😂

- Terje

N-drju · July 23, 2020, 05:25:33 AM

Quote from: sjefen on July 23, 2020, 05:02:45 AMI have a question. I created my own displacement map for the palms, but when using displacement map on a object, is it really a displacement or is it just acting like a bump map?

Unless you have the professional version, it is only a bump map. I think only professional has mesh displacer option.

j meyer · July 23, 2020, 12:01:54 PM

Very nice tropical scene.

Displacement maps are always treated as bump maps.(the force displacement
feature won't have correct shadows, so is no choice often)
As far as I know the mesh displacer feature doesn't work with imported maps,
just with Power Fractals and other TG-stuff.