Borealis

[Chinaski]

Hi all,

This is a borealis test (no postwork), render with technology preview version.



I was inspired by this picture, and some clipfiles found here, on planetside's forum (stars / clouds deformation (nvseal I think), thanks to the authors). There is 3 clouds layers (3 colors), land surface is black, vegetation is convert to black, sun at -3 elevation, no enviro light, render with no shadow.

You can see other renders (postworked renders) here (french forum).

[dhavalmistry]

oh very nice....I really like the water and clouds....although the backlight is too bright...

[chefc]

This looks great,love the reflection's

[rcallicotte]

This is a beautiful job.  Well done. 

[Harvey Birdman]

Excellent!!

[Will]

well done

[Tangled-Universe]

This is very good work! Never knew this could be recreated so well by TG2 :-) Great job on that!
Can't you add an additional light which cast shadows on the terrain and doesn't affect the sky. This way you can create shadows on the terrain, but I can imagine that coloring your surfaces with this lighting setup is a hell of job

[Saurav]

Excellent render, you got it pretty close to the reference photo. I actually prefer the cloud in your render better. 

[Chinaski]

Thanks to all for replys.

@ Tangled-Universe (please excuse my bad english) : Maybe it's possible to do that, I think it's possible... But I'm working on a Pentium III 1go workstation, and I'm trying to limit render time by doing a very simple scene... So I clamp a lot, mask a lot, limit octave's values, and don't use GI or shadows. The choice of the "pure" black come from that's situation.

[old_blaggard]

Beautiful work!  This is one of the prettiest images I've seen in a really long time.

[Sethren]

Good job.      I can almost see those colors swirling around doing there nightly dance.

[Kalala Chan]

Now that really is something else

Wonderful work!

[NWsenior07]

Great duplicate of that shot! I like the way you've incorporated several different tones into the image to give a sense of calm.

[otakar]

very nice. 

[moodflow]

Nice job!