Above All **HQ UPDATE**

[dhavalmistry]

Basically, this is a rock test turned into a final....

I am working on adding more snow and better clouds and some other minor adjustments

[Tangled-Universe]

Very cool rock shapes. I especially like how the snow fills those cracky surfaces. Did you use intersect underlying settings for this, or masking with the functions?
Looks very good. It seems you didn't change any gamma and contrast settings in the renderer? It has a bit of a haze all over it.
Reducing gamma and increasing contrast a little will spice the render up a lot.

Martin

[dhavalmistry]

yea I used intersect underlying feature and yes I didnt touch any contrast or gamma settings...I left them as default....and yes I turned up the haze...I have another render in progress with reduced haze....

[Tangled-Universe]

yea I used intersect underlying feature and yes I didnt touch any contrast or gamma settings...I left them as default....and yes I turned up the haze...I have another render in progress with reduced haze....

I guess you misunderstood me a little bit on the haze. The haze should remain the same because it gives a nice sense of depth to your image. Reducing the gamma to about 1.75 and increasing contrast to about 1.35 removes the hazy look in the foreground, making your image a lot more clearer without losing the sense of depth which you'll obviously lose when reducing haze.

How did you determine which kind of intersect underlying mode you had to use and its settings? It's still a mystery to me how this feature works and what it exactly does. The latter I know a little about, but the settings...?

[dhavalmistry]

the settings were default but I used "Displacement Intersection" for intersection type since I have some displacements applied to the rock.

I dont understand this feature completely either but favor rises distributes the surface layer in a way that all the dents/cracks/gashes on the surface are ignored and its vice versa with favour depressions. But I think these two features are calculated based on actual terrain and ignoring all lateral the displacements. Where as displacement intersection is calculated based on everything applied including all the lateral displacements. But I could be as much wrong as I could be right.

To better understand the feature you can apply this feature without turning on any slope/height limits....just default surface layer with intersect underlying feature turned on....

[rcallicotte]

I like what you're doing and hope we see the final...maybe with tomorrow's final...eh?  Eh?  Eh?

[NWsenior07]

This should turn out quite nice. I really like your use of the intersect underlying to get the snow into the cracks.

[Will]

Nice shot, I like how its composed. nice clouds

[moodflow]

@Dhaval.  Those clouds look pretty good.  I think the mountain texture looks nice, but could use some color and texture variety to spice it up a bit.  The haze is nearly perfect.

@Tangled:  Thanks for the tip on the gamma and contrast for haze tuning.  I've had some trouble getting haze to work properly.  Its either too much or too little, and this should help.

[dhavalmistry]

thanx guys....I am not home right now but when I get home in about an hour or so...I should have the other render done with modified contrast/gamma settings and also an extra layer of snow....

[dhavalmistry]

changed the gamma to 1.95 and contrast to 0.75

and a new snow layer...

[Oshyan]

Oh heck yeah.

- Oshyan

[rcallicotte]

Ooooh.  DH, this looks good.  Now, let's see it bigger and maybe a little higher quality.

And this is just me, but I somehow want to see that first crag a bit closer. 

[dhavalmistry]

thanx Oshyan & calico...I am rendering a HQ version (1360 x 768) at 0.7 quality and its almost done! maybe couple of more hours

And this is just me, but I somehow want to see that first crag a bit closer. 

or maybe you are just craving for a higher quality! 

[child@play]

awesome image dhav, can't wait to see the final final