Oued Anfeg

[wiwine]

My first contribution on this forum... all advices and comments are welcome !
The sand ripples are procedural (made with functions). I used the tutorials of D. Burnett, and worked a lot on the functions, to obtain these ripples.

[Seth]

One of my favorite image of all time !
excellent sand (best ever) and stones, love the light and the shadows, it really really looks real to me !
very good job Twiwine !

[nvseal]

Really great sand and rocks. Good lighting too. Fantastic work.

[rcallicotte]

Quite believable, even with the somewhat repeating pattern in the sand.  Great lighting.  Nice distribution of your rocks.

[child@play]

masterpiece, cool sand 

[inkydigit]

supreme work!
nothing here suggests that this is not a photograph!

[Tangled-Universe]

Great sand and rocks, beautiful!
Nice scales and lighting as well.
A superb image!

Martin

[wiwine]

To improve the realism I would like to add some shining effect on the rocks (especially under the sun). I tried to use a reflective shader... but with my poor old computer (Athlon 1900XP) it's nearly impossible to achieve the render.

[rcallicotte]

To console - the reflective shader needs work and has been promised improvements in the coming Beta.

[nvseal]

Did you turn raytracing off? I used a reflective shader in this render (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs28/f/2008/101/5/d/Canyon_Pass_by_nvseal.jpg) and the render time really wasn't that bad. on 1.6 ghz, GI 2, and quality of 0.95

[old_blaggard]

Great job!  The dunes look great, and your rocks are very detailed without seeming unrealistically so.  Great image overall - I look forward to seeing your future work.

[Tangled-Universe]

To improve the realism I would like to add some shining effect on the rocks (especially under the sun). I tried to use a reflective shader... but with my poor old computer (Athlon 1900XP) it's nearly impossible to achieve the render.

You can better use a default shader with specularity to get that shiny look. Connect a default shader as child layer to your surface layer, set diffuse color and then set specularity to strength 0.1 - 0.2 and roughness to 0.4 - 0.7. This should give a nice and subtle reflective look and renders WAY faster than the reflective shader.

[wiwine]

Thanks for the tips ! I will try that, for sure ! 

[Phylloxera]

La grande classe !

[lightning]

this is a VERY nice render the sand looks amazing
i also love how you have dusted the rocks with a layer of sand as well
so overall a very realistic render well done!!!

p.s would you be able to post the link to the tutorial?