Displaced Sandstone (renderspeed test @ HQ settings)

[Tangled-Universe]

Hi All,

This image has been rendered with quality @ 1.25, detail blending 1.25, GI 3/3 and AA 10.
The high-quality was necessary to render the tiny fakestones and other details smoothly.
Atmo-samples were 96 and softshadows diameter was 10 at 30 sampes.
Resolution is 960x1280 and the rendertime on a quadcore Q6600 was just 12,5 hours
The tgd is quite similar to one of my latest canyon-images and those took nearly 50 hours on each core, so I'm very happy with the speedup.

The black areas are probably due to too low GI quality of lighting on heavy displacements. I still have to test that by the way.
C&C welcome, thanks for stopping by.

Martin

[Xpleet]

Wow impressive, and so realistic.

Is it the version that already supports multithreaing?

[Tangled-Universe]

Wow impressive, and so realistic.

Is it the version that already supports multithreaing?

Thank you and yes, this has been rendered with the latest update.

[nvseal]

Amazing work here TU, really really impressive. Can't wait for more. 

[rcallicotte]

Great shapes.  Very realistic in shape.

[Tangled-Universe]

Thank you guys

I've tested higher GI settings to determine if GI is really responsible for the black areas and it seems it isn't.
I've rendered crops with GI up to 6/6 and later also with GI surface detail enabled but all didn't improve it.
Does anybody have a clue?

Martin

[RArcher]

Really nice surfacing work.  Unfortunately I don't have any idea of what would cause the black marks other than the occasional displacement tearing I sometimes get when using the redirect shader.

[Seth]

good start !

[j meyer]

As for the dark spots i've seen comparable effects with power fractals used
for coloring,just a thought.

[choronr]

Amazing work Martin!

[JimB]

Are you sure the dark spots aren't the base surface layer showing through, after perhaps being switched off or darkened?

[Tangled-Universe]

Thank you guys

Well Jim, I'm not so sure about my case anymore so you might be right. I will have to check it out to be sure.

Like I said I often have troubles with coloring the surfaces.
In many cases the chosen colors do not have the same result when rendered.
All probably because of lighting conditions but nevertheless I find that hard to cope with.

I'll check out your suggestions when I'm back home. Thank you for your input

Martin

[mr-miley]

TU
Glad its not just me when it comes to choosing colours and then finding that they render as a completely different colour to the one chosen  Thats about the only thing I miss from TG 0.9XX At least if you chose a colour in that then it rendered in the same vague colour range 

Miles

[choronr]

I think that 'lighting' and shadows plays a major role as to how the color will be perceived.

[mr-miley]

I realise that, its just that it seems to play a damn sight bigger part than it did in V0.9 If you used a colour in V0.9 at least it rendered sort of like the colour you chose, In this version most of the time the colours render nothing like the ones you chose and it makes it rather difficult to get what you want.