Mt St Helen's (WIP)

[darthvader]

This bad boy is a picture of mt st helens for my friend from Vancouver in Washington State. This only took 4 hours to render which is surprising considering the number of trees and the water. I would really like to replace the flowers in the foreground with some dasies as they are my friend's favorite flower...it would make her happy, so if anybody know where to point me I would much appreciate it. As always C&C are very much appreciated

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[rcallicotte]

Pretty nice work.  I'd like brighter lighting.  Did you use Soft Shadows?

[lightning]

nice one mate
but again its way to dark
try boosting up the suns brigtness to around 6 or 7 it really helps!

[PG]

Try setting the lighting to ambient occlusion, because if you just increase the sunlight then you might spoil the foreground where the flowers are already quite bright and make the snow on the mountain almost blinding which I wouldn't expect it to be from this angle and distance.

[Mr_Lamppost]

I actually like the lighting the way it is, it looks fine to me with the sun at such a low angle.   What flowers are you using now and where did you get them?  I'd quite like those.     

There are Daisies available from the downloads area on Ashundar:

http://www.ashundar.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item351

You will need to scale them down but they are quite good.

[darthvader]

um, I don't know why it is so dark for you guys, the sun is at 30 degrees and, on my computer at least, the image looks like it is at noon. I'm guessing this is a result of us having different computer/monitor setups, if I could get your settings then I could do a better job of producing a better image for you guys

The flowers are actually from a flower pack from ashundar available in the download section, here is the link
http://www.ashundar.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item283
this pack has a lot of good flowers though most of them need to be massively scaled down.

I should have mentioned this earlier but the grass is from Lightning, thanks dude your plants are just awesome