riverside rays - wip

[lonewolf]

This is something that kind of evolved from seth's tut. I like it, but there's something it needs I can't quite figure out.

Iain

[rcallicotte]

No offense meant, since it sounds simple (and is tricky) - lighting.  I'd try the Background / GI lighting experimentation.  Looks good, though.

[domdib]

I'm inclined to agree with calico - I think there needs to be some kind of lighting - more rays perhaps? - in the foreground.

[Seth]

definitely light on the foreground... ^^

[lonewolf]

Here is the next installment. Much better, but might need some thing else.
Any suggestions?

Iain

[Zylot]

Much better lighting, but we can now see that there appears to be trees in the water?

[neuspadrin]

much better for the second one, though looks populations could use a little shrubbery chopping

[lonewolf]

Didn't notice thast when I posted that up this morning 
Will have to address the distribution shader and sort that out.

Iain

[Seth]

oooh I really like the light on the trees ! good job !

[moodflow]

Wow, nice!

[lonewolf]

After hacking away at the shrubbery for a while, I wiped the sweat away from my eyes to see that the plants were in fact on a little outcropping in the river. How silly were we!
Anyway, I like this version better, and I have 2 versions to get your opinion on as I saved in exr.
1. Straight out of TG
2. A couple of photoshop exr filters.

Iain

[lonewolf]

#2

[lonewolf]

I think my first job is to desaturate the euclyptus collina a little, bit too fluoro for my liking.
Any ideas?

Iain

[rcallicotte]

Oh.  This looks pretty nice.  Is there any way to create the Photomatix sort of expectation where we see the foreground as well as the background, regardless of the differing contrast?

[domdib]

This is really looking good now. I like both the new versions.

Incidentally, the background mountain - is that a DEM? Looks kind of reminiscent of Scottish mountains.