Misty Morning in the Forest

cyphyr · March 30, 2009, 10:55:39 AM

Well this was inspired by FrankB's post, took 32+ hours to render. You can just about see the rays but they're so soft, almost invisable. The mist is a Cloud layer at camera height with Ray Trace Shadows enabled, this is why it took so long. More of a proof of concept realy but C & C vert welcome.
take care
richard

Mohawk20 · March 30, 2009, 10:58:39 AM

Nice rays. Try increasing exposure and contrast in a next render, maybe that will help...

domdib · March 30, 2009, 10:59:49 AM

Very atmospheric and lush. The ground cover is also v. nice. Where did you get those models?

RArcher · March 30, 2009, 11:09:12 AM

Very nice Richard. I think the problem is that you didn't push your lighting quite far enough. I've taken a few liberties with your image but if you saved the .exr version you will be able to do a much better job than this.

rcallicotte · March 30, 2009, 11:12:05 AM

I like the atmosphere and the foreground tree. Good work. Keep at it until you're satisfied.

cyphyr · March 31, 2009, 06:28:23 AM

Well sometimes it really don't work.

Only three trees, one mist layer render settings as below, any ideas what happened?
D 0.5
AA 6
GI 4/2/8

Richard

FrankB · March 31, 2009, 10:26:45 AM

have you by any chance disabled the atmosphere and surfaces checkbox in the render node?

cyphyr · March 31, 2009, 10:35:08 AM

That was my first thought, but alas no

richard
ps, just noticed that my latest render has been going for over 455 days!!!!
Hmm go figure....

rcallicotte · March 31, 2009, 11:02:08 AM

Days?! Giminy cricket.

FrankB · March 31, 2009, 11:14:30 AM

Quote from: cyphyr on March 31, 2009, 10:35:08 AM
That was my first thought, but alas no

richard
ps, just noticed that my latest render has been going for over 455 days!!!!
Hmm go figure....

If that's not a manipulated screen shot, I'd say there's something really funny going on with your system ;-)
Or maybe it's just because you have entered a wormhole and now you're ahead of time. But then, I wouldn't be able to see your message now. Weird

FrankB · March 31, 2009, 11:16:18 AM

The line in the left bottom corner of the image without the sky and all... looks as if you're under the terrain slightly?

Mohawk20 · March 31, 2009, 11:17:09 AM

That's more than a year non-stop...

cyphyr · March 31, 2009, 11:21:33 AM

Yeah but I only fired it up this morning, hmm starting to think its time for a re-install.
richard

Oshyan · March 31, 2009, 11:49:38 PM

Yes, I'm guessing you're under the terrain...

- Oshyan