Colorful Sunset - Large (WAS: POC multi color sunset)

[FrankB]

Hi,

I saw this photo posted in the "new tutorials in the wiki" thread. It reminded me of one of the presets I made for the "Sunset Pack II" (yes, indeed it's coming).
This is just a POC, a quick doodle, but with some work on the cloud shapes I think it's easy to have this resemble the photo.

Regards,
Frank

[inkydigit]

looking very promising!

[FrankB]

too bad.... an improved version (high res, high quality) just died with a lot of error messages     

[rcallicotte]

Bucket render errors again.  Hmmm.  Maybe something was re-introduced, after all of the load of fixes Matt and Jo put into it.

Looks like it will be a real charming sunset, nevertheless.

[Tangled-Universe]

Ah damn, that's a pity Frank.
Really loved the first sunset. Great variation in colors and very nice cloudshapes there.

Hopefully you'll be able to get this one rendered as well.
Seems a bit like the latest fashion around here: crashing renders

Martin

[Sen]

Wow you really got the colours of the original photo. Perfect sky imo.

[Oshyan]

Looking nice Frank, shame about the crash. What resolution and what was memory use?

- Oshyan

[Luminos]

Nice pic Frank, That tree on the horizontal looks like it desperatly trying to stay in the pic 
That or its trying to weasel its way into the pic
The Cloud Colours are excellent

[FrankB]

Looking nice Frank, shame about the crash. What resolution and what was memory use?

- Oshyan

I have sent the scene file to Matt. It reliably throws errors after the first minute of rendering, when you crop render the bottom half, so it's probably good for trouble shooting.
The memory consumption for the bottom half goes up to close to 3gb (why?), but that's not the problem, I think (got 8gb in the system, and still 1 gb to go for the 32bit limit).

Cheers,
Frank

[Tangled-Universe]

What are your render-settings Frank?
To the eye you seem to have 2 populations and I assume they're at highest detail setting, but then it surprises me (as well) this needs 3GB RAM to render. What do you think?

Martin

[FrankB]

What are your render-settings Frank?
To the eye you seem to have 2 populations and I assume they're at highest detail setting, but then it surprises me (as well) this needs 3GB RAM to render. What do you think?

Martin

Standard scene, I would say, from the render settings nothing unusual. Quality was 0.95, resolution 1680x1050, GI 2/2. Indeed, two populations (just a couple of thousand instances)... I pretty certain that is not the point. The one thing that IS unsusual is the 4 cloud layers over a lake object. There will be huge amount of rays shooting about.

Later on, I rendered the scene without objects, quality 0.85 and resolution 1600x1000, but it eventually crashed again. Tried with and without pre-allocated cache, small and large - to no avail.
I think there's no point in us guessing any further. There must be a little bug somewhere. I'm sure Matt will fix this sometime soon. It seems to me that these problems are more common with many users at the moment (think about yourself for example), so I hope this will be given some priority.

Frank

[FrankB]

Got this rendered without errors, now that I too have reduced the render cache a lot. Still the scene used 3.1 GB memory, but rendered fine.
Didn't do much with it other than some level correction.
I should probably crop away some more of the ground (as it's barren apart from the trees). Anyway, hope you like it.

Regards,
Frank

[Tangled-Universe]

Great lighting on the clouds Frank, love it. How many cloudlayers are there in total?
It's indeed better to crop some of the bottom, but I'd leave in some water.

Martin

[FrankB]

Great lighting on the clouds Frank, love it. How many cloudlayers are there in total?

guess :-)

[Tangled-Universe]

I think I can distinguish 3, but it could well be 4 layers.
On the other hand, knowing you, it could also be just 1
My best guess is 3.

How well did I? Do I pass for the next round, for the refrigerator? (like we say in The Netherlands)