Ranges Wip

RogueNZ · June 24, 2009, 01:01:25 PM

Hi, just a wip. Ive been looking at this for way to long and need a fresh set of eyes for critique. Thanks for viewing

domdib · June 24, 2009, 05:12:19 PM

The mountains seem pretty good, but I think your image is suffering from a lack of a middle ground - there is the dense foliage of the trees, and then the mountains, with nothing clearly visible in between. That makes it difficult to establish a sense of scale. Maybe if you lifted your camera up a bit and angled it down slightly, a midground would come into view. Also, it might help if the snow didn't come right down to where the trees are. Lastly, some clouds would be nice

Henry Blewer · June 24, 2009, 06:17:04 PM

It looks like the foreground trees have enough elevation so water could be used in the middle ground. It would reflect your mountains and look fantastic. I would have the snow layer start higher up the mountains slopes. Some more trees climbing the slopes would help also. I think they should follow the gullies between the mountains shoulder ridges.

RogueNZ · June 25, 2009, 01:44:24 AM

Hi, thanks for the comments. Ive changed it a little by putting in a lake in the foregound and tweaking the models, but im strugling creating a convincing shoreline. Will have another version up hopefully this evening

RogueNZ · June 25, 2009, 09:05:51 PM

Updated, not so happy with the water or trees yet but getting there

Henry Blewer · June 25, 2009, 10:16:10 PM

Try using less displacement and smaller wave size on the water. It will help give more reflection of the background.

RogueNZ · July 14, 2009, 07:57:03 AM

Still going

Henry Blewer · July 14, 2009, 08:24:51 AM

This is much better. If you would like to add some clouds, just render an atmosphere shot. Then you can import it back in using a default shader for the background. I do this to make the test renders faster, since they do not have to render the cloud layers every time.

domdib · July 14, 2009, 08:30:04 AM

This is now looking very nice. It just shows the value in persisting with a scene, something I learned with the recent NWDA contest. The lighting is good, and the trees and water, and the shoreline displacements are great. Apart from adding clouds, (nice tip from njeneb) if I had one suggestion it would be to slightly shift the POV. This looks as if it's being taken from a boat. How about another camera on the far shore?

Phylloxera · July 14, 2009, 11:55:04 AM

Quote from: SpacemanNZ on July 14, 2009, 07:57:03 AM
Still going

This one is better !

RogueNZ · July 14, 2009, 10:23:57 PM

Thanks for your comments

Unfortunately the way i have displaced the terrain to get my lake means that there is now no shoreline behind me

So i cant do that type of POV, which i agree would work well. I am also pretty bad at doing clouds and i notice a lot of nice images from other people here get away with not having any. But i am giving them a go to see what happens but i cant make ay promises

Another small update:

MacGyver · July 15, 2009, 02:54:51 AM

You have changed water reflectivity, have you? Or is it something else? It definitely gives a nice touch to the image!

domdib · July 15, 2009, 05:08:35 AM

If you are concerned about your cloud quality, there are a lot of good samples in the cloud library in the File Sharing section. Or if you're prepared to spend just a few dollars, NWDA sell some great clouds.