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[Viktim]

Hi

this is my second serious render. btw the mist is not done by skills:P  i was just playing around with the cloud settings for like 1h(wich i hate)  when i suddenly got this result

render settings

Detail: 0.8
AA: 3
GI: 2/3

[Henry Blewer]

I have spent months playing with clouds. So far I have fair stratus and good fog. I have been messing with displacements on the terrain also, and much of this will eventually work into clouds.

The image is a really good start. Download some of the shared files, and see what the real masters of T2 have done. You can unplug sections of the nodes which branch into the 'main' pipe. This helps figure out what the parts (nodes) do.

[Viktim]

thank you njeneb. I will check that out, there are many things that i still dont understand and nodes is one of them. I have been watching many good tutorials on youtube(by someone here on the forum, dont know your name but thanks!)

i noticed when i was at my friend that the image is to light on flatscreens. I use a old CRT-screen so it was darker when i made it. So have now uploaded a darker one.

[Henry Blewer]

Back when I was making 3D commercially, I used a crappy television to output to. If i could get the images to look right on that, almost always the image would be great on good tv's or a computer monitor.

[Viktim]

hehe yeah, i also like old tv-monitors for editing images and videos. But since almost everybody got tft screens now i have to suit the image after there screens

[Henry Blewer]

And each tft has differing calibration, contrast ratios, dot pitch.... It makes things harder I think. I know what looks fine on my monitor, FrankB from NWDA says is too dark. WHen I get the levels so he likes them, the image looks horrible on my monitor.