Walli's Field

RArcher · August 29, 2009, 04:56:00 PM

Thanks for the comments everyone! I really think Walli deserves most of the credit.

Henry Blewer · August 29, 2009, 06:33:28 PM

Walli's plants are great! But you really proved it.

choronr · August 30, 2009, 01:31:36 AM

For a moment, I thought I heard some bees. The realism here is striking!

al91 · September 01, 2009, 07:31:08 AM

how do you make it look so good and realistic? when i use walli's plants, it looks quite artificial after rendering

Henry Blewer · September 01, 2009, 08:10:42 AM

There are lots of settings. The atmosphere sample is one of them. 64 works well most of the time. I use 128 for the samples. This is high for the value. On the render tab, set the quality to 0.9+/-. The AA samples about 6. I use Ambient Occlusion in the lighting tab. Change it from Global Illumination. I think the plants had their leaf translucency changed slightly higher. It helps soften the plant leaves so they look more realistic. I've noticed many of the people who make the plants do not set this. It is lighting dependent. The lighting is also very important. I make it harder on myself by using low to the horizon lighting (too often?).

otakar · September 01, 2009, 11:56:44 AM

I think I'll just start posting my works (only they will be photos). Nobody can tell.

Seriously, the time will come soon where you'll need proof that what you posted is not a photo.

Fantastic job again, Ryan.

Oshyan · September 01, 2009, 10:34:24 PM

Disclosure: I reckon Ryan is also using the new rendering mode for objects, which might be helping.

- Oshyan

Henry Blewer · September 02, 2009, 08:05:49 AM

New rendering mode for objects? Do I feel a new release coming? Is there now a 64 bit version? I'll be staying tuned.

Gannaingh · September 02, 2009, 03:52:56 PM

New rendering mode? Oshyan, you know how to get people's attention!

cyphyr · September 02, 2009, 04:12:12 PM

Extremely cool

I like the chromatic aberration, is that done manually (splitting channels, sphereizs ... etc), via a plugin, or via the "new rendering node ..." ??

Richard

Zairyn Arsyn · September 02, 2009, 04:24:18 PM

Quote from: Oshyan on September 01, 2009, 10:34:24 PM
Disclosure: I reckon Ryan is also using the new rendering mode for objects, which might be helping.

- Oshyan

well, whatever it is, Its giving me goosebumps.

RArcher · September 02, 2009, 04:39:40 PM

Richard, the chromatic aberration was added in Adobe Lightroom, though I am sure there are probably plugins available for gimp or photoshop.

Oshyan · September 03, 2009, 02:50:43 AM

64 bit is still a little ways off. Lots of work and all.

But the "new rendering mode" does bring some improvements you will likely benefit from, at least if you render objects. More details to come, and no release date yet, but Matt already mentioned it in another thread (where it got surprisingly little response), so I thought I'd do so again since the results are so nice here and I think people are wondering what might be giving some of these recent images an edge in quality and realism.

- Oshyan

Dune · September 03, 2009, 03:07:29 AM

I was one who did reply to your mentioning this in the other thread, Oshyan, but I'll do it again to generate some response. So here it is; great feature, looking forward to the update!!

---Dune

littlecannon · September 03, 2009, 08:33:06 AM

New rendering for objects..... Didn't I say anything? Damn I want it now.

But if there is no release date, we can't get that excited yet.