Halloween (maybe) -- FINAL RENDER ON 4th PAGE

MacGyver · September 24, 2009, 12:43:26 PM

Quote from: cyphyr on September 24, 2009, 10:55:12 AM
Quote from: njeneb on September 24, 2009, 10:50:22 AM
Why not cheat? An old volumetric light fake was to extrude the part which was supposed to be light beams. Make them single sided, add transparency, and give them a luminous texture with a fractal fade towards the camera.
That would work perfectly, and be fairly fast, were it not for one small detail ... Terragen cant do proper transparency
Richard

What? Why not? I remember back in the ancient days of TG2 water wasn't transparent but what is it doing now?

cyphyr · September 24, 2009, 12:54:41 PM

I was wondering if you could fake it with a water shader but I think you'd run into a stack of other problems. Try it and post your results, it would certainly be a useful trick if you could get it to work ...

Richard

typerextreme · September 24, 2009, 04:51:18 PM

Ok wow

, i just got home from school. I can live with the grain i suppose. Here is the overall image, it took 4 hours for my comp to render it.

I haven't even tried what you all said, and quite frankly i understand about.....none of it lol. I guess I'll just leave the grain, i'm pondering the idea of moving the pumpkin behind the tree, or just further to the left.

typerextreme · September 26, 2009, 12:45:50 PM

Ok I decided to move the pumpkin and rotate it towards the tree. It's still rendering. I also decided to drop the atmosphere and fog samples to 48. I'm not gonna be able to remove the grain, but I don't want the render to take forever either, so I'll just deal with it.

Henry Blewer · September 26, 2009, 01:48:51 PM

I like the idea of the jack o'lantern illuminating the tree.

cyphyr · September 26, 2009, 01:50:29 PM

I'd move the moon behind the tree (or the tree in-front of the moon)

Richard

typerextreme · September 26, 2009, 03:14:57 PM

Quote from: njeneb on September 26, 2009, 01:48:51 PM
I like the idea of the jack o'lantern illuminating the tree.

Thanks, it's rendering, but being reeeal slow about it. I'm wondering if it's gonna take longer to render this than it did last time. And it hasn't even made it through the top third of the image in an hour, where before it took 30-45 minutes And I have even dropped the overall quality to 0.5. Which shocks me, and i've left the computer alone the whole time until just now when I paused it to check this. Even had tgd.exe set to high priority. So idk, for some reason it slowed down.

Quote from: cyphyr on September 26, 2009, 01:50:29 PM
I'd move the moon behind the tree (or the tree in-front of the moon)

Richard

I'll see about moving it, although it might be another day. At the rate it's going now, I don't expect it to be finished for another 4-5 hours.

typerextreme · September 26, 2009, 09:22:30 PM

Hmmm. ok so I didn't move it back as far as I thought.

Changes made from previous image

Overall quality set to 0.5
Atmosphere samples set to 48.
Fog samples set to 48.
Jack-o-lantern was repositioned.

I'm probably going to move it back further so it lights up the tree more.

typerextreme · September 27, 2009, 08:26:37 AM

I did another render overnight, here are the changes from the image above.

Atmosphere samples and fog samples are now 24.
Pumpkin has been rotated 35 degrees clockwise from last image and repositioned.

I'm not sure which I like better, this one or the one above.

typerextreme · September 29, 2009, 05:41:35 PM

I believe thats the final render for this scene.

Henry Blewer · September 29, 2009, 06:51:37 PM

It works. The grain has smoothed out. Happy Halloween!

typerextreme · September 29, 2009, 06:56:28 PM

Quote from: njeneb on September 29, 2009, 06:51:37 PM
It works. The grain has smoothed out. Happy Halloween!

Yep, somehow I was able to decrease the samples and it came out better. Guess the positioning and angle helped there.