Greely Pond

[Henry Blewer]

Just an old pasture which is becoming overgrown.

1024 x 480, detail 0.9, AA 6, GI settings at 3, supersample prepass, and GI surface details. Render time 9 hours.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2661/3970022661_399d07d3c9_o.jpg

[Tangled-Universe]

I don't know how long you work on your scenes and if you move on quickly to something else, but if you want to keep on working on this one I might have a few suggestions (any way)

The soil could use some more detail and color as well as some little stones.
One thing which also caught my attention is that in most of your renders I have the idea that you don't use size-variation in your populations? Is that correct? The grasses look all the same size, it would be nice to see smaller ones. Normally I use size variations in a 1:2 to 1:3 ratio.

Martin

[Henry Blewer]

Actually the grasses are different sizes. I think I scaled them at 2 and 4. I was thinking about adding 'wheat' to them for dry grasses; scaled much larger. I do want to make the size variation of Walli's ferns larger. I also am not too happy with the walnut (white bark) trees, I think the leaves need more transparency.

[Henry Blewer]

Here is a test render of Greely Pond. It was rendered at 0.5 detail, with low atmosphere settings.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/3971896580_75ec68e26f_o.jpg

[Henry Blewer]

I just came back from work. I was rendering this scene again with Ryan's suggestions. I think I need more memory, the computer was frozen up. The event log said 'stack overflow' and that the swap file size was exceeded. I was rendering at 1680 x 1008, detail 0.9, GI detail 2, GI samples 4, AA 7, using one thread. I have 2 gigs of ram...
Windows Defender had an update. It usually does a scan right after updating. (Annoying program!) Maybe Defender had something to do with it?...  

[Henry Blewer]

I've dropped the terrain in this one. I'm using a new terrain called 'somewhere' now. I am working on object distribution using masks. This terrain was too flat.