Snowy mountain

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 03:54:08 PM

I feel like theres something missing or wrong with this image. I can't quite place my finger on the problem though. I'm attaching two versions. I have a feeling that the problem lies in the snow. If you would like the tgd i can attach it. The fir is the free model from Xfrog.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 03:56:21 PM

Second image

Kadri · October 18, 2009, 04:02:35 PM

You have a scale problem with the trees.They are too big.
There are maybe other problems too but one at a time

Are this mountains realy big ones or little ones in your mind?

Cheers.

Kadri.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 04:30:04 PM

Quote from: Kadri on October 18, 2009, 04:02:35 PM
Are this mountains realy big ones or little ones in your mind?

Big ones i thought.

dandelO · October 18, 2009, 04:38:10 PM

I'd say the trees need to be scaled at least to 1/6th, even 1/8th of their size now to make it seem more realistic. You'll need to make the object spacing very much smaller.

The first one is nice, the sky looks good. I'm not sure about the green tint in No.2.

Kadri · October 18, 2009, 04:40:08 PM

İ would try with at least 10 times smaller trees..and see what it looks like.
Maybe more or fewer would do it.

Edit : DandelO

Kadri.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 04:57:04 PM

Quote from: dandelO on October 18, 2009, 04:38:10 PM
I'd say the trees need to be scaled at least to 1/6th, even 1/8th of their size now to make it seem more realistic. You'll need to make the object spacing very much smaller.

The first one is nice, the sky looks good. I'm not sure about the green tint in No.2.

No.2 was supposed to have a blue tint to it, but i wasnt sure about it myself.

I'll see what i can do about the scale.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 06:10:44 PM

Alright, i believe i need to lower the scale even more, but I'll show y'all what i've got for scale. The trees are all one population, the varying scales were acheived just letting the populator vary the scales with minimum 0.5 and maximum 2.5.

Henry Blewer · October 18, 2009, 08:33:39 PM

That's much better. Good start.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 08:57:30 PM

yeah now its at about 1 million instances populated and only 21% populated. So it'll probably be an overnight render. But i reduced the object spacing again.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 09:08:58 PM

I wish I could figure out how to get snow on the trees themselves, but everything I tried never seemed to give me results.

Henry Blewer · October 18, 2009, 10:00:40 PM

Calico came up with the method. Here's the link.

http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=7546.msg80462#msg80462

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 10:27:43 PM

i'm trying the method out. hopefully the d*** thing will plant the trees sometime between now and 10 hours from now so it might have a chance of finishing the render before I get home from school lol.

Kadri · October 18, 2009, 10:33:50 PM

İ haven't done this myself but if there are too many trees you may have render errors and such later.
I think try to restrict the trees to the camera...İf this is the problem of course.
In general if you won't see the trees outside the render border there is no need to populate it. And your render will end sooner.

Kadri.

typerextreme · October 18, 2009, 10:36:56 PM

yeah its probably a little wider than my render area, but its actually not quite as long as the render area, but it shouldn't be too bad, its just a little bit shorter. at least it's not taking an hour to populate 20%.