Storm on the way.

[MGebhart]

I thought I would create a simple scene and render it at a high res to see how long it takes on my box.

6 min to setup the scene
2 tree populations
1440X900
9559089 micro Tris
Time to Render:21:23:03

http://web.me.com/marcgebhart1/New_Site_Under_Constuction/Storm.html

The link is to the large image.

[Henry Blewer]

Good start. Try increasing the cloud edges sample and the quality. Not too much with the cloud samples. Storm clouds seem to be a little 'loose'.

[pfrancke]

I like the terrain and how you got the extra dark and gloomy area - just like you see when a storm is ahead.  The image is already really good - I hope you keep working on this one to see what you can make out of it.  The image deserves it!

[MGebhart]

This is an update deploying the suggestions from njeneb. Thank you sir.

I also changed the light direction and azimuth.

Thank you pfrancke for your kind words,

Marc

[Henry Blewer]

That's the ticket.  Looks great.

[littlecannon]

Looks really nice... My one suggestion is to make the trees smaller and more tightly spaced. It would give it a much grander scale.
Cheers,
Simon.

[MGebhart]

Simon,

Good observation. I'll get on it ASAP.

Thank you,

Marc