Another jungle flyover

[Hannes]

...seems to be my favourite motive  
This one took really long to render. All in all approx. 90 hours. There are hundreds of thousands of trees and the cloud layer representing the mist has ray trace shadows on. I used high GI settings (4/4) to get the indirect lighting of the plants in the shadow right.
Btw, I had to render this in more than eight crops, because I got a lot of "error in a render thread" messages.

Hope you like it.

[MacGyver]

Now that was a long render... but considering the high settings that was quite fast
I missed a plane quite a bit though
Is this the original render size?

[Hannes]

I miss a plane too!!

The original render size was 2000X875 px

[inkydigit]

lovely....I must try one of these aerial shots!
cheers
J

[Kevin F]

Lovely image. You need lots of patience though. How much difference would not having ray traced shadows on have made, I wonder.

[Hannes]

The mist would not receive shadows by the terrain.

[Henry Blewer]

This is a great looking image. I like the terrain and the plants look great in it.

[Kevin F]

The mist would not receive shadows by the terrain.

yeah I know, I meant in terms of render times.

[Malcolm79]

Great work! Well done. My own render-record was 120 hours. But it was not TG2. it was Bryce 5.5

[Hannes]

@Kevin: I rendered a small crop of the image with RT on and then with RT off. It took 5:48 min with RT on, and 5:37 min with RT off, so it's not that much difference, but I left out the trees for this test. I think the difference would be bigger with more detailed geometry casting shadows.

[aymenk2003]

Hi ...one minute Hannes...Let me put myself in a discussion rail...
Is it a TG2 render ?? or a real photo ??
I m really confused ...

N.KAID

[Kadri]

Hannes this is a nice image.
Are there any luminosity on the trees? Especially the trees on the left below and in the shadows.

I think with a little more variation in green on the trees it would look like a photo.

Kadri.

[Hannes]

No, there is no luminosity, only a little bit of translucency on the leaves. I know what you mean, the trees look a little bit flat, but also without translucency it doesn't look correct.
There are two kinds of broadleaf trees and two kinds of palmtrees, each with slightly different colours. I know, there could be even more variation, but I'll probably won't rerender the whole thing. Maybe I'll do some test renders.

[Kadri]

But i would really like to see a new one Hannes. This is really a good image (even if you don't render a new one)

Kadri.

[ra]

I like that image, could be a scene of Indiana Jones IV. Great work!