At the Park

RArcher · January 11, 2010, 09:29:51 PM

Here is a simple scene of a park using the upcoming Sugar Maple tree from Marc Gebhart. He was kind enough to let me take it for a pre-release spin.

Other vegetation includes:

pink xfrog tree
Walli's grasses and Mouse-ear weed.

Henry Blewer · January 11, 2010, 10:04:51 PM

It's a very beautiful render Ryan. I have been testing out Marc's Sugar Maples also. I have a render just starting, but I doubt it will look this nice. It's more to 'kick the tires', but I hope it comes out well.
I am rendering with AA 10, 1280 x 720, detail 0.9. What settings did you use?

RArcher · January 11, 2010, 10:12:54 PM

I should have added that info as well.

1600 x 1200
Detail 0.8
AA: 6
GI 2/4

Henry Blewer · January 11, 2010, 11:03:16 PM

I would not have thought your AA setting was so low. It works well!

old_blaggard · January 11, 2010, 11:59:58 PM

Very nice work, Ryan!

I would love for you to do a little tutorial sometime about how you get your lighting looking so good, both generally on the surfaces and through the leaves of the trees.

Oshyan · January 12, 2010, 12:06:59 AM

Nice image. Tree is looking good!

njeneb, with Raytraced Objects lower AA works much better than it used to...

- Oshyan

Gannaingh · January 12, 2010, 12:34:42 AM

Beautiful as always!

EoinArmstrong · January 12, 2010, 03:02:39 AM

Lovely mood and superb lighting - I wish it was like that over here right now

inkydigit · January 12, 2010, 04:51:58 AM

I can smell the springtime here...very, very nice!

FrankB · January 12, 2010, 04:53:31 AM

ah, summer dreaming.....

Very pleasant. Would love to draw my picknick blanket and sit under these trees for a bit, taking a nap perhaps

Cheers,
Frank

Henry Blewer · January 12, 2010, 08:08:19 AM

I know that the AA is much better now, but here I think a big difference really comes from the lighting. I am rendering a scene using these Sugar Maples Marc made. They look fantastic. I was getting render errors with the translucency setting Marc had. I deleted the translucent node, and they are rendering correctly.
I set the AA to 10, and the edges are sharper than Ryan's, but the 'whole' image Ryan did looks better than my render. Anyway, it should be done Wednesday. It might be good to compare the two images. Maybe both of us can write up a quick tutorial about our methods. I know Ryan could teach me quite a few things. Maybe someone could learn from me also.

domdib · January 12, 2010, 08:10:59 AM

The grasses look incredibly soft - how did you do that?

Tangled-Universe · January 12, 2010, 08:53:21 AM

Beautiful image Ryan, thanks

I like the translucent leaves on the upper left a lot, great touch!

Martin

choronr · January 12, 2010, 01:25:51 PM

A premonition of the coming spring ...outstanding Ryan!

Oshyan · January 12, 2010, 10:34:27 PM

Quote from: njeneb on January 12, 2010, 08:08:19 AM
I know that the AA is much better now, but here I think a big difference really comes from the lighting. I am rendering a scene using these Sugar Maples Marc made. They look fantastic. I was getting render errors with the translucency setting Marc had. I deleted the translucent node, and they are rendering correctly.
I set the AA to 10, and the edges are sharper than Ryan's, but the 'whole' image Ryan did looks better than my render. Anyway, it should be done Wednesday. It might be good to compare the two images. Maybe both of us can write up a quick tutorial about our methods. I know Ryan could teach me quite a few things. Maybe someone could learn from me also.

Interesting. The other thing to keep in mind of course is the Pixel/AA filter. That can make a huge difference.

- Oshyan