Hi,
Just testing out Path Tracing.
Also looking for a good grass clump. If anyone know where
I could get one, please let me know ;)
- Terje
Nice color scheme and scene as a whole. I like it very much.
Mr. Lamppost has released grasses a long time ago, Walli has too, and I have some (free) at NWDA. Searching the forum may help you find them.
Quote from: Dune on October 21, 2018, 01:59:11 AM
Nice color scheme and scene as a whole. I like it very much.
Mr. Lamppost has released grasses a long time ago, Walli has too, and I have some (free) at NWDA. Searching the forum may help you find them.
I find Ulco's (Dune) single grasses to be incredibly versatile, but due take awhile to populate. His clumps are very nice as well.
The grass you have in this project looks rather nice, very soft and "rolling". The ground texture in the right with the grass particularly draws my attention. It's nice.
Very nice render! Smooth and peaceful ambience.
Quote from: WASasquatch on October 21, 2018, 03:31:06 AM
Quote from: Dune on October 21, 2018, 01:59:11 AM
Nice color scheme and scene as a whole. I like it very much.
Mr. Lamppost has released grasses a long time ago, Walli has too, and I have some (free) at NWDA. Searching the forum may help you find them.
I find Ulco's (Dune) single grasses to be incredibly versatile, but due take awhile to populate. His clumps are very nice as well.
The grass you have in this project looks rather nice, very soft and "rolling". The ground texture in the right with the grass particularly draws my attention. It's nice.
The problem with this grass clump, is that it consist of maybe 3 single grass strands.
I have to make billions of instances :'(
- Terje
Very nice mood here! 8)
Quote from: sjefen on October 20, 2018, 06:58:22 PM
Hi,
Just testing out Path Tracing.
Also looking for a good grass clump. If anyone know where
I could get one, please let me know ;)
- Terje
Have you tried Dune's free grasses at NWDA?
http://www.nwdastore.com/
Lovely image! :)
I put a link in File Sharing for Mr. Lampost's grass and bush packs, tgo for use with Terragen.
https://planetside.co.uk/forums/index.php/topic,25831.msg256282.html#msg256282
I've reworked the scene a little.
Changed the lighting, changed distribution on some of the vegetation and added some more.
Hope you like it.
- Terje
I prefer the first iteration. Trees take up too much attention now, spoiling the serene mood.
You can also use the internal grass for a bit more distant than close-up. Decrease width of the stems (object x and Z at 50%), and if very slopey terrain, decrease patch from 10m to maybe 5, and use rotation, after a final compute normal between last node and pop.
Seems that I have a bit different taste: I prefer the new version.
What bothers me a little are the big rocks. They look too smooth and streched.
What I fell in love with at first sight were the snowy peaks at the horizon.
Perhaps the view could be also more interesting for Ulco if you add a kind of inconspicuous but visible story in the middle where the grass appears pure and naked?
Quote from: sjefen on October 21, 2018, 06:04:06 PM
I've reworked the scene a little.
Changed the lighting, changed distribution on some of the vegetation and added some more.
Hope you like it.
- Terje
WOW! This is fantastic! Love the update, I mean, I can literally see Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey marching out of the woods on their quest to return her in a new updated remake. Lol
Yeah, that's what the lighting and scene reminded me of. I hope that's not an insult. :O
Quote from: WASasquatch on October 22, 2018, 05:15:15 PM
Quote from: sjefen on October 21, 2018, 06:04:06 PM
I've reworked the scene a little.
Changed the lighting, changed distribution on some of the vegetation and added some more.
Hope you like it.
- Terje
WOW! This is fantastic! Love the update, I mean, I can literally see Shrek, Fiona, and Donkey marching out of the woods on their quest to return her in a new updated remake. Lol
Yeah, that's what the lighting and scene reminded me of. I hope that's not an insult. :O
Hahaha!
I'll take it as a compliment :)
Another update...
- Terje
I like this version very much.
But now you are under pressure: what about a donkey or an ogre in the middle? ;)
Great updates! I love the forefront right especially. Very nice!
Lighting is great in this, very natural. :)
Nice set of renders, the light is soo nice
Beautiful render. The lighting is fantastic!
Certainly better in several ways. The sky/clouds are excellent, and the new more broken up grass is better too. I do find that distant rock doesn't hold up to the improved lighting though. I think it's a scan/photogrammetry, right? Or at least a photo texture?
- Oshyan
Quote from: Oshyan on October 24, 2018, 04:07:35 PM
Certainly better in several ways. The sky/clouds are excellent, and the new more broken up grass is better too. I do find that distant rock doesn't hold up to the improved lighting though. I think it's a scan/photogrammetry, right? Or at least a photo texture?
- Oshyan
It's a rock object, but yes, it has a photo as texture.
I have changed it. Update is coming ;)
Perhaps some low level surface detail to breakup the smoothing of both the texture and displacement may make it blend more with the environment.
Quote from: WASasquatch on October 24, 2018, 08:32:48 PM
Perhaps some low level surface detail to breakup the smoothing of both the texture and displacement may make it blend more with the environment.
I'll fix that as well.
They are all good but I think The second version is superb - great mood.
Update...
This is even better now!
Oh very nice, I liked the atmo in original too. Love your split rock formation near the water left side. :)
Oh my, yes. I think you may have achieved that magical balance of the various previous versions. A nice subtly lit foreground with more to discover for the eye if attention is paid, that lovely lit-up mountain in the background, and an honestly just pure photo-realistic sky. I love it! (copied from Facebook :D )
- Oshyan
This is a nice update everything is coming together. I love the addition of the little pond/stream.
Though I have one concern, why are those bushes internal shadows so soft compared to the scene? I feel they should have richer internal shadowing, especially with PT. Perhaps the opacity has been adjusted a little too much?
I also agree with Oshyan about the sky. While simplistic, it's superbly realistic, especially for the evening/morning setting you're capturing. Well done.
Thanks guys :)
I agree about those bushes. I'll have a look to see if there is something I can do, but right now my computer is gonna be busy for a long time. I'm trying to render this scene 7000 pixels in with for potential print.
This is also the first scene I've done to really try and test my new pc that I bought this summer.
- Terje
You may have talked about it elsewhere already, but what are the specs of the new machine? :)
- Oshyan
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X Prosessor
Gainward GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (not the best, but I had to save money somewhere)
Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 16GB X 2 (also not the best, but it was starting to hurt my bank account)
Guess the other stuff isn't that important, or?
Is there anywhere I could find the polycount in TG btw?
The last render is a gem, love the lighting!
Thoroughly agree with TU - and it's explicitly detailed!
Thank you guys :)
So many nice comments and also thanks to all that gave me some very constructive feedback.
I'm not completely finished with this scene. I have something more I wanna add and something I wanna improve, but I hope you guys will continue to give awesome feedback so I can improve on my skills.
The community here is so bloody awesome!
- Terje
There is no overall poly count indicator, but if you run tgdcli.exe instead of tgd.exe (in the Terragen application folder) you'll get a window that shows a running log of everything Terragen is doing. When you do a render you should see a line of poly count for each object or population. You'd have to add them up manually. And then there's the micropoly indicator on the render window, which only applies to the terrain when Ray Trace Objects is enabled (as it should be).
- Oshyan
Alright. Would be cool to have a poly count in the future :)
Anyway. Had a problem with a render. I don't know when it happened, but when I
looked at the screen it was telling me it had been running for almost 21 hours, but I noticed
the rendering was continuing and decided to let it be and see what it did.
When I came back from work today it was at about 35 hours and I could hear that my computer
wasn't doing anything anymore, but the timer told me it was still rendering. I noticed an error in the
image (the one that I've marked) and I'm pretty sure this would have kept rendering forever.
When I tried to stop the render it crashed :'(
- Terje
Hmm, strange. Let us know if it happens again. Did you make any changes to the scene that you think would have affected that part of it and made it different from past renders of the scene?
- Oshyan
No changes on that part of the scene.
But I'm trying again. I'll let you know if the same thing happens and if it's at the same place
Well, it worked now. Rendered in 7000 X 3500 in just over 19H
I don't think that's to bad. This scene has a lot of stuff in it.
Anyway.... I think I'm done with this one. The colors are a little bit different, but I hope it's alright.
Let me know if not.
- Terje
Beautiful again! Loads in a blink for me. Nice rock! :)
Quote from: luvsmuzik on October 28, 2018, 09:55:41 AM
Beautiful again! Loads in a blink for me. Nice rock! :)
Well... I've chosen to resize this one, so it's only 3000 X 1500 ;)
- Terje
Superb.
Hm, I do prefer the colors in the old one actually. But otherwise it's great. :)
- Oshyan
Quote from: Oshyan on October 28, 2018, 05:11:58 PM
Hm, I do prefer the colors in the old one actually. But otherwise it's great. :)
- Oshyan
This is the closest I got the old one :)
- Terje
Very close, you got the colors right and that's what counts! Thanks for posting that alternate version. :D
- Oshyan
I prefer the latter version too, very subtle.
This is so nice. Beautiful work.
I like both versions depending on my mood. Looks a bit like same foto taken with different cameras. At the moment 02d is my favorite :)
I think this is the final version.
Added another cloud layer and also some fog on the ground and between the trees.
It's also been brightened a little bit cause I was doing a print test and that was
way to dark in the shadows. Almost all the details in the shadows where lost.
- Terje
Wow love the addition of the fog. Makes it look like a chilly early morning.
Quote from: WASasquatch on November 11, 2018, 02:03:55 PM
Wow love the addition of the fog. Makes it look like a chilly early morning.
Thanks. That was my intention :)
- Terje
Love this! Really effective fog layer, very convincing! :)
Definitely top 5 render from the past year for me.
Stunning piece, Sjefen! Copied it to my favorites folder.
Thank you guys ;)
- Terje
Very nice render.
This is a very nice scene, I like the last one with the mist particularly.
David
Stunning. Don't change anything now.
Great final! :)
Agree w WASasquatch...this is a super piece...well done, Tangled-Universe as well....your best yet.
Thanks a lot guys :)
- Terje