Hello all,
I'm a very new user of Terragen but have been following its progress for the last few years :D. I'd like share an image created with a Terragen back plate and also HDRI rendered in Terragen. Final render done in 3ds max with Vray. Comp'd in Photoshop.
Any constructive crit much welcome :)
thank you.
Wonderful cloudscape Henry. Creating clouds is my favorite part of a job and I definitely dig those. Welcome to our community!
Welcome indeed. And with such wonderful render. Good to have you onboard. No crits from me, great job!
Nice work and welcome :)
Beautiful layered cloud scape, great first post :)
Great image!!! And welcome from me as well!
Very nice indeed, well done
Agree w/previous comments completely and add, lovely jet model...yours?
Welcome! Great clouds. The whole render is a well done.
Welcome here :)
In fact a wonderful render. I especially like the clouds! Great job!
Just a bit too much noise in one of the cloud layers in my opinion, but otherwise I don't think anyone would say it is not a photograph unless you told them. In other words, great work! :)
- Oshyan
Quote from: Oshyan on January 04, 2019, 08:10:00 PM
Just a bit too much noise in one of the cloud layers in my opinion, but otherwise I don't think anyone would say it is not a photograph unless you told them. In other words, great work! :)
- Oshyan
What a wonderfully supportive group here! thank you for all warm welcomes!.
Oshyan, totally agree on the noise on the clouds! Will have to look at ways to smooth that out.
I don't suppose a form of distributed rendering is around the corner? ;) From last check, I think this image took around 13 hours. This is obviously without any optimisation! Much to learn here.
Can't add anything – agree on all counts. Beautiful work and welcome!
We do not have current plans to implement a distributed rendering approach. You can manually create multiple slightly overlapping crop zones for really heavy renders, or your render manager may support such functions more automatically. You can also use render farms like PixelPlow which have systems that can distribute higher resolution renders across multiple systems and stitch the end results.
Without knowing your hardware (and settings) it's hard to know if 13h is longer than normal for this render, but it does sound a bit long to me. We are always happy to take a look at projects for possible optimization of render settings, and to make recommendations for that. You can send files privately for this to support AT planetside.co.uk if desired.
- Oshyan
13 hours was for a 6000 X 4000. dual Hexcore 3.06ghz each. settings AA 4, micro detail at .6 Everything else on default i think.
Depending on how many cloud layers you have that doesn't sound too crazy at that resolution.
- Oshyan
The focal cloud layer seems a bit fuzzy; maybe the quality tab settings were knocked (I see Oshyan already noted this. Sorry trying to play catch up on topics active), but in general I washed pretty shocked by the amount of detail here. The shapes all work with each other and there is even a level of illusion with direction between layers.
Quote from: hlam on January 06, 2019, 05:30:01 PM
13 hours was for a 6000 X 4000. dual Hexcore 3.06ghz each. settings AA 4, micro detail at .6 Everything else on default i think.
Sounds a bit slow for a dual hexa... But your clouds can slow it down for sure. Depend on the quality of them...
Nice photo!
Great render indeed!
just a quick update. I'm having lots of fun/frustration with trying to make those ultra red sunsets you sometimes see. Would anyone know what mainly controls that lovely deep purple + red tones? I've experimented with sun colour, but everything looks a bit fake.
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(https://c.tadst.com/gfx/750x500/barcelona-morning-sky.jpg?1)
Great work and welcome from me too :D
Under Atmo check the Min tab and the Tweaks tab. There you can modify the colors.
Quote from: archonforest on February 11, 2019, 05:08:33 AM
Under Atmo check the Min tab and the Tweaks tab. There you can modify the colors.
wow, thanks for that! i'll give it a shot. :)
Redsky Decay strength and/or color. But keep in mind these effects can be very strong with only small changes to the values, so take it slowly. :D I would switch to RTP mode in the 3D preview and make adjustments and see how it affects things in realtime.
- Oshyan