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Title: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: bobbystahr on July 06, 2018, 12:30:10 PM
...which I'd never used so that's done now hee hee hee C&C welcome as always.
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: Dune on July 07, 2018, 01:53:39 AM
Nice setup. The light is cool. It needs some contrasting thing somewhere, some bright blue or yellow flowers (just a few patches), or a rock, or a pop of mosquitos lighting up in the low sun. Leaf areas are pretty dark, have you tried lowering the leaf opacity to 0.6 or so?
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: DocCharly65 on July 07, 2018, 03:40:18 AM
Oh yes - this has big potential! Big like to motivate you to go on with it  :)
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: Kadri on July 07, 2018, 09:15:02 AM

Yes there is much potential in this image. More tones of green would be good too i think.
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: Agura Nata on July 07, 2018, 10:39:17 AM
Quote from: Kadri on July 07, 2018, 09:15:02 AM

Yes there is much potential in this image. More tones of green would be good too i think.

Yes :)
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: bobbystahr on July 07, 2018, 12:12:19 PM
Quote from: Dune on July 07, 2018, 01:53:39 AM
Nice setup. The light is cool. It needs some contrasting thing somewhere, some bright blue or yellow flowers (just a few patches), or a rock, or a pop of mosquitos lighting up in the low sun. Leaf areas are pretty dark, have you tried lowering the leaf opacity to 0.6 or so?

Actually I considered the opacity trick but forgot...low render times so I'll add that to the tweaks...cosmos and dandilions are also in the projected tweaks...I was just groovin' on the lush green-ness of it all on this render.
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....revised and fixed
Post by: bobbystahr on July 07, 2018, 05:37:12 PM
Taking advantage of Dune's reminder of the opacity trick on the leaves I have major improvement; and I went with flowers over rocks/stones...seemed more appropriate to the scene.
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: Dune on July 08, 2018, 01:58:37 AM
You have some more light passing through in the darks now. But I would put the flowers in a small number of groups/patches, like they thrive on subtle differences in soils.  Perhaps with an added big rock or larger shrub in the center(s) of those patches.
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: Hannes on July 08, 2018, 05:18:00 AM
Great improvement, Bobby. I agree with Ulco. The flowers could have some more randomness in distribution. All in all a great image!
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: DocCharly65 on July 08, 2018, 01:10:28 PM
Much better now, Bobby!
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....final update...
Post by: bobbystahr on July 08, 2018, 06:18:01 PM
...using Dune's suggestions...gonna call this done...Thanks Ulco...1 second faster with less flowers and added fakestones heh heh, go figger
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: Dune on July 09, 2018, 01:38:42 AM
That's it, Bobby. Great result!
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: bobbystahr on July 09, 2018, 01:43:58 AM
Quote from: Dune on July 09, 2018, 01:38:42 AM
That's it, Bobby. Great result!

Thanks for the compliment and your suggestions helping it along. I still get timid with pops and need to remember I can do as many as my memory can handle heh heh
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: ajcgi on July 09, 2018, 06:08:25 AM
No, don't give up, this is begging for a tiger. Crouching perhaps. I can see there's a dragon in there, hidden well. ;)
Title: Re: Discovered the Curry Leaf Tree....
Post by: DocCharly65 on July 09, 2018, 06:04:40 PM
Very good result! I like it!