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Title: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: littlerocketstudios on June 16, 2010, 05:49:16 AM
Hello boys and girls,

Inspired by stories of oil spill and crap, chocolate, decided to make a rather darkish scene.

(http://www.littlerocketstudios.com/tg2/cloudwalk3_small.jpg)

Click here for a bigger version: http://www.littlerocketstudios.com/tg2/cloudwalk3_big.jpg (http://www.littlerocketstudios.com/tg2/cloudwalk3_big.jpg) (1920 x 1200 @ 561 KB )

Accidentally and to my amazement, I got a nice effect by just plugging in a Alpine fractal shader into the chain and some "fiddling about".

My Mac Book Pro 2,5 Ghz had to sweat for 26 hours just to get to the finish...

Of course I could have tuned the render settings, but I was pretty lazy and ignorant ;)

(http://www.littlerocketstudios.com/tg2/cloudwalk3_settings.png)

Hope you like it.

Bye bye !
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: FrankB on June 16, 2010, 07:10:15 AM
This is a great looking scene, very well done! Shame about the atmo noise in the upper right, but anyway, this looks great.

regards,
Frank
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: domdib on June 16, 2010, 07:31:34 AM
Very unusual displacements, and great lighting.
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: MGebhart on June 16, 2010, 07:56:21 AM
Wow! Giant Brownie.

This is cool. Nice lava flow field.
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: littlerocketstudios on June 16, 2010, 08:05:44 AM
Hey, thanks for the cheers !

I suppose I should have cranked up the quality of the atmosphere to get rid of the grainy noise... Hope to upgrade to a proper render beast anytime soon... Now, let's see if Steve put's some hexacores into the new Macs  ;)

Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: Walli on June 16, 2010, 08:28:02 AM
nice terrain, nice "fiddling around" ;-)
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: inkydigit on June 16, 2010, 08:38:32 AM
looks great, where did you plug the af shader?
0.9  is very high quality, you may get away with less, especially if you up the atmo/cloud quality...the clouds and sky are really good too!
:)
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: littlerocketstudios on June 16, 2010, 08:56:07 AM
@inkydigit: The nodes are really very minimalistic ;)

The surface layer is only for a little bit of "sand"...

(http://www.littlerocketstudios.com/tg2/cloudwalk3_nodes.png)
Title: Re: Dark chocolate 70% mmm
Post by: Zairyn Arsyn on June 16, 2010, 09:53:40 AM
littlerocket, you just gave me a craving for dark chocolate, thanks  ;D
i'm going to get my self a shovel, and dig up some dark chocolate deposits. :D

the clouds look cool, well done, despite the quality