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Title: Blue moment
Post by: Mor on April 13, 2011, 08:49:54 AM

This one is very close to what I saw every morning few weeks ago while driving at work :) Rendertime was almost 71h, because of ray traced shadows.
Comments and suggestions welcome :)

Edit: Plants used: Marc Gebhart's white birch and Walli's pines.

(http://www.melnworld.com/tg2/blue%20moment.jpg)
(Full size 1920x1080, view via right mouse click :))

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Seth on April 13, 2011, 09:00:18 AM

nice light
i really like the reflection of the sun on the ground

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 13, 2011, 09:03:36 AM

Totally agree with Seth. Looks lovely, great scene!

(Next time you can save a lot of rendertime by only rendering a crop of the part where you needed the raytraced atmosphere for (as I suppose you wanted to prevent the sun from shining through the terrain) instead of the whole image.)

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Dune on April 13, 2011, 09:12:28 AM

Very nice! But did you really need the RT shadows?

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Seth on April 13, 2011, 09:27:37 AM

yes I think he needs it to prevent the sun coming through his terrain and vegetation, as Martin stated before.
well, I guess ^^

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Henry Blewer on April 13, 2011, 10:10:07 AM

Great work here. It does look like the early winter morning.

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Mor on April 13, 2011, 10:23:26 AM

Thanks a lot for your comments. Yes, I needed the RT shadows because sun was shining through the hill :)

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Kadri on April 13, 2011, 01:17:13 PM

Nice morning scene , Mor :)
71h is a very long time . I hope-wish Matt will make such renders faster in the future with new updates!

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: inkydigit on April 13, 2011, 01:23:50 PM

great results, beautiful scene!

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: sjefen on April 13, 2011, 03:28:29 PM

Nice colors and image.
Great job :)

Regards,
Terje

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Markal on April 14, 2011, 01:11:03 AM

Very photorealistic....nice work!!!

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Redwolf on April 14, 2011, 04:57:13 AM

I agree!!!

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: ajcgi on April 14, 2011, 10:22:29 AM

Well that is good. Very very nice. 71 hours is mad. Is it just the shadows causing that?

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: buzzzzz1 on April 14, 2011, 10:58:33 AM

Really nice work, I love this.

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Mor on April 14, 2011, 12:59:05 PM

Thanks!

Quote from: ajcgi on April 14, 2011, 10:22:29 AM
Well that is good. Very very nice. 71 hours is mad. Is it just the shadows causing that?

Yes the shadows caused that. Detail is 0.65 and AA 4.

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: domdib on April 14, 2011, 03:41:10 PM

Very nice image with lovely light. The next time you're having trouble with sun through landscape, you might want to try this hack: http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=7369.0 , although I'm not sure if it still works in this version of TG2, as I've noticed that the sun disc *seems* to be more penetrating through clouds in the latest version. Another possibility I just noticed today is an object with a water shader, as once the decay distance is sufficiently high, light can't penetrate.

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Themodman101 on April 14, 2011, 03:41:41 PM

Wow, thats beautiful! really love the lighting.. Just one thing though, are the shadows non existent from the sun? or are they just really light?

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: Dune on April 15, 2011, 03:54:24 AM

Speaking about the hack; maybe a copy of the main planet would work, perhaps a tad smaller, nothing attached to it, just used to thicken the 'earth crust'. If the sun goes below the real horizon at least.

Title: Re: Blue moment
Post by: max_thehitman on April 21, 2011, 06:26:48 PM

This is extremely beautiful. Its a winner!
Congratulations!!

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