Took me a while to figure this one out, but with a little help from the forum it came out better than expected.
Damn Greg, that's a beauty! Well worth the time you put in, if I may say so. :)
- Oshyan
Great!
Very convincing and good colour.
Stunning image, great lighting there and magnificent view!
Cheers,
Martin
thats really impressive and beautiful!
Great clouds Greg :)
Really nice! :o
Very well executed :)
Maybe add a small island chain to give it a sense of scale.
Richard
Awesome!
Very well done!
Outstanding! The lighting is super.
Really stunning! The 'god-rays' slicing thru the swirling clouds form waterfalls of light giving an incredible feeling of depth. The deep range of colors and the sun's majestic glow on the planet's surface truly create an almost 'romantic' view from near orbit. Wonderful!
Hi Greg,
I think a lot, including me, are interested to know how you processed this image after rendering?
Cheers,
Martin
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on February 08, 2013, 12:18:39 PM
Hi Greg,
I think a lot, including me, are interested to know how you processed this image after rendering?
Cheers,
Martin
Very little was done. I've noticed that Terragen tends to render images that look like the flat pass of a plate delivery, which is actually good because it gives you a lot of range to play with after the fact. All I did was take the rendered .exr file and bring it into Nuke, where I pulled the gamma down about 20% which boosts the saturation a bit and increases contrast and then I pulled up the yellows a little more in the upper mid tones and highs. All in all it was a pretty light touch, only two operations.
Beautifull !!!
Now, are you sure you posted the actual render and not the reference photo? Because I sure as heck can't tell. 8)
Photoreal. Outstanding!
Beautiful render!
very nice!!
how long did TG render @ this pic??
cheers
I missed this one... This looks like a satellite image. Excellent!
Thats a stunner, awesome
Quote from: 4nt on February 09, 2013, 06:43:48 AM
very nice!!
how long did TG render @ this pic??
cheers
Quite reasonable. As I recall I got the render times down to less than 10 minutes a frame, enough to where I was able to make a tilt up animation.
Great :)
Thanks everyone!
Very impressive Greg... Wow, don't know how I missed this !!
Absolutely fabulous!
Incredible! You used an image map for the clouds, didn't you?
Yes. I found a nice hurricane image on the NASA site and pumped it through the cloud density input.
It -only- took me a week and a half to figure out after numerous failures, but it worked in the end. The main thing that kept tripping me up was how dependent the final cloud quality was on the resolution of the source image. Once that lightbulb went off, the rest was easy.
Greg
Very cool. These sorts of high POVs of clouds are one of TG2s great strengths.
Just wow, great picture!
Would love to learn something about interaction of image maps (NASA/ESA/etc.) and the shown result with TG cloud thingies pre-post.. ???
Quote from: gregtee on February 20, 2013, 03:40:10 AM
Yes. I found a nice hurricane image on the NASA site and pumped it through the cloud density input.
It -only- took me a week and a half to figure out after numerous failures, but it worked in the end. The main thing that kept tripping me up was how dependent the final cloud quality was on the resolution of the source image. Once that lightbulb went off, the rest was easy.
Greg
Well, what did you decide? How dependent IS the final quality on the resolution of the source? Higher = better?
Beautiful image.
In my part of the world we have a word for something that's absolutely terrific - 'gobsmacked' . That's what I thought when I saw it. I even showed it to my fearless leader, who just glanced at it and muttered something about astronauts and cameras as she sauntered back to the kitchen, where she belongs!
rat.
The size of the pixels of the image dictates the appearance of the final cloud. If you can see the pixels, your clouds will also show them along their edges. I thought the clouds would be able to render independently of the image map edges, but they don't. That's what was tripping me up.
-Greg
Thumbs up!
Great work!
that's utterly stunning! wow! nice work!