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Title: Lighthouse
Post by: yossam on July 19, 2014, 11:26:08 PM
Anyone know what the 2 dark patches in the water are in the foreground? I thought they were shadows at first, but I don't know from what.  ???
Title: Re: Lighthouse
Post by: Upon Infinity on July 20, 2014, 12:13:36 AM
Bizarre.  I'm clueless.  On the other hand, it looks like you got a decent scene shaping up.
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Post by: TheBadger on July 20, 2014, 12:16:26 AM
The texture is working really nice on this one yossam.
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Post by: kaedorg on July 20, 2014, 02:32:54 AM
Nice one Yossam. Where did you get this Lighthouse ?

David
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Post by: choronr on July 20, 2014, 02:56:33 AM
Good one Richard. If the camera would go further back, maybe you would find the source of the shadow.
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Post by: Dune on July 20, 2014, 03:14:53 AM
Nice lighthouse and scene. I think if you hit the water shader's seed a few times, or reduce patchynes, the reflection will change. I think it's just a flattish area of reflection of the clouds.
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Post by: mhaze on July 20, 2014, 06:00:02 AM
good un  :)
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Post by: fleetwood on July 20, 2014, 08:42:59 AM
 That light house looks good. The symetrical base doors remind me of rocket access ports, it may be able to fly to a new place each day. :)

Since the light is coming from the right, I would still guess that there is some obstruction out of the frame on the right and the patches are a cast shadow.
Would like to see a wide angle render or spherical.
Title: Re: Lighthouse
Post by: yossam on July 20, 2014, 12:51:15 PM
Reseeded the water shader..............lost the dark patches. Thanks Ulco.  :)  I'm not thru with this yet. David, I'll post the link for the lighthouse in the next rendition. fleetwood, what aspect ratio for the spherical? I'm curious about the cloud in a wider aspect, haven't looked yet.  ::)


Here you go David.............


http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=102209 (http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?ViewProduct=102209)
Title: Re: Lighthouse
Post by: kaedorg on July 20, 2014, 02:25:44 PM
Thanks for the link Yossam
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Post by: fleetwood on July 20, 2014, 02:34:55 PM
I'd think an aspect ratio of 3 to 1 would show a fairly flat horizon.
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Post by: yossam on July 20, 2014, 05:38:13 PM
Here is 2 to 1, will post the spherical render when it finishes.  :)
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Post by: masonspappy on July 20, 2014, 07:16:15 PM
Whimsical...Cool... :)
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Post by: yossam on July 20, 2014, 08:10:48 PM
Spherical render at 3 to 1.  ::)
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Post by: Upon Infinity on July 20, 2014, 11:31:04 PM
If spherical, I'd recommend getting closer to the objects.  Neat, though.
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Post by: yossam on July 20, 2014, 11:35:21 PM
The camera is in the same position as the landscape version, all I did was change the camera type.  :)
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Post by: Upon Infinity on July 20, 2014, 11:38:44 PM
I know.  But the wide angle of view makes it look really far away.
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Post by: choronr on July 21, 2014, 01:08:14 AM
My son is a professional photographer for 'Sears'. He asked me for one of my landscape images saved using a spherical camera. He will use it in one of his projects where one will see it looking through a window. The set is an interior for a furniture display. I guess it somehow is converted and reverts back to the original image. He also asked that I save the image as an .exr file.
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Post by: Dune on July 21, 2014, 02:33:02 AM
Making a skybox out of your setup would be really nice, but with more 'vehicles and stuff' added, so if you look around you'll discover more and more. But you should position the camera right in the centre of all these things.
Like your clouds as well.
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Post by: fleetwood on July 21, 2014, 11:23:08 AM
The spherical gives it some interesting qualities. Thanks for doing it. I like what it does for the water and clouds.  Think the base rock needs to look wetter.
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Post by: archonforest on July 21, 2014, 12:43:50 PM
The last render is pretty awesome.
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Post by: bigben on July 23, 2014, 12:05:47 AM
The other thing he might ask you to do is set the camera tilt to 0°. Having a tilted camera when viewing the panorama is a bit trippy because the horizon will sway as you pan around. (I'm guessing it's about -2.25° here). upon Infinity's suggestion of moving closer is also possibly a good one, but that will partly depend on what the vertical field of view in the playback will be and/or whether the viewer will be able to control it.  Generally speaking though, for spherical panoramas it's often more effective to get up close and personal to the main subject. 

Couldn't resist having a play with this and making it a "little planet" (stereographic projection with a pitch of -90°)

And one last tip...  Whatever size image he asks for, add an extra 2px to the width and then crop 2px from the left hand edge of the image. There is a small processing artefact on this edge that will show up as a thin vertical line when the image is wrapped (e.g. thin light line going down from the centre in the attached image)  For the last pano I made I also cropped 2px from the top and bottom, but I didn't verify that this was actually necessary... the last update did fix the main glitches that were present at the edges when using the spherical camera and I was just being over-cautious/lazy/impatient.
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Post by: yossam on July 23, 2014, 12:27:48 AM
That is cool as hell............appreciate it very much.  :)  Do you mind if I post this at another site, I'll give you credit of course.
Title: Re: Lighthouse
Post by: Upon Infinity on July 23, 2014, 12:34:12 AM
How to do stereographic images?  It isn't a setting under camera...
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Post by: bigben on July 23, 2014, 01:30:36 AM
Quote from: yossam on July 23, 2014, 12:27:48 AM
That is cool as hell............appreciate it very much.  :)  Do you mind if I post this at another site, I'll give you credit of course.

Feel free. No need for credit. It's your image ;)

Quote from: Upon Infinity on July 23, 2014, 12:34:12 AM
How to do stereographic images?  It isn't a setting under camera...
It's not in TG. It's a popular image projection in panoramic stitching software https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=little%20planet (https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=little%20planet). I did this reprojection in PTGui
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Post by: archonforest on July 23, 2014, 09:52:13 AM
Bigben your version is just fawesome!!!!
Title: Re: Lighthouse
Post by: Tangled-Universe on July 23, 2014, 10:49:37 AM
A simple way to get the same projection is to use the "polar coordinates" filter in Photoshop and apply that to your 360 degree panoramic image.
Title: Re: Lighthouse
Post by: Upon Infinity on July 23, 2014, 11:07:37 AM
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on July 23, 2014, 10:49:37 AM
A simple way to get the same projection is to use the "polar coordinates" filter in Photoshop and apply that to your 360 degree panoramic image.

Thanks for the tip.  It's a neat effect.  I think I'll try that.
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Post by: TheBadger on July 23, 2014, 03:07:07 PM
A tut showing how in PS
http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-making-little-planets
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Post by: Upon Infinity on July 23, 2014, 04:17:09 PM
Quote from: TheBadger on July 23, 2014, 03:07:07 PM
A tut showing how in PS
http://abduzeedo.com/reader-tutorial-making-little-planets
Thanks.