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Title: Remembering Bob
Post by: bobbystahr on July 11, 2016, 02:24:42 PM
Every time I make a desert type scene I think of Bob (chornor) the desert master. With the erosion plugin back in the pipeline this quickly evolved and required a desert atmosphere. Luckily I had a few of Bob's to choose from so I guess this is a jam session. The strata needs more work so I'll call this a W I P and add C&C welcome
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: yossam on July 11, 2016, 02:50:40 PM
Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also.  :)
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: bobbystahr on July 11, 2016, 03:21:30 PM
Quote from: yossam on July 11, 2016, 02:50:40 PM
Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also.  :)

Thanks, in the works for the strata but I hesitate on the clouds as they're a Bob clip, part of my memory.
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: masonspappy on July 11, 2016, 03:56:23 PM
Quote from: bobbystahr on July 11, 2016, 03:21:30 PM
Quote from: yossam on July 11, 2016, 02:50:40 PM
Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also.  :)

Thanks, in the works for the strata but I hesitate on the clouds as they're a Bob clip, part of my memory.
Bob loved to experiment and tweak settings. He'd probably tell you to go for it   ;)
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: bobbystahr on July 11, 2016, 06:25:49 PM
Quote from: masonspappy on July 11, 2016, 03:56:23 PM
Quote from: bobbystahr on July 11, 2016, 03:21:30 PM
Quote from: yossam on July 11, 2016, 02:50:40 PM
Just a thought............soften your clouds some, and break up your strata some also.  :)

Thanks, in the works for the strata but I hesitate on the clouds as they're a Bob clip, part of my memory.
Bob loved to experiment and tweak settings. He'd probably tell you to go for it   ;)

You're prob'ly right...I'll see what I can come up with then.....
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: Dune on July 12, 2016, 02:27:34 AM
Good show, Bobby, to remember Bob this way. I agree with Richard, break it all up, soften clouds. You can use more than one strata shader, with totally different settings, angled, masked by PF, whatever, to get a more diverse terrain. I'd work on the terrain first, then see if it needs clouds.
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: DocCharly65 on July 13, 2016, 03:35:32 AM
Quote from: Dune on July 12, 2016, 02:27:34 AM
... I'd work on the terrain first, then see if it needs clouds.

as he says  :)
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: inkydigit on July 13, 2016, 08:20:27 AM
Bob would've loved this... maybe some more varied cacti?
great job all the same, and a great sentiment, Bobby
:)
J
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: Hannes on July 13, 2016, 01:57:13 PM
Great, Bobby! I'm missing Bob. I loved his comments.
Agree about the improvements. I'm sure, Bob would love it!
Title: Re: Remembering Bob_UPDATE_WIP
Post by: bobbystahr on July 14, 2016, 07:49:21 AM
Well the other set up just wasn't cooperating so I started fresh. Seems Ulco was right, sometimes you really don't need those lovely clouds as this is a desert after all...Ozone really helped the sky a lot.
Was rendering an AA8, Detail.7 version over nite and came awake to find TG4 BETA had closed/crashed...went looking for an automatic save and wadda ya know there are none for the BETA...near as I can tell and I did search.
Anyhow here's this version, C&C welcome.
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: Dune on July 14, 2016, 09:00:47 AM
I like this, but I think you need a slightly higher POV, and group/cluster the plants more into patches, perhaps restricted to lower areas? In gullies, eroded, sort of.
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: Jo Kariboo on July 14, 2016, 09:13:18 AM
I much prefer the latter. I believe that as Dune distributions of vegetation could be improved.
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: bobbystahr on July 14, 2016, 09:53:13 AM
In agreement guys and thanks for the confirmation. That's what I had on the render that disappeared...most curious that. Has anyone else had a disappearing render like that and has any one found the BETA auto output files?
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: DannyG on July 14, 2016, 02:04:48 PM
Quote from: bobbystahr on July 11, 2016, 02:24:42 PM
I think of Bob (chornor)

Bob was the man, I miss him around here as well
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: Oshyan on July 14, 2016, 05:45:21 PM
Automatic save of images works the same way in TG4 beta as it does in TG3. First, make sure the option is enabled. Second, images are only saved *if the render completes*. In the case of crashes it usually will not be able to save an image.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Remembering Bob
Post by: bobbystahr on July 14, 2016, 06:53:13 PM
Quote from: Oshyan on July 14, 2016, 05:45:21 PM
Automatic save of images works the same way in TG4 beta as it does in TG3. First, make sure the option is enabled. Second, images are only saved *if the render completes*. In the case of crashes it usually will not be able to save an image.

- Oshyan

I never enabled that, ooops. Thanks Oshyan.