Jeffrey Pines with Speedtree, Megascan rocks, World Machine distant peak. The Rainbow Trout are mine.
That's beautiful!!! Very calm and peaceful. A darker wet shader where the water hits the stones would make it perfect.
That's a beauty, Doug. I love that low view and the detail of it all. Nice composition with the seethrough.
May I nitpick? In very calm water I don't thing the waves that are there should have a ridgy top, but rather a perlin displacement.
Wow! Great render. Love the calmness of the pix. Well done for this! ;)
Sweet.
Thanks all!
Hannes, I agree that a 'wet' area at the water line would be an appropriate touch. Any ideas on how to create such a shader in TG? I used to have a shader in Max that did just that.
Ulco, you can always 'nit pick', and I always appreciate your insights. How would you set that up to add perlin noise?
For wetness just add an empty surface shader, set max height just above water level, and some softness, then add a color adjust as child, set gamma to 0.8 or lower if darker needed, and then add a reflective shader in between and turn RT off. You can leave it one, but that takes longer, but also gives a perfect reflection. Usually, I add another surface shader in between carrying the reflective shader and set a minimum altitude at just below water level to stop reflective pinpoints under water.
For small wavelest, just set water shader displacement to zero and add a pf in front of it with small sizes and very small displacement. Like 0.1/0.5/0.05 and displacement 0.05. You can warp the perlin a bit, and mask it to get (wind)patches.
That makes perfect sense Ulco, I'll give that a try. Thank you!
Nice to see a somewhat different render style/approach from your usual (which are always very good, of course :D). For my taste I find the lighting a bit flat and game-like, and the stones in particular seem a bit overly smooth and lacking in angles or much roughness. Other than that it's looking very good though, and those issues seem easily fixed if you agree with the crits.
- Oshyan
Like this a lot, especially the underwater clutter; must remember that for my next one with clear stagnent type water.
Waiting for the wetness-results ;)
But anyway already very beautiful!
looks good, my minus side of it is those pebbles, looks like ermmm,,,,plain and false apart from that looks great