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Title: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: sonshine777 on October 27, 2007, 02:33:50 PM
Here is a test render of some wheat. I just finished making the models. I will post them on Ashunder and Terranuts.

Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Harvey Birdman on October 27, 2007, 03:17:16 PM
Looks good.   :)
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: zionner on October 27, 2007, 03:24:04 PM
Yeah, Nice man.

Like the model ;)
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: dhavalmistry on October 27, 2007, 03:44:14 PM
nice pov although I would take the camera up a little if I were you.....atleast until the height of wheat....

I like the clouds too.....but pink atmosphere??.....looks kinda odd...but thats just me :)
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: rcallicotte on October 27, 2007, 03:49:58 PM
Very nice.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Seth on October 27, 2007, 04:26:17 PM
don't listen to Dhav ! he hates pink ;D
great shot i like the model.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: old_blaggard on October 27, 2007, 05:03:45 PM
I would also raise the camera a bit, but the models and atmosphere look fantastic!
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Ogre on October 27, 2007, 10:18:26 PM
Perfect as is!
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Oshyan on October 31, 2007, 05:00:47 PM
Very nice looking models, quite useful. Looks like they need a lot of AA, but that's just how things go with thin/pointy stuff like grass.

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: moodflow on October 31, 2007, 11:43:36 PM
I agree with Oshyan.  I've been using AA of 10 on my foliage tests, which seems to work well, and I haven't really noticed a big hit on render times.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: sonshine777 on October 31, 2007, 11:46:37 PM
Thanks guys I will up the AA when I go for a final render. This one was mainly a test to see how well the model would look in a population.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain (Updated)
Post by: sonshine777 on November 02, 2007, 01:02:33 PM
Here is the next version of the grain field. I'm not totally happy but after 24 hours of rendering I thought I would still share.
I tried raising the camera a little and it turned out to be too much.

More to come. :)
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: old_blaggard on November 02, 2007, 01:15:20 PM
The increased AA here is really useful.  Since you can see so much sky, maybe you should put in some fantastic evening clouds ;).
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: child@play on November 02, 2007, 01:21:35 PM
very cool! reminds me of 'gladiator'
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Seth on November 02, 2007, 02:08:43 PM
very very nice !!
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: sjefen on November 02, 2007, 02:55:46 PM
Looks like some very nice models and thank you very much for sharing :P
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: reck on November 04, 2007, 05:14:16 PM
Just been playing around with your wheat object sonshine. This is a very nice object, what software did you create it in?
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: reck on November 04, 2007, 06:25:55 PM
Actually i'm having problems with this object. If I load the Wheat object into TG2 and then try and save the project it crashes the software. If I then try and open the project I get an error message. This happens if i'm using it in a population or just on it's own. I even loaded TG2 from scratch, loaded the object and then tried to save the project without doing anything else and it crashed, so it can't be anything else in the scene. Anyone got this problem? i'm using the PC version.

I've attached an example project that crashes when you try and load it up.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Oshyan on November 04, 2007, 07:20:32 PM
The attached .tgd does not include the object. What is the path to the object on your computer? Does it include any non-English characters or special accents?

- Oshyan
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Dark Fire on November 04, 2007, 07:32:25 PM
Slightly off-topic, but does anyone know what Microsoft does with information like that sent off in error reports? Is it archived in some way? If it is, I'd love to be able to look for error reports I've generated when testing my own software... :D
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: Mr_Lamppost on November 04, 2007, 08:00:32 PM
Staying off topic

I don't trust Microsoft I never send off those reports  :-X
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: dhavalmistry on November 04, 2007, 09:10:48 PM
Quote from: Mr_Lamppost on November 04, 2007, 08:00:32 PM
Staying off topic

I don't trust Microsoft I never send off those reports  :-X


me neither
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: sonshine777 on November 05, 2007, 12:05:42 AM
Quote from: reck on November 04, 2007, 05:14:16 PM
Just been playing around with your wheat object sonshine. This is a very nice object, what software did you create it in?

The model was originally created in X-Frog 3.5 demo. But I was never really happy with it. I imported it into Cinema 4D and fixed the things I didn't like, exported it to a .3ds file and ran it through PoseRay to get an .obj file that TG2 liked (it doesn't seem to like the C4d export to .obj)

I know it is a round about way to get there but it worked. :)
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: reck on November 05, 2007, 07:50:35 AM
Quote from: Oshyan on November 04, 2007, 07:20:32 PM
The attached .tgd does not include the object. What is the path to the object on your computer? Does it include any non-English characters or special accents?

- Oshyan

Hi Oshyan,

I'm not at my home computer at the momnet but I have a folder structure like this.


<User folder>\documents\Terragen files\

So the project will be saved in

<User folder>\documents\Terragen files\projects\field\proj1.tdg

and the object will be saved in

<User folder>\documents\Terragen files\objects\grass\wheat03.tgo

The object is called wheat03 so does not contain any non english characters and neither does the path to the object\project file as you can see above. I've tried to load the object into TG2 and resave it but it made no difference. All my other objects are saved in the same subfolder and i've had no problems with these objects in the past.

I've just downloaded the free preview version here at work and installed it on an xp machine. The file saves ok on this machine so it's something on my home vista computer. When I get home tonight i'll have a play around and make sure my other plants still load in ok.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: reck on November 11, 2007, 07:33:25 AM
Just wanted to add what was causing this problem in case anyone else comes across this.

When Oshyan asked if the path contained any non-English or special accents I checked the folder path. The wheat was stored in a folder called "grass & wheat". Renaming the folder to "grass and wheat" has stopped the software from crashing. So the simple rule is don't use the & sign in folders if you want to access them in Terragen.
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: xNickx on November 18, 2007, 12:31:17 PM
My photo is very similar (http://digart.img.digart.pl/data/img/12/28/download/935519.jpg)

Nice models!
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: reck on November 20, 2007, 02:48:43 AM
Thanks for this great object sonshine777. Here's mine

Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: dhavalmistry on November 20, 2007, 09:03:53 AM
it looks great reck!
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: sonshine777 on November 20, 2007, 12:54:32 PM
Looks great! Thanks for sharing one of its many uses, and your welcome. :)
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: mogn on November 21, 2007, 01:47:46 AM
Quote from: reck on November 11, 2007, 07:33:25 AM
Just wanted to add what was causing this problem in case anyone else comes across this.

When Oshyan asked if the path contained any non-English or special accents I checked the folder path. The wheat was stored in a folder called "grass & wheat". Renaming the folder to "grass and wheat" has stopped the software from crashing. So the simple rule is don't use the & sign in folders if you want to access them in Terragen.


And dont use & in name of nodes either!
Title: Re: Amber waves of Grain
Post by: rcallicotte on November 21, 2007, 07:45:29 AM
@reck - That looks very nice.  Good work!  I especially like the POV.