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Title: Medieval defence works
Post by: Dune on November 26, 2020, 10:08:17 AM
Not a render to share, but a number of them, used to educate people about what's under their feet: https://grensgevallen.eu/virtuele-reconstructie/ (https://grensgevallen.eu/virtuele-reconstructie/)
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Post by: WAS on November 26, 2020, 01:59:53 PM
That's awesome. Great work!
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Post by: DocCharly65 on November 27, 2020, 05:07:48 AM
In fact! Great renders!
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Post by: zaxxon on November 27, 2020, 09:45:07 AM
Every one of those is a window into the past. Your work is so detailed and there are so many 'stories' in each image. I can only begin to appreciate the amount of time and creativity put into these scenes: splendid artwork Ulco!
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Post by: Dune on November 27, 2020, 10:47:40 AM
Thank you all!
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Post by: mhaze on November 28, 2020, 04:16:42 AM
Fantastic work ,Ulco.
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Post by: Dune on November 28, 2020, 04:34:42 AM
Thanks, Mick.
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Post by: sboerner on November 28, 2020, 10:33:01 AM
QuoteFantastic work ,Ulco.
Agreed. The amount of detail here is incredible. Interesting website, too. Google Translate translates the word for your work as "sculptures," which actually seems very appropriate.
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Post by: Dune on November 28, 2020, 11:03:28 AM
Thanks Steve. And yes, you're right, never thought of them that way.
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Post by: Dune on November 30, 2020, 01:55:03 AM
While I'm using this title, I might as well drop this render here. Commissioned so I had to put a watermark in it, but you'll get the gist. Defence works around a small town in 1742 AD. A lot of work making all these houses and bridges the right sizes from medieval measurements, and placing them as they should sit. I kept them pretty lowpoly, otherwise I would still be busy.
I also had trouble keeping bushes on one side of the fence in the water. Opacity on world scale doesn't work - which I still miss in a lot of circumstances - so I couldn't mask leaves or branches of the pop off on one side. But they might have grown through in reality too, I suspect.
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Post by: N-drju on November 30, 2020, 04:25:54 AM
Absolutely stunning. Just when I thought you have reached the top of your abilities, you render something like this and push the limit even further. :o :)

Working with your new machine already? I'm still waiting for 5950x...
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Post by: DocCharly65 on November 30, 2020, 04:40:05 AM
Fantastic work ,Ulco. I agree with N-drju -- pushing the limits :)
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Post by: Dune on November 30, 2020, 07:33:09 AM
Thanks guys.

I still hesitate to purchase as I can stilll get by with what I have. I might just start out with a better GPU for better handling of stuff in preview as it's slow now, especially with smooth shaded on. Then if I do the total upgrade I just switch the GPU to that system. Only have to check if that particular GPU will sit nicely on my 'old' machine...
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Post by: KlausK on November 30, 2020, 08:24:08 AM
Very good! The brochure with your renders in it really makes it easy to imagine the world back then. My hats off.

CHeers, Klaus
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Post by: Jo Kariboo on November 30, 2020, 08:53:10 AM
Congratulations! Excellent educational work !
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Post by: RichTwo on November 30, 2020, 08:47:07 PM
I can never even imagine being able to accomplish such a magnitude of work!  I'll take a bow...
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Post by: masonspappy on November 30, 2020, 09:30:07 PM
Nicely done - and really ambitious!!
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Post by: Hannes on December 01, 2020, 09:05:22 AM
Wow!!! Big wow!!! No words left anymore. Fantastic stuff! Congratulations!!
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Post by: Dune on December 01, 2020, 10:46:16 AM
Thanks!
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Post by: sboerner on December 01, 2020, 11:24:15 AM
Love this stuff. Fascinating to see how they adapted the traditional star-shaped fortress design to that flat terrain. Probably very effective, too.

Again, the detail is amazing. I can only imagine what your Terragen clip file folder must look like.  :)