This is an image I have been working on for awhile.
It took 10hrs 22min to render
Render Settings:
Size: 800x432
Detail: 0.75
Anti-aliasing: 4
GI detail: 3
GI quality: 3
GI blur radius: 2
Supersample prepass and GI surface detail enabled
C&C welcome
Beautiful clouds. Nice lighting. Might be a personal preference, but I want to see more of your ground - it looks pretty good.
agree with calico ! the ground seems to be very good !
Beautiful composition, the cloud is very impressive, like Seth I find the ground been successful !
This looks very good! Good composition and clouds :) I'm glad you didn't make the foreground too 'busy' so the attention keeps on the cloud.
The surfacing is very good also.
There are some minor things I'd like to see improved. The water is a bit rough to my taste, however I can easily imagine it is very windy there, but the wavescale is a tad too big I think compared to the stones. The clouds and sunglow effect are great :) Maybe you can lighten up the shadows in the cloud a bit to show a little bit more definition.
If possible: render this BIGGER :P ;D
Beautiful work!
Martin
Thank you all for the comments. I have tried to render a larger image but I get memory errors close to the end because I only have 1 GB of ram (and my faster rendering machine is out of commission). I even tried doing a crop render but you can see the seam between the 2 parts and there is a little spot that wasn't rendered because of the errors. I am going to put these images together and then I will post it. I will also work on the water at some point. I kind of just threw the water in.
too bad... i have 1Gb ram too but i don't get error memory...
i really hope you'll be able to do some bigger render of this one (with some evolution of course) ;)
Quote from: dwilson on July 16, 2008, 02:43:38 PM
Thank you all for the comments. I have tried to render a larger image but I get memory errors close to the end because I only have 1 GB of ram (and my faster rendering machine is out of commission). I even tried doing a crop render but you can see the seam between the 2 parts and there is a little spot that wasn't rendered because of the errors. I am going to put these images together and then I will post it. I will also work on the water at some point. I kind of just threw the water in.
Well, I have 8 gigs of memory and a quadcore. It seems like you're not using the latest version since you mentioned about seeing seams between renders. Is that correct?
I can render this double this size in a day for you, easily, if you want to :)
Martin
No, I am using the latest version (1.9.98.1). I did 2 cropped renders, the top and the bottom, and you could see the seam in the cloud. I will PM the file to you later.
Here is the pieced together larger render. 1280x691
Nothing has changed in the image (other than the size)
Devin
very nice work here!
Quote from: dwilson on July 16, 2008, 05:54:22 PM
Here is the pieced together larger render. 1280x691
Nothing has changed in the image (other than the size)
Devin
hmmm...I don't see a seam so quickly?
Thanks for the file, I've put in the "queue" so to say :)
I see I was maybe a bit too over-confident about rendering this twice as big in a day :) See you have GI @ 3/3 ;) lol
How about 1750x945?
Martin
i like the cloud ;)
You don't see it because there isn't one in the cloud. I pieced together multiple images so the cloud wouldn't have a seam. Here is the image with the seam in the cloud.
That size is fine.
Devin
nice bug under the cloud ^^
It's rendering for almost 5 hours already Devin.
Hopefully it is finished when I'm back from work (7,5 hours later) :)
I took the liberty to disable the GI surface detail because it saves LOTS of rendertime and you'll probably not notice the difference.
If so I can always render it again.
Quote from: seth93 on July 17, 2008, 05:04:39 AM
nice bug under the cloud ^^
I think it isn't a bug, but just a piece of unfinished render, aborted by the user ;)
Martin
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on July 17, 2008, 05:27:13 AM
It's rendering for almost 5 hours already Devin.
Hopefully it is finished when I'm back from work (7,5 hours later) :)
I took the liberty to disable the GI surface detail because it saves LOTS of rendertime and you'll probably not notice the difference.
If so I can always render it again.
Quote from: seth93 on July 17, 2008, 05:04:39 AM
nice bug under the cloud ^^
I think it isn't a bug, but just a piece of unfinished render, aborted by the user ;)
Martin
Martin that is fine and thanks so much for rendering this.
Seth93 the "bug" under the cloud is there because of a memory error that appeared before the render finished rendering and caused the render to stop.
damn... i hope the final one will be great ^^
It's rendering in 2 instances with 2 cores each and the left half of the image with 2% overlap, which is just enough for this resolution, is finished after 13,5 hours :)
Now I just have to let the other instance use the other 2 cores as well and this should be finished tonight!
I'll send you the .bmp by e-mail and if it doesn't fit your mailbox it will be .jpg with lowest compression.
Martin
edit: finished! ;D
Here is the large image that Tangled Universe rendered for me.
http://www.visualrivetstudios.com/visualrivetstudios/terragen/desert_cloudsk_large.jpg (http://www.visualrivetstudios.com/visualrivetstudios/terragen/desert_cloudsk_large.jpg)
I have been working on some changes in the cloud and the water so this probably won't be the final image.
Devin
Great scene. The surfacing looks good.
Would you be willing to share your clouds in the cloud library, or at least provide your settings as I'd vary much like to learn from what you've done? ;D
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
Quote from: Cyber-Angel on July 17, 2008, 11:31:32 PM
Would you be willing to share your clouds in the cloud library, or at least provide your settings as I'd vary much like to learn from what you've done? ;D
Regards to you.
Cyber-Angel
I just put them up. Thank you for reminding me. I have been meaning to put them in the cloud library.
Devin
amazing cloud !
good job !!!
This is a great render. I love everything about it.
Thanks for sharing your clouds with us.