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Title: Angel Light - V2
Post by: darthvader on April 11, 2009, 02:50:16 PM
In this on I am trying to capture what it would look like to see a sunrise in the Puget Sound. I think the land fits but I have problems with how the clouds look, both in their shape and those blue spots on the bottom. However, I was surprised to get the sunrays since they were not intended at all. Comments and Critiques greatly appreciated.

Render time: ~10 hours
Detail: .9
AA: 8
GI: 1/1

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Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: Mohawk20 on April 11, 2009, 03:01:44 PM
Those are the best rays I've ever seen in TG2! So sharp!
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 11, 2009, 04:50:01 PM
Awesome rays dude, fantastic!
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: GioMez on April 12, 2009, 11:38:56 AM
Why don't you try to increase GI at least to 2/2? Maybe clouds will benefit...
But probably you have to tweak (increase) the blur radius to remove the blue spots... Or turn on the Supersample prepass.
Let us see the results! ;)
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: inkydigit on April 12, 2009, 01:08:33 PM
sweet rays!
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 12, 2009, 03:25:41 PM
I've got another render going now, hopefully my computer will be able to cran it out by tomorrow :)
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: domdib on April 12, 2009, 06:14:00 PM
The rays are fantastic: but to me, the blue spots you don't like seem to be an authentic effect of intense light bouncing off the bottom of v dark clouds. My guess is you won't get rid of them unless you do some radical things to the clouds: e.g. tweaking the ambient lighting, shifting the scattering colour or something of that nature. And if you change the cloud seed, you lose the rays. Choices, choices...
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 13, 2009, 05:52:40 PM
Correct, it is all about choices...and my choice is to massively change the scene (mostly because the water takes far too long to render so I get impatient :D ). I think that it will be a better, and more grandiose image.
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 13, 2009, 05:58:30 PM
Quote from: darthvader on April 13, 2009, 05:52:40 PM
Correct, it is all about choices...and my choice is to massively change the scene (mostly because the water takes far too long to render so I get impatient :D ). I think that it will be a better, and more grandiose image.

You certainly followed one rule of thumb for composition (1/3 water, 2/3 sky) but with land in the background etc. you can easily change it to 1/6 of water.
If you change the aspect-ratio to something cinematic like 16:9 or 2.35:1 the sense of "grandiose-ness" can be great!

All in all your plans sound promising, so I look forward to see what you come up with!

Martin
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: Arandil on April 15, 2009, 11:07:00 PM
That actually looks like a wee bit o' FOAM along the lower/right-center edge of the image, neat!  Um, is it foam and not just light reflections?   ???
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 16, 2009, 01:23:42 AM
Unfortunately no foam, just some reflections  :'(
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: rcallicotte on April 16, 2009, 08:56:36 AM
The rays are glorious and I like how it seems more realistic in the scene.  Great point of view.
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 16, 2009, 11:14:05 AM
Some bad news: my computer decided it was a good idea to install new updates and shut down while rendering, so it is going to be a while before the next version comes out. However, this should allow me to work on some things that are bugging me...like the atmosphere grain and the "layers" in the clouds.

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Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: Mohawk20 on April 16, 2009, 01:14:59 PM
That is an amazing sky! How much trouble was it to get the clouds just right?
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 16, 2009, 01:26:25 PM
I honestly don't remember, I just found ths scene when cleaning out old files on my computer...but I'll guess that it took a while. ;)
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 17, 2009, 10:42:58 AM
Sorry for the delay, but the latest version is taking a lot longer to render than I thought it would, but I think the results may be worth the wait.
Title: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 18, 2009, 10:46:21 AM
It's finally done! I am really happy how the rays came out in this version...though I need to find a way to cut down on render time. The atmosphere grain problem was absurd, even with 300 atmo samples I had to bump the overall detail up to 1.3 to make the rays grain free...maybe I need to could go with a better AA filter sine I forgot to change that away from the default "box" setting. I think I want to move the camera closer to the light portions of the terrain and in doing so cut down on the band of dark forest on the bottom of the image. Any comments/critiques/suggestions are very much appreciated :)

Render Time: 37 hours 13 minutes
Detail: 1.3
AA: 8
GI 1/1

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Angel-Light-WIP-119665183
Title: Re: The Coast WIP
Post by: cyphyr on April 18, 2009, 10:53:04 AM
Absolutely stunning, beautiful and inspiring, you've given me some great ideas :)
richard
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: Hetzen on April 18, 2009, 02:52:43 PM
I hear a choir of angels.

Now press random seed on the clouds and do that again. ;D
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 19, 2009, 01:56:17 AM
Thanks ;D
@ Hetzen: sounds like a fun little challenge to me, I will probably do that one I've milked all I can out of this shot  :)
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: trekker317 on April 19, 2009, 03:12:15 PM
Awesome rays, beautiful work !

Best regards,Thierry
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: Saurav on April 19, 2009, 07:56:50 PM
Awesome rays and clouds.
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 20, 2009, 01:16:23 AM
Thank you :D
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: domdib on April 21, 2009, 05:54:08 PM
Yes, you are setting a new standard for rays in TG2.
Title: Re: Angel Light - WIP
Post by: darthvader on April 22, 2009, 01:26:38 AM
Thanks! I have another version rendering now, same clouds but the sun has been moved and the trees have been improved so it should be a better image.
Title: Re: Angel Light - V2
Post by: darthvader on April 23, 2009, 11:53:38 AM
Here is the next one, a bit more desktop wallpaper friendly than the last version. It uses the same cloud seed as the pervious image although I changed around the sun's elevation and position to get different rays. I like the trees in this one although they still seem flat to me (especially the fir trees). I think I like the wider format better so I may switch back to that. All comments, critiques, or suggestions are always appreciated.

Render time: 35 hours 2 minute   (I really wish I hade a faster computer :-[ )
Detail: 1
AA: 8
GI: 1/1

http://gannaingh32.deviantart.com/art/Angel-Light-V2-120218458
Title: Re: Angel Light - V2
Post by: domdib on April 23, 2009, 03:40:59 PM
Wow  :)