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General => Image Sharing => Topic started by: deepdish on June 18, 2009, 07:50:49 PM

Title: The Floating Islands
Post by: deepdish on June 18, 2009, 07:50:49 PM
Render time: 3:47

I kinda like this one, just messing with displacements and trying to do good clouds (failing)

Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: neuspadrin on June 18, 2009, 08:14:46 PM
clouds still feel a little tf2'ey :P
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: deepdish on June 18, 2009, 08:31:32 PM
Quote from: neuspadrin on June 18, 2009, 08:14:46 PM
clouds still feel a little tf2'ey :P

I know :(  I lowered the edge sharpness too much methinks. But I didn't want grainy clouds :(
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: neuspadrin on June 18, 2009, 08:39:13 PM
if you want to learn clouds real well, learn from the awesome masters at nwda

http://nwda.webnode.com/terragen-2-preset-packs/

a non comercial license on one of the cloud packs could probably teach you a ton at a very low price.  i have a few of them and poking around the node network and checking out their values help to learn.
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: deepdish on June 18, 2009, 09:44:49 PM
Thanks
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: Zairyn Arsyn on June 18, 2009, 10:19:48 PM
i like the displacements, & the water
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: deepdish on June 19, 2009, 02:11:41 AM
Thanks, it's my first time making surfaces "rocky" through displacements :D
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: EoinArmstrong on June 19, 2009, 02:58:39 AM
Nice water, concept and colours - I wouldn't be a huge fan of those clouds, but that's prob just personal taste
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: domdib on June 19, 2009, 05:35:30 AM
The islands are good, and the water. With improved clouds (I'd second neuspadrin's suggestion - and also dig into the cloud library in the file sharing section) it would be a winner.
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: inkydigit on June 19, 2009, 08:55:08 AM
agree about the clouds....water is good as is the concept...are the islands giant fake stones?
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: MacGyver on June 19, 2009, 10:45:03 AM
Everythings totally fine, it would be great with some clouds from the cloud section as domdib said :)
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: deepdish on June 19, 2009, 12:49:44 PM
Quote from: inkydigit on June 19, 2009, 08:55:08 AM
agree about the clouds....water is good as is the concept...are the islands giant fake stones?

Yeah, the islands are giant fake stones with displacements applied. I'm gonna go check out the cloud library and render this again maybe :D
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: dwilson on June 20, 2009, 12:33:09 AM
Great scene.  I like the colors in the clouds, but the texture is the issue.  Maybe decrease the density of the clouds and increase the edge sharpness as you have said.
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: Sp34k on June 20, 2009, 03:06:17 AM
ayyy the water' is pleasin' to me eye!
Title: Re: The Floating Islands
Post by: deepdish on June 21, 2009, 02:00:58 AM
Quote from: Sp34k on June 20, 2009, 03:06:17 AM
ayyy the water' is pleasin' to me eye!

arr, she be a fine lass