showcased here, but carefully mixed in with Walli's other Fresh Grasses 1 - 3 in various variants, Crocus, Astilbe and Mouse Ear, Lilac and Dry Bush.
I think it must be around 15 populations here.
Oh, and a single Walli dandelion poking its head out in the lower right ;)
Cheers,
Frank
Looks great!
Nice render Frank :)
There is a interesting part -tree in the image. In the upper left part. The tree looks like it has a white kind of halo ?
ah, yes, that one blossoming japanese tree from one of the xfrog libraries.
nice place for a walk ! :)
Nice work :).
Quotethat one blossoming japanese tree
I would cut it down, Frank, it looks just like the luminosity is set far too high. Or put it somewhere downhill, not set against the sky. Apart from that it's a very realistic scene, I really like it!
---Dune
Thanks guys :-)
I forgot to mention this is an older scene I have posted here previously. I am just re-using this scene because I wanted to try to mix the dry grasses with the fresh ones, and I remembered I had a suitable scene set up already.
Frank
Like this a ton. Very natural.
Marc
Old or new, it's still bloody fantastic, Frank!
I love the foreground where you can see the earth through the grasses, very nice! :)
Yes very nice although I must admit I don't like the glowing tree either.
Is the DOF terragen?
Thanks :)
yes the DOF is native TG2.
Regards,
Frank
Quote from: FrankB on March 20, 2010, 06:23:13 PM
yes the DOF is native TG2.
I hope they manage to iron out the problems with the DOF for the next release so the rest of us can use it. I like how it works in this image.
very, very nice and I second that, DOF adds a lot to such scenes!
About the cherry - typical problem that can arise with with bright blossoms, often you have to reduce brightness of the texture to grey.
I don't deem it problematic at all. If this was a photograph, the white petals would probably be overexposed, too, as they stand against the sun.
Actually and honestly, I find this cherry an eye catching element of the scene ;)
Very nice scene Frank, shows the grasses nicely :)
The DOF really adds to the realism.
I tend to agree with the others about the blossom tree, one could call it an eye catcher since it draws the attention, others could call that distracting.
Martin
Quote from: FrankB on March 21, 2010, 07:01:27 AM
I don't deem it problematic at all. If this was a photograph, the white petals would probably be overexposed, too, as they stand against the sun.
Actually and honestly, I find this cherry an eye catching element of the scene ;)
Excuse me Frank but i don't think that it looks natural. If you can find a photo that looks alike that is another thing of course :)
I have seen this effect before in photos. It's called glare. Unless you are filming a new Star Trek movie, it's not desirable. For CG, it's considered a good thing.
well, the point is that if your photo would look like this, then I would say - work on your exposure ;-)
Kidding aside - yes, when lit from behind, then you could get some sort of glowing - the point is, on a photograph this object still would fit in place, would look like it belongs there. In case of your rendering it looks like the cherry has a different lighting. It simply looks out of place in my eyes. It almost looks like a 2D billboard, no sense of depth.
If you manage to keep the glow AND make it look like it belongs there, then you made it. Until then I would say - great rendering, but the cherry looks wrong.
Thats the reason why I said that its often hard to work with white blossoms.
Probably some sort of AO pass on the cherry would help to bring back the depth.
Quote from: Walli on March 22, 2010, 05:20:24 AM
well, the point is that if your photo would look like this, then I would say - work on your exposure ;-)
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:)
Good point Walli. I have known that you have a better eye for details than I do. To be honest, my eyesight is so bad I can't drive a car.
my eye sight is actually also not that good ;-)
Probably another point comes into play - the cherry from this perspective has a similar shape compared to the bushes in front of it. To me it almost looks like a "ghost version" of the shrubs in front of it, ready to fly around in the sky.
I am not claiming that this cherry is totally wrong, but I simply have some sort of earie/ghost like feeling when seeing this cherry.