CastleBaseMountain

[Henry Blewer]

This was rendered with supersample prepass. Render detail 0.7325 and AA 8. I have been playing around with lighting for a couple of weeks. (still some work to do on that)
Marc Gebhart's Generic Pines 1, and his Sugar Maples were used. I'll be adding more weeds and bushes later.

It's a bit noisy because I used quite a bit of jpeg compression.

[Henry Blewer]

I changed the lighting. Added another of Marc Gebhart's Generic Pines, and Shrub 6 from Walli's Dry Bush Pack. I also changed the clouds and the water. The wave settings are the same; I just changed the transparency, depth, and density colors.

[sjefen]

Hey njeneb,

Your scene has some potential, but it looks like those light green trees
are self illuminating or something. Maybe this is intentional, but I feel
it's a little distracting and unnatural.

Regards,
Terje

[Henry Blewer]

Yea, I agree. I'm going to change these. I will try changing the leaf image, or try a different tree. The lighting in the second render improved the pines quite a bit, but I may change these also.

Thanks for the input.

[Henry Blewer]

I found out what is going on with the leaves. The image map is quite bright. When high settings for the Enviro Light Surface is used, this gets illuminated. Fortunately, Marc included several different leaf images. New render, perhaps a finished one sometime before Friday.

[Themodman101]

The only thing I was gonna say was that the tree's that are not the pines were way too bright, but it sounds like you have that covered

Very nice and atmospheric. Are you using the default camera values?

[Henry Blewer]

No, the exposure of the camera was increased. Otherwise the image rendered much to dark.

[Themodman101]

Aaaah, okay.. Gotcha..looking forward to seeing a update

[Henry Blewer]

Here's the finished render. I did it with two crop renders. I had to adjust the lower part of the image contrast and brightness. If you look closely around the shoreline, there may be a line...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/njeneb/5622524869/sizes/o/in/photostream/

[Themodman101]

That is very pretty!! I love your colors, Autumn by the lake. Feels really good actually, I can almost feel the cool breeze blowing off of the water body

Great work!

[Dune]

If you look closely around the shoreline, there may be a line...

If you merge two images in Photoshop (or elsewhere) you'd better soft wipe away the edge. I always set the upper image to multiply, so I can exactly see where they overlap and take the 'wipe brush' to wipe away the edge, so it blends easier. Then set the layer to normal again of course.

[Henry Blewer]

I don't have a wipe function in Corel Paint X2. But I got it close enough for my large (better) monitor's capabilities. I used render detail in crop for both parts of the render. Normally this is not an issue. I wonder what the issue is with this project?