Rakka

[Mor]

Got inspired after teaching basics of TG2 to my friend and he wanted to make a landscape from northern Finland. I decided to make one too and here's the result.

Objects used:
- Walli's pines
- Walli's dry grasses
- Walli's dry bushes
- Marc Gebharts winter birches

1920x1080 Detail 0.8, AA 6, GI 2/3, RT atmo on and super sample prepass on. Rendertime: 45min

C&C welcome


(Put 'rakka' on google image search)

[Kadri]

I am not sure about the rocks in the left lower part but i like this

[TheBadger]

Love the marsh around the lake object/river! Could work on the light a bit, its good, but I feel like from where I am as viewer I should be able to see better... ? Then again, the light on the rocks seams bright enough. Maybe its the compression of the jpg, or is it a small render or something? Anyway, lighting is tough even with a film camera.

[Dune]

I think it's due to the very low light, like a fall Finland scene. A larger version posted would be nice. I like the way you see the water 'meandering' to the distance, and the calmness of the scene.

[TheBadger]

Yeah your right dune, a larger render would make everything clearer. Its a good shot, worth a longer render time.

[Saurav]

Great render, definitely needs to be rendered larger.

[inkydigit]

excellent shot...do you have the link for the full size render?
my mistake, clicked on thumb, right clicked view image...saw in full 1920*1080...very nice!

[Mor]

Thanks!

Dune is right about light, the sun is quite low (elevation 18). I'll tweak the stones a bit as they became little too smooth. Any suggestions for the lighting or should I just test the current one with a huge version?

[FrankB]

Thanks!

Dune is right about light, the sun is quite low (elevation 18). I'll tweak the stones a bit as they became little too smooth. Any suggestions for the lighting or should I just test the current one with a huge version?

I was just going to say the stones need some work and probably some color variations.
Also I would up the exposure two tads.

It would be a great step to have some really fancy and detailed, feathering cirrus going on in the sky, too
the latter ain't easy.

Cheers,
Frank

[Mor]

Here's new version with most work on stones and I'm happy with them now. Also little more exposure and red sky decay. Same size, same detail, same rendertime 47min

It would be a great step to have some really fancy and detailed, feathering cirrus going on in the sky, too
the latter ain't easy.

Cheers,
Frank

I'll give it a try. Any suggestions how?


http://www.melnworld.com/tg2/rakka2.jpg

[mhaze]

Much better, for some reason the trees bother me perhaps another specis or greater variation in size. I really like this render worth going the extra mile.

Mick

[Henry Blewer]

Some more variation of tree species would be very good in this. This is coming along great.

[Mor]

Here's what I would call final version, at least it is very difficult for me to improve it. Tree populations had a little problem ("population outside area") and therefore only one kind of trees were close to camera and others stayed nicely within defined borders. Now there is 4 different populations of pines and 2 populations of winter birches.

Also added dandelO's cirrocumulus clouds.


http://www.melnworld.com/tg2/rakka3.jpg

What you think? Is it ready for a larger render?

[Luc]

Nice composition and integration of libraries (trees, clouds)

luc

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is good not make different I think no need for larger to is good like this is