Under Water

[bobbystahr]

My first fairly successful attempt...

[ares2101]

Very nice.  I've been meaning to experiment in this direction myself, I have something from one of Dandelo's public libraries sitting in a folder.

[Dune]

Nice one, Bobby. You should try soft shadows, that might enhance the image.

[bobbystahr]

Nice one, Bobby. You should try soft shadows, that might enhance the image.

Thanks Dune....I had considered that but I had an image shader in the stack that was supposed to put a caustic pattern on all the horizontal surfaces that didn't work from underwater like it does from above. I run it thru the Volume Colour and Density Tabs in the water shader which shows well from top down..sigh....
but doesn't show up from this angle....

[TheBadger]

Nice image, Bobby!
Haven't seen to much of this kind of scene. Is it harder or does it take longer to render, in general terms?

[bobbystahr]

Nice image, Bobby!
Haven't seen to much of this kind of scene. Is it harder or does it take longer to render, in general terms?

not really harder TB...just took a whole bunch of test renders. IIRC it was under 3 hours render time...I let it run over night and didn't note the actual time in the morning but I sleep in 4 hour bunches so it was less than 4 hours...If you wish, e mail me and I'll send either the project zipped if it's small enuff or put it up on sendSpace and send you a link...bstar@mts.net....any one else is welcome to as well.....