First successful TG 2.5 render

[Jo Kariboo]

Beautifull !!!

[otakar]

Now, are you sure you posted the actual render and not the reference photo? Because I sure as heck can't tell. 

[masonspappy]

Photoreal. Outstanding!

[Gannaingh]

Beautiful render!

[4nt]

very nice!!
how long did TG render @ this pic??

cheers

[Henry Blewer]

I missed this one... This looks like a satellite image. Excellent!

[DannyG]

Thats a stunner, awesome

[gregtee]

very nice!!
how long did TG render @ this pic??

cheers

Quite reasonable. As I recall I got the render times down to less than 10 minutes a frame, enough to where I was able to make a tilt up animation. 

[nbk2]

Great

[gregtee]

Thanks everyone! 

[inkydigit]

Very impressive Greg... Wow, don't know how I missed this !!

[stgermain]

Absolutely fabulous!

[Hannes]

Incredible! You used an image map for the clouds, didn't you?

[gregtee]

Yes.  I found a nice hurricane image on the NASA site and pumped it through the cloud density input. 

It -only- took me a week and a half to figure out after numerous failures, but it worked in the end.  The main thing that kept tripping me up was how dependent the final cloud quality was on the resolution of the source image.  Once that lightbulb went off, the rest was easy.

Greg

[efflux]

Very cool. These sorts of high POVs of clouds are one of TG2s great strengths.