Another sunset

Clay · July 11, 2015, 05:27:50 PM

So getting some ideas from Cocateho, I decided to do a lil sunset, turned out like crap but its a start LOL!

Stranded · July 11, 2015, 05:44:41 PM

I like it, though I would like to see some thin clouds in front of the sun to give it some depth. I think the clouds overall look really good.

TheBadger · July 11, 2015, 10:08:11 PM

I like it. I would just do some post work between a .tiff and an .exr to add some highlights to the terrain.

Clay · July 12, 2015, 08:33:00 PM

So been tweaking out the render, work to do on the terrain, but the cloud study was what I was mainly after WHEEEEEeee!

Stranded · July 12, 2015, 11:22:00 PM

Dig it.... nice job!

Clay · July 12, 2015, 11:26:44 PM

Quote from: Stranded on July 12, 2015, 11:22:00 PM
Dig it.... nice job!

ehh its still crappy in my eyes but thanks, will make it better.

Clay · July 13, 2015, 03:50:27 PM

Aint sure what happend here, just changed the cloud a bit and the terrain, then I get this big white dot which I'm assuming is the sun, and then the light isn't coming through on the ground etc. here's the file too, maybe I overlooked something.

bobbystahr · July 13, 2015, 05:50:32 PM

Quote from: Clay on July 13, 2015, 03:50:27 PM
Aint sure what happend here, just changed the cloud a bit and the terrain, then I get this big white dot which I'm assuming is the sun, and then the light isn't coming through on the ground etc. here's the file too, maybe I overlooked something.

Un click visible disc in the Sun and and in Atmosphere> quality click the Receive shadows from surfaces. Doing a test and the dot is gone

Clay · July 13, 2015, 07:13:58 PM

Whats funny is, I re opend the file and it rendered fine without the dot etc, friggin weird LOL!

TheBadger · July 14, 2015, 01:10:33 AM

you did not save the change.

Clay · July 14, 2015, 03:22:36 AM

Quote from: TheBadger on July 14, 2015, 01:10:33 AM
you did not save the change.

Ummm..I had to have saved the change if I "re-opened " the file LOL.

TheBadger · July 14, 2015, 04:02:48 AM

You are saying you can't close a file without saving it?

Clay · July 14, 2015, 01:05:53 PM

Quote from: TheBadger on July 14, 2015, 04:02:48 AM
You are saying you can't close a file without saving it?

Ohh, no I saved the file then re-opened it and it was fine.

TheBadger · July 14, 2015, 01:13:41 PM

OK, nice image regardless.

Cocateho · July 16, 2015, 02:18:26 PM

Good start! Not sure what your vision is for what type of clouds you are looking for... in any case on thing I do that seems to make clouds a bit more realistic is masking the cloud pattern by one or two power fractals. You can play around with the size and pattern all you want and really get some different "looks" than just the singular cloud density fractal. To me perlin billows tends to look the most realistic, but with the right tweaking anything could work really, just depends what you're looking for. I don't have access to my main computer I that I've got all my terragen stuff on so I can't take a look but I'm pretty sure in my sunset picture I had the clouds masked by a perlin billows PF, with the scale a bit larger that than of the clouds... but you can keep masking the fractals for multiple levels of variation. Not sure if anyone else does this or not? Looks like it in some images I've seen.