Sailing

[Hannes]

No sci fi stuff this time. I've been working on this for some time now to get everything like I want it to be. Sea foam patterns by Oleg.
This is rendered with TG4 Alpha, so the clouds are the new ones and there is a subtle star burst effect.

[DocCharly65]

Great scene, Hannes. Great water, great foam, great vessel, great mood.
I am very impressed from the light shining through the sails.

Do you think it makes sense to add a little blur to the birds? Something seems wrong with them and think it's the missing movement.

[Hannes]

Do you think it makes sense to add a little blur to the birds? Something seems wrong with them and think it's the missing movement.

Nice idea. I'll see if I can apply some natural looking fake motion blur to them.

[mhaze]

Wonderful scene, very atmospheric with a great sea and the foam around the boat is spot on. 

[Dune]

Terrific scene!! I love the light, and everything else. Except for the birds; they look like parakeets (at sea?). Some blur would do them good  but I wonder how you would go about that...

[masonspappy]

That's impressive!  The effort you put into it really shows.
(But also think the birds need to look more like seagulls).,

[AP]

Almost like a scene straight out of a movie. The new clouds and sun glare give it some serious realism.

[Hannes]

Thanks!!
OK, I rendered a mask for the birds and tried to create some fake motion blur using Photoshop's smudge tool.
I have an object sequence of the birds, but since TG doesn't support object motion blur, this doesn't help.
And yes, maybe seagulls would be better. Are there any seagull models in the file section? Couldn't find any...

[ajcgi]

This is fantastic! I've worked with oceans a lot but never in Terragen. Great job with that. Ships make an excellent 3d subject. A while ago I spent 6 weeks rigging simulated... rigging for a ship. That's the longest I've ever gone without hitting a render button.
I'd imagine a gull would be easy enough to get hold of on Turbosquid or similar.

[AP]

Thanks!!
OK, I rendered a mask for the birds and tried to create some fake motion blur using Photoshop's smudge tool.
I have an object sequence of the birds, but since TG doesn't support object motion blur, this doesn't help.
And yes, maybe seagulls would be better. Are there any seagull models in the file section? Couldn't find any...

I thought there might have been an old thread using a technique within Terragen that was used to blur Airplane Props or Helicopter Blades?

Also, I found a Seagull along with some other Birds. However, it is 3dsmax format only.

http://www.3dmodelfree.com/models/22578-0.htm

[Hannes]

I thought there might have been an old thread using a technique within Terragen that was used to blur Airplane Props or Helicopter Blades?

Also, I found a Seagull along with some other Birds. However, it is 3dsmax format only.

http://www.3dmodelfree.com/models/22578-0.htm

Thanks for the link, I'll take a look. The technique you're mentioning doesn't really work here since each bird has to be blurred differently.

[AP]

Something to do with the object angles being all different per object?

[zaxxon]

An absolutely beautiful render Hannes! The V3 clouds are really fine and the light is gorgeous. Oleg's sea foam is nicely used, too bad he's not using much TG these days.

[Hannes]

Thanks!!
I downloaded the seagull, imported it into 3ds Max, applied some better textures and posed the wings (simply by moving and rotating some vertices) to get four different flying poses.
I then created four populations (free floating) at different altitudes. Here is a cropped test render

[Kadri]

First class render Hannes. I love it

Hannes, i think we talked about this earlier but this plugin can be handy sometimes.
A little on the expensive side but it helped me on some projects.
http://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/