Orbital Couds (Version 2)

l.a. akira · September 29, 2007, 11:24:03 PM

fantastic

nvseal · September 29, 2007, 11:25:04 PM

I added a quick lens flare to compare the two.

dhavalmistry · September 29, 2007, 11:28:35 PM

I think the lens flare is too bright......takes away the attention....

efflux · September 30, 2007, 01:16:39 AM

Great work. It's fantastic to see more depth in the clouds at this lower altitude than you usually do. I've seen those lines before. In fact I think I saw a faint line in one of your previous renders. I don't know for sure what the problem is but yes, I'd guess it's GI.

RealUser · September 30, 2007, 06:58:12 AM

Man, that looks really cool and realistic. I would love to see a tutorial.

nvseal · September 30, 2007, 08:15:04 AM

Well, after rendering half of the image over night with no GI the lines still show up. Old_baggard, if you send me your email I'll send you the file and you can see if your version can fix any of these problems.

old_blaggard · September 30, 2007, 12:19:23 PM

Go ahead and zip it to palmcarp@yahoo.com.

sjefen · September 30, 2007, 03:51:10 PM

Your work is always great nvseal

l.a. akira · September 30, 2007, 06:53:52 PM

Quote from: nvseal on September 30, 2007, 08:15:04 AM
Well, after rendering half of the image over night with no GI the lines still show up. Old_baggard, if you send me your email I'll send you the file and you can see if your version can fix any of these problems.

I'm sure everyone here would like to help you fix the line problem.

old_blaggard · September 30, 2007, 07:47:10 PM

I got rid of the lines in the clouds but the rim of the atmosphere got some odd lines in it - I tweaked a couple of settings that will hopefully fix that.

nvseal · September 30, 2007, 11:15:58 PM

Great, what was the problem?

old_blaggard · September 30, 2007, 11:18:58 PM

Got it. The lines in the clouds were acceleration cache, as I suspected, and the little bands I was seeing in the sky remain unexplained - they were there and then they weren't anymore

. It will be done by tomorrow morning and I'll post it then

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nvseal · September 30, 2007, 11:20:43 PM

Great. Thanks a lot, I'll be looking forward to it.

Oshyan · October 01, 2007, 12:04:37 AM

This is fantastic! The mix of larger thunderhead-type clouds and other types is really excellent. Well done. I would have guessed the problem with the lines was the acceleration cache. It might be helpful for us at Planetside to have this scene for debugging, so if you'd like to email it to me that would be great. oshyan AT planetside.co.uk

Thanks!

- Oshyan

old_blaggard · October 01, 2007, 02:45:11 PM

Here you go! This is truly a fantastic render.