Temple of Mist

[moodflow]

Hi all,

I've pretty much been in "research mode" over the past 6 months and have learned alot.  And I've been itching to put some of what I learned to practical use. 

So I spent some time setting up a scene, and using some of the clip files I've been assembling and testing over the past few months. 

This image was a blast to put together!  There are still some things I need to work on, but its all about having fun in the end anyway...

Native Res:  800x600
Quality:  0.8
Atmos samples:  64
Cloud samples:  196 (trying to avoid grain)
Render time:  121hr 41mn, spread over 4 cores  --->EDIT:  121hr 41mn combined, 30 hr per core.

The temple was modeled in Google Sketchup. 

All procedural - no image maps.

[Harvey Birdman]

121 hrs for 800 x 600.... yikes! Looks nice, though. I like the foreground rocks.

[dhavalmistry]

yea...the foreground rocks rocks.....

[moodflow]

Well that was 121 hours combined.  Only 30+ hours total.

[moodflow]

Yes, I spent some time dialing those rocks in.  I call them the "Pacific Grove" rocks.  They have that round cracky feel found there.

I've been working on the squared cracky rocks, but still not there yet - and not even sure how I'll pull those off.

Thanks for the compliments.   

[dhavalmistry]

are the displacements on the rocks done using image map like before???

[moodflow]

are the displacements on the rocks done using image map like before???

No, no image maps.  I try to stay away from those as much as possible, unless its absolutely mandatory.

[dhavalmistry]

wow...I want to see the node network for those rocks then....they are amazing!

[moodflow]

wow...I want to see the node network for those rocks then....they are amazing!

Thanks!  Those took a while to figure out.  I remember I did a post a few months back showing a sample of rocks I wanted to create procedurally, and we all tried to emulate it, but never got this far.  Here is the post:  http://forums.planetside.co.uk/index.php?topic=1939.0

Anyway, here is a snapshot of all the nodes.  Though there are alot of nodes, its actually a straight forward setup.

[dhavalmistry]

ohh...clever...using the same incrementing displacement technique using functions....very very clever....thanx for the nodes...

[Will]

nice mist.

[rcallicotte]

Oh, yeah, moodflow.  This is perfect.  My only wish is that it was poster size.   

[old_blaggard]

Great job!  Nothing to complain about here .

[Seth]

very very good job !!!
amazingly realistic !
bravo

[nvseal]

Superb work. Too bad it's not bigger.