DNW Beauty - Final Version

FrankB · April 30, 2009, 11:32:24 AM

Hi,

here's a close-up on Walli's DNW flower. Thank you Walli, great little plant for close-up. I admire how much detail you have crammed into the leaves in particular!
Using the NWDA fake stone tech pack, and Walli's grass and the DNW plant. "Depth of Field" mask rendered in TG2 using TU's tutorial (http://nwda.webnode.com/news/creating-a-dof-in-tg2/ ). Some touch ups on levels and colors in GIMP.

Hope you like it. Comments are welcome as always

Cheers,
Frank

[EDIT] New DOF Mask applied

cyphyr · April 30, 2009, 11:41:01 AM

The flower is great, the detail is great, the stones are great too ... but whats happening with the DOF around the flower stem and petals? Also looks like the shadows on the leaves are part of the image map, rather than generated by the displacement and lighting.
Sorry to be picky ....

richard

RArcher · April 30, 2009, 11:48:07 AM

The details are incredible! But Richard is right there is something odd about your DOF mask. Did you perhaps render the depth mask at lower detail levels?

FrankB · April 30, 2009, 12:10:43 PM

hm.. yeah, the DOF mask didn't match the render 100%. For speed reasons, I have removed all the little stones for rendering the DOF mask. Apparently (I should have known that), this has altered the ground level slightly, so the plant were rendered a few millimeters lower.

I fixed it in post as good as I could (see image in first post again), but I will render a more accurate DOF mask later on.

Cheers,
Frank

buzzzzz1 · April 30, 2009, 01:18:46 PM

Aside from the DOF problem, This is really impressive Frank. Get that addressed and it's a great illustration of TG's capabilities.

Walli · April 30, 2009, 01:58:19 PM

wow, great render!
I think I have to get some of those packs as they really get some nice stuff out of TG.

best,
Walli

Martchi · April 30, 2009, 02:10:14 PM

Wonderful work, Bravo Franck!

inkydigit · April 30, 2009, 04:02:51 PM

lots of good things happening here!

reck · April 30, 2009, 04:12:36 PM

Oh no, why is my DNW flower not beautiful?

Just loaded and rendered and this is what I got, do I need to fix something?

Walli · April 30, 2009, 04:47:06 PM

hmm, what were your render settings?

tumasch · April 30, 2009, 04:50:10 PM

Very nice, Frank - and thanks Walli for this detailed plant. I don't know what DOF means, though (must I?).

matrix2003 · April 30, 2009, 05:06:21 PM

Depth Of Field (cheers)

reck · April 30, 2009, 05:13:24 PM

Quote from: Walli on April 30, 2009, 04:47:06 PM
hmm, what were your render settings?

Detail: 0.5
AA: 0.5

Everything else default. Didn't do anything with the object at all. I've tried the first and second object and both have the white colour problem.

tumasch · April 30, 2009, 05:14:59 PM

Quote from: matrix2003 on April 30, 2009, 05:06:21 PM
Depth Of Field (cheers)

Thanks a bunch. Have to get used to these abbreviations. :-)

RArcher · April 30, 2009, 05:19:28 PM

Reck: I can't see any reason why you would lower the AA to anything less than 3. If you have the full version I would suggest that an AA of 6 would be a typical minimum to use on any scene. Generally when it comes to vegetation the more AA the better it will look unless you are going for a certain look.