Iona (+.tgd)

[dandelO]

Fixed the links now, they'd been shortened with dots when I pasted them from somewhere else, Hetzen, sorry.

[Hetzen]

Don't apologize; I'm interested in what you've done. So thank you.

Neue Elbbrucke is a post layer of fog away from being perfect. And 'The Argonath' was the best of the crop I saw in that competition. Not too keen on WMA, but that's more down to the models you had to play with, and that the source probably has a lot more meaning to you than me. But it is technically accurate.

[EoinArmstrong]

It's not a bad match at all - great use of texture masking - the water's great!

[littlecannon]

Wow ... the Morning image is stunning.

[Sp34k]

Woaw, im simply stunned.. The blurish background gives the front rock a beautiful sharp effect..
Also I think that your water is really nice made and I would like to ask, how you managed to make it? My knowledge is still really basic, so im really impressed by the way you have made the water so clear and tropical..

Beautiful picture,
Mike

[dandelO]

I'm uploading the .tgd for anyone who wants a look. I've tidied up the nodes and labelled it clearly from my original. It's exactly the same .tgd settings that I used, just an incremental update with new node labels.

The rendered image you'll get is this...

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The rest is postwork.

[dandelO]

so im really impressed by the way you have made the water so clear and tropical

Oh, Jeez, Sp34k! You think Scotland's tropical?!

Wishfull thinking, although, the heat here of late is pretty unbearable at night, phew! (this is the only heat we get, mind, Scottish summer time. I'm grateful, but calm down, Mother Nature, how'm I meant to get to sleep in this? I'm not, I'll just sit and play with TG some more! )

The water part is really simple, the water is about 1m deep. I just make the transparency distance deeper than that(15m), with a very slight green colour that's barely discernable from white.
There is also my voronoi caustics layer on the ground beneath the water, blended by a PF shader, for incomplete coverage.

[Henry Blewer]

It's very convincing. Nice job.
We are have nice winters here in Binghamton, NY; thanks to global warming.

[domdib]

Many thanks for the TGD - a lovely image altogether. Makes me a bit homesick for the homeland  

Just out of curiosity - why no GI? Is it because there's relatively little shadow?

By the way, I hardly noticed them before, but the clouds are gorgeous.

[Sp34k]

DandelO, Thank you for making the tgd file available, I will try to rip things apart and see how you've managed to do this..
Well scotland is a very, very beautiful place, I haven't been there yet (hopefully 'soon', I will have to visit it before my hair turns grey), but are you also suffering from the heat? Here in Denmark it's pretty hard to breath aswell, and the nights, huh, it's like laying in a pool of sweat, yummi 

but your water looks really tropical I think.. I can't wait to see the settings you have used, eventhough you make it sound so easy   But I will take a look at it after I formate my computer, I was making a yuri rat and released it on my own pc, not that brilliant..

But thank you for providing the file, very generous of you..

Cheers,
Mike

[Tangled-Universe]

Thanks for sharing here Martin

Many thanks for the TGD - a lovely image altogether. Makes me a bit homesick for the homeland  

Just out of curiosity - why no GI? Is it because there's relatively little shadow?

By the way, I hardly noticed them before, but the clouds are gorgeous.

I'm pretty sure it's because of the rendertime, he can't render everything on his mum's machine

[Henry Blewer]

He's lucky that she does not charge him rent to use it. 
I'm sure the final image will be great!

[dandelO]

I'm pretty sure it's because of the rendertime, he can't render everything on his mum's machine

Correct, Martin. Everything has to be kept to a very minimum at the moment while I'm using this ol' PC.

I'm done with this scene now, can't be arsed to re-render with GI, even if I do get a new computer.
The raw render served me fine for what I needed, it looks kind of like the photo, enough that I could do some post-pro' to get it there, anyway. Done.

Glad you like the .tgd, folks. You can see just how much is postwork and how much is TG from comparing the first image in this thread and the above base render from TG.

On to something else now...

[aymenk2003]

Hi dandelO...
I noticed that you often use a Plane with water shader instead of using Lake ?? why ?
by the way I 've got a lot of tricks from your TGD ...
thanks a lot

[rcallicotte]

Nice imitation, dandelO.  Great idea, too.  I hadn't thought about mimicking a photo, but that must be very challenging.