My last (not latest) surf scene

latego · July 27, 2009, 06:46:28 AM

Well, the best renders you see on CGTalk look really like photographs... and photographs are starting to look like too clean renders

Bye!!!

P.S.: I remember a Luc Biano glacier study done with TG2 Alpha which was just perfect.

efflux · July 27, 2009, 11:24:29 PM

The wet rocks are really cool. Water is good as well.

Dune · July 28, 2009, 04:27:23 AM

Here's an update. I added a beach and some grasses. The grasses were placed with an inverted blend by shader from the rocks, to get it growing just between the rocks, but at some points it grew right through it (you cannot kill weeds obviously). I wouldn't know how to avoid that. Dimished the displacement of the larger waves somewhat.

For comparison I added one of the earlier stages of this experiment, where you can better see the wavestructure.

---Dune

Henry Blewer · July 28, 2009, 08:05:19 AM

I think these look great. I would have kept rendering the partial breakers image. It may be an experiment, but it really went well!

efflux · July 28, 2009, 12:28:18 PM

This is cool. Water looks better. The texture on the rocks is great. It looks like algae or seaweed. Maybe if you had the higher rocks with less green it could look even better.

Zylot · July 28, 2009, 01:16:50 PM

Aren't they both photos?!

Dune · July 28, 2009, 04:02:53 PM

I agree about the higher rocks. I might even put something else there, real rocks (not fake ones), another colour rocks, or some bushes. I might give it another go.

Seth · July 29, 2009, 12:56:05 PM

last one is very nice !

jo · July 29, 2009, 10:36:18 PM

Hi Dune,

I think that water is starting to look really really good.

Regards,

Jo

Tangled-Universe · July 30, 2009, 04:29:24 AM

Wow man, I think this is going to look really awesome once you have finished polishing and rendering it.
Are you going to write a tutorial about this?

Martin

Dune · July 30, 2009, 10:12:35 AM

Well, I might do that or give some vague hints, rather than just donate my tgd. It cost me quite some full days sweating over it to get to grips with this matter, so I'm a bit reluctant. I do have another coming up soon, a cascading river running downhill. Complicated to get it done, not perfect at all, but promising.

---Dune

Tangled-Universe · July 30, 2009, 10:58:42 AM

Quote from: Dune on July 30, 2009, 10:12:35 AM
Well, I might do that or give some vague hints, rather than just donate my tgd. It cost me quite some full days sweating over it to get to grips with this matter, so I'm a bit reluctant. I do have another coming up soon, a cascading river running downhill. Complicated to get it done, not perfect at all, but promising.

---Dune

There's a huge difference between giving vague hints and a tutorial

Also, there's a huge difference between sharing your tgd and a tutorial

I understand a bit what you mean though. The approach is probably so specific that it is quite impossible to explain it without sharing the whole lot of it.
But please, give it some thought, I think many are very interested

Martin

Seth · July 30, 2009, 01:00:30 PM

Quote from: Tangled-Universe on July 30, 2009, 10:58:42 AM

Also, there's a huge difference between sharing your tgd and a tutorial (...) But please, give it some thought, I think many are very interested

Martin

Agree

Naoo · August 02, 2009, 10:32:43 AM

Hi

Your water ist great!

ciao
Naoo

Dune · August 13, 2009, 01:58:57 PM

As promised a little tutorial about my method to get this image. I know it's not perfect, I am not very happy with the grass growing out of some rocks, but I don't have the time to play about too much. At least the upper rocks are covered with a mix of homemade greenery now.

Good luck using it, and any feedback is much appreciated!

---Dune