Alpine Lake (FINAL)

Oshyan · November 17, 2009, 10:11:06 PM

Quote from: njeneb on November 17, 2009, 07:43:10 AM
We all look forward to the next version.

Side Note: Smoother AA filter? I detect a hint of the future.

The AA filter options are already available - Cubic, Mitchell Netravali, etc.

- Oshyan

JimB · November 18, 2009, 05:57:15 AM

Well, I did use Catmull-Rom. You see, someone mentioned the previous one being too soft.....

Hannes · November 18, 2009, 07:20:27 AM

Fantastic! Maybe the colour of the rock could be a little darker with a power fractal as colour function.

JimB · November 19, 2009, 05:31:00 AM

Final version posted.

Dune · November 19, 2009, 06:14:44 AM

It's absolutely staggeringly fantastic, and I'm not exaggerating. Great sky now, and the lighting is superb. One question; what did you mean by the now crossed out sentence: The darker lighting towards the bottom of the terain is done using a cloud layer without any noise function, clipped behind the camera (

), inverted profile and a very soft bottom.

---Dune

JimB · November 19, 2009, 06:18:37 AM

I took it out and went with the natural lighting instead, given the lower sun. Clearly it's confusing, so I've deleted that bit from the original post altogether.

Thanks.

Actually, I just thought of something and might re-render with one tweak

domdib · November 19, 2009, 07:43:12 AM

Fantastically staggering

I agree that the lighting is superb. Like Dune, I was puzzled what you meant by "clipped behind the camera". Did you push it there with a Distance shader?

FrankB · November 19, 2009, 09:51:45 AM

amazing, Jim. Looks fantastic!

Seth · November 19, 2009, 10:55:55 AM

very very good !

littlecannon · November 19, 2009, 12:40:57 PM

That is one beautiful image... I see you went with Ryan's suggestion of lighting. Very nice work!
Simon.

sjefen · November 19, 2009, 06:21:39 PM

There are some strange patterns in the clouds just above the mountains to the right, but other than that it is just spectacular.
Could you do a extra big render of this one?

- Terje

JimB · November 19, 2009, 06:38:08 PM

I'm actually re-rendering now with some extra quality settings and a GI change (taking much longer to render, though). So far it's looking much better, so I'm un-finalling the final. I know what you mean about the cloud patterns, but I personally like them. I'll post the 2k version next.

Ta.

Henry Blewer · November 19, 2009, 06:40:09 PM

How do you improve this one? I'll have to wait and see, but I am very curious...

Oshyan · November 19, 2009, 11:05:49 PM

The update is definitely an improvement, looking very nice, but I find it all a bit underexposed. Granted the sun shining on the mountain is pretty bright, but everything else, including the sky, seems a bit dull or underexposed. Probably something easily fixed in post, especially if you're saving to EXR - maybe a bit of tone mapping.

- Oshyan

JimB · November 20, 2009, 06:33:50 AM

Okay, that's definitely it. Done.

Thanks to Ryan for the lower sun suggestion. Also to Matt Howarth for his Mackerel Sky clip file which I modified, but it gave the basis for the cirrhus.